Guides & Insight

A collection of guides, tutorials, and expert insights designed to help you learn new strategies, solve problems and stay updated with the latest knowledge and trends.
The Best Supplements For Cyclists Guides

The Best Supplements For Cyclists

Whether you're riding long endurance miles, racing on the road or tackling gravel and mountain bike trails, your body needs the righ...

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Fuelling For Hard Enduro Guides

Fuelling For Hard Enduro

Optimising carbohydrate intake, hydration, blood supply and acidic buffering capacity allows riders to maintain optimal performance ...

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Hydro Fizz Vs Intra Carb Mix Guides

Hydro Fizz Vs Intra Carb Mix

Hydration and fuelling are two of the most important factors for endurance performance. But many athletes are unsure whether they sh...

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Electrolyte Timing Guides

Electrolyte Timing

Improve performance, reduce cramps and support recovery with electrolytes. If you’ve ever felt fatigued, sluggish, or experienced mu...

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Potassium Explained Guides

Potassium Explained

Potassium is an essential mineral and electrolyte that plays a crucial role in many functions throughout the body. It helps regulate...

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Sodium Explained Guides

Sodium Explained

Sodium is an essential mineral and electrolyte that plays a key role in fluid balance, nerve signalling and muscle contraction. It a...

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Why Train Your Gut? Guides

Why Train Your Gut?

As action sports athletes, we carefully plan our training, monitoring workload, intensity and recovery, yet one critical factor is o...

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Why Use Caffeine? Caffeine

Why Use Caffeine?

Caffeine is a popular supplement among athletes in a variety of sports including high-intensity motorsports like motocross, enduro a...

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When To Use Electrolyte Capsules? Guides

When To Use Electrolyte Capsules?

When training or racing for long periods, maintaining proper hydration is essential for both performance and recovery. For athletes ...

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Post Exercise Recovery Explained Guides

Post Exercise Recovery Explained

Learn the three R’s of post exercise recovery - repair, refuel & rehydrate. Discover how a recovery shake like Reload Recovery M...

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What Is Beta Alanine? Beta Alanine

What Is Beta Alanine?

In the world of Action Sports, whether it's long-distance cycling, trail running, triathlon or mountain biking - performance often c...

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Creatine Monohydrate For Action Sports Creatine

Creatine Monohydrate For Action Sports

Creatine monohydrate is one of the most extensively studied and widely used sports supplements on the market and for good reason. Of...

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Arm Pump Guides

Arm Pump

Arm pump is one of the most talked about exercise induced conditions associated with two wheeled action sports. But what actually is...

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Carbohydrate Fuelling Guides

Carbohydrate Fuelling

If you have read our article covering the importance of carbohydrates, you will know that glycogen is essentially the storage of exc...

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Let's Talk Carbohydrates Guides

Let's Talk Carbohydrates

Carbohydrates are one of three main macronutrient groups found in foods. Despite often being falsely portrayed as the 'bad guy' to t...

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Calculating Sweat Rates Guides

Calculating Sweat Rates

Sweat rates are highly variable between athletes and can also vary for any given individual (due to changes in conditions, such as a...

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Hydration Hydration

Hydration

Essentially, as we become dehydrated our heart rate increases, muscle glycogen depletion rates increase and body temperature rises. ...

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No Mouthwash On Race Day Guides

No Mouthwash On Race Day

If you’re using nitrate supplements to increase your nitric oxide levels on race day, using antibacterial mouthwash can have a detri...

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Pre-Load Nitrate Blend Guides

Pre-Load Nitrate Blend

It was approximately 8 years ago that I first witnessed the use of nitrate supplements within the Action Sports industry. I remember...

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Nitrates & Nitric Oxide Guides

Nitrates & Nitric Oxide

It is now recognised that ingested nitrate can be converted to nitric oxide in the body, as a result supplements and food powders de...

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