We Tested Two Breakfasts - Which One Made Us Fly?
208K views · Nov 16, 2025 · Sports
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@gcn · 10 months ago · pinned
What's your go-to pre-ride breakfast, and have you ever noticed a big difference in performance based on what you eat? Let us know in the comments!
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@andrewmcalister3462 · 10 months ago
Conor wrote this episode just so that he could expense his breakfasts on GCN’s tab. 🍴😂
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@burkeculligan4756 · 8 months ago
I belive this is more a test of what you ate for dinner vs. what you ate for breakfast... your over night glycogen stores are more likely being tested compared to meals eaten 20-40 mins prior to the "test"
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@bennymohr257 · 10 months ago
I don't think a 10 minute ride is telling a lot about the differences. At least an hour, better two hours.
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@tonyroma9305 · 10 months ago
That's all between your ears. That food hasn't even begun to be digested.
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@Ad-my9kg · 10 months ago
A sub 11 minute effort. I was expecting a 30 to 60 minute effort, at least. Dr Shepherd talks about fuelling for rides in terms of hours, not minutes. I suggest you get him to discuss the impact of fuelling for a ten minute effort to make this of any use.
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@atb1332 · 10 months ago
can you also do "light or no dinner but abundant breakfast" and "light or no breakfast but abundant dinner"? given my job and habits i often end up in one of those two scenarios and find the second to be way better, but would like to hear the take of the experts on this.
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@ironrod1979 · 10 months ago
With all these second breakfasts Conor must be the tallest ever hobbit.
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@LJBrookes-PDC · 10 months ago (edited)
I honestly don't understand how you can test this over a short sub 10 minute ride, I'm not even warmed up after 10 minutes, no matter how fast I'm going.
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@andrewupson2987 · 8 months ago
I'd like to see a 2hr ride tested in a carb based state, and again in a fully keto adapted state.
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@StephenRussell-c8v · 10 months ago
I think a much more interesting test would be to do an eight day test where an assessment of weight, muscle mass, vo2 max and peak power was made at the beginning of the session day 0 for two riders. Both would do a training week of one day on one off training, 1 hour effort AM three 5min max efforts separated by 15 mins mid day, two hour zone 2 early evening on days 1,3,5 and 7. Day 8 second assessment. Each rider has an alternate 80/20 carb protein, protein carb diet. But they are staggered so one rider is on proteins mainly on training days and the other on carbs. That gives a sequential assessment of the training performance and a development outcome at the end. Total calories proportionate to body mass.
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@StephenRussell-c8v · 10 months ago
Have you noticed how many of Connor’s challenges and tests involve eating, Dan may train on the companies time but it seems Connor eats on the company dime. 😂😂😂
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