Dr. Andy Galpin

Well, you're doing something different now than you were doing the last eight weeks.

And so, yeah, I would actually strongly encourage you to treat your practice races differently.

like your real race so do your pre mid post fueling strategies in preparation for that so then when you show up your body's like yep this is exactly what we do this is exactly how we handle people for the super bowl for world championship events for the olympics you try to make those big events where they're so incredibly important and there's so much pressure and stress and that

You wanna make it feel like a normal practice.

This is just what we do.

So while most of you aren't gonna be on that stage, I get it.

When you go run that first 5K, like that's still gonna be a really, you're gonna be really excited and it's gonna feel like that.

Your body is gonna know, wow, this is something I care about.

Or you go and you finally get to surf that wave that you've been wanting to do or whatever the thing is, you go on that hunt that you've been wanting to go after.

the thing you can control the most is making your day feel like you've been training.

It's a normal process.

This is what we do.

This is how we warm up.

This is the thing we take.

The more you can do that, the more consistent a response you're going to have, the more predictable response.

And that way you can check out of those things and let your body just do what it's been ingrained to do.

So yeah, I would definitely recommend that post-carbohydrate for that individual simply for those purposes.

yeah it is it is everything from i bonked what happened i felt flat what we like everything went away what's going on to now i hit the pr like if you play with these things correctly you should feel your best on competition day there's some of our sports that this is not possible because of weight cutting and other dumb things we have to do but for the most part this is the stuff that matters this is the like there's nothing worse than when you pr a week after competition

Like there's just nothing worse, right?

You're like, all right, PR the week before or the week after.