Eating Breakfast Like the Vintage Cycling Greats Eddy Merckx and Fausto Coppi. Protein or Carbs??
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- Joe tries a high protein, meat filled breakfast while I eat whole grains. Which one of us will feel better on our retro bike ride? Another highly unscientific experiment!
Photo credit:JD Noske (Anefo)
Music: Saving the World/Parisian Cafe/Seaside Piazza by Aaron Kenny
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That food menu outcome was literally opposite of what I suspected it would be!
Never been an athlete here, but so do love my recumbent trikes.
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Glad you enjoyed it, Gary! I'm just glad Joe was the one that had to eat all that heavy meat for breakfast. :)
This is a very sweet and cool video. I really enjoyed it!
Thanks very much! It was a fun one to shoot. :)
Fabulous video with super scenery and music. You guys have the best vintage jerseys and riding caps!. I’m a purely granola , shredded wheat , organic flax seed and fistful of berries guy and OJ for breakfast every morning. Eating the heavy meat and cheese stuff just just work for me and I don’t see it as being too healthy in the long run. Thanks for a super video. I’m sticking to my two Catrikes almost exclusively now as the 2 wheel recumbent and road bike scare the heck out of me now. Any update on the vintage wool jerseys? Best wishes. Mark
Thanks Mark! We have about 8 people interested so far, but we're going to need more folks to start bringing the price down. Yep, the thought of eating all that heavy stuff in the morning was too much for me. Glad Joe had to do it. :) My poor two wheeled recumbents are gathering dust as I mostly switch between my trike and the road bike.
Ick … ham? Do you have kosher? Cereal? From a box with little animals on it? Give me coffee & a bagel with a smer lol … a nice video.
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Hi Rob! I eat bagels with cream cheese twice a week at work while downing massive amounts of coffee to stay awake, so on my bike ride days it's cereal. :)
Haha in Eddy Merckx - La Course en Tete (1974) it shows him eating ham/cheese or steak/cheese sliders not large portions. This is smart to make smaller size to better control the volume of food. Bon Apetite! Also, you should check out “Stars and Watercarriers” video on YT. It’s my favorite cycling video,great footage of Merckx and the beautiful Dolemites!
Thanks, CFK! I'll check it out!
If I ate that type of breakfast (steak etc) I would be revisiting it very soon on the ride! I can only handle the little bowl of oatmeal.
LOL! Yep, I usually just have a bowl of oatmeal or cereal.
Carbohydrates are rocket fuel. Fat and protein are diesel. One's for racing, the other is great for endurance. Of course, what your body is accustomed to and your chemistry will make a difference.
Thanks very much for the insight, Jak! Makes sense to me!
I like your water bottle carrier, looks very easy to reach, classy. I also eat granola and slice of bread on my 31 miles bike ride but I always supplement it with a bar , it sustains me until I’m done. Bike rides are not always the same, someday I felt like Superman but one day it seems I run out of my kryptonite and bonk.😛😛😛
I have the same issues, Harold. It's strange how you can go out for a ride on some days and feel great, while on other days, your legs can feel like two hams, and yep, on some days, that bonk is just around the corner. I guess all we can do is try to eat right and hope for the best. :)
I believe Merckx would load up on pasta the night before races just as your partner did. Maybe Merckx figured he'd be fueled by dinner in the beginning of the race, then the 'protein' breakfast would fuel his spent muscles at the end of the race, acting as a 'steroid' to 'recondition' his worn leg muscles. Maybe Landis was using Merckx's dietary strategy on stage 17 of the '06 Tour? I think Merckx also figured eating lots of protein for breakfast would combat 'bonking' when his carbs were spent. Brilliant dietary strategy. It'd be cool if you could also get the recipe for the 'groul bars' that Bernard Hinault said were added to the musettes. From how Hinault described them, they sound very close to 'Clif Bars' in texture and taste. I think Hinault said they're made as a 'sticky groul' with granola, raisons, honey, outmeal and various nuts and were wrapped into 'small bricks' in wax paper. It'd be awesome to know the recipe cause I'd make those bars and keep a few in my jersey pockets for long rides. I bet they work better than modern energy bars.
I’ll see if I can dig up some info on those bars MOT! They do sound something like Cliff bars. Bernard was ahead of his time and knew you had to fuel up right if you were to have enough strength to punch out protesters getting in the way of your race. :)
Previous day carb loading is real. Pasta, rice, potatoes, and beans (for fiber) are my dinner choice the evening before a long or hard ride. Breakfast is a balance of protein, carbs, fat, and of course, strong coffee.
Great video.!
Love reading cycling history on the great riders.
Have you read the book "Road to Valour?" The book is based on the found diaries of Gino Bartali during
Second World War..
All the best.STEEL IS REAL .
Hey, Dino! No, I haven’t read it, but I will now! :)
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After having read it, PLEASE review that book for your audience!
Adding a referenced good book, to BOTH your historical knowledge, AND to your known video capability, OH, YEAH!
Could be the ultimate cycling video story on the Internet!!!
You have already done so before!
@@garyseckel295 I'll see what we can do, Gary! :)
I prefer the Merckx diet. He's still alive while Coppi died of malaria at age 40. I wonder how big of a role Belgian beer played in Merckx's success as a rider...
I'll bet if you asked him, he'd say plenty! :)
@@bikestrikesrazors Now that's my kind of athlete!
@@taiwan1895 I think Eddy had a lot of fun. :)
Always the same misunderstanding by our american friends. Having the biggest palmares and racing only vs average ordinary rivals as Merckx in his era does not make of him the greatest of all times, but just the cyclist with the major amount of victories. Racing vs the best champs in the best era of cycling history being the legend leading them all and writing the most beautifil pages of this sport , showing an incredible class &style at same time makes of Fausto Coppi the greatest of all times. Between Coppi and Metckx there's at least 1 ctg of difference .
Thanks for watching and thanks for the input, Carlo! It's much appreciated!
Hi guys! You always find a way to make your videos entertaining and informative. Rich, I think if you had used whole milk to boost the fat and calories it may have sustained you longer. Overall it appears you both exercise very good portion control, something I need to practice. Back in the 70’s I got to ride a Sears bike similar (appearance only) to the bikes you rode. There’s something about that era of bikes that I’ve always enjoyed even more than my more modern diamond frame. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Dan! Yep, that fat free milk is basically white water. My portion control at breakfast is great, not so much at lunch/dinner. :) I think the weight of the older bikes gives them a more solid feel. You do pay the price on the hills though. :)
I like vintage steel bikes -- a lot -- and I get wearing vintage kit to bolster the vintage vibe. But you're also wearing more or less modern helmets and using a modern cycling computer, so how do those things fit the vintage vibe? From my perspective, one need not wear uncomfortable woolen clothing or use toe clips and straps to enjoy riding a vintage steel bike.
As for the breakfast menu , I'm not at all surprised by the outcome, but it's of course a very anecdotal, not at all scientific exercise. I know if I breakfast on just carbs I'm going to be rubber legged by mid morning. If I don't know when lunch will be, I take in some protein and fat for breakfast.
Hey, Ranger Smith! You are absolutely correct that you need not wear vintage clothes etc to enjoy a vintage bike, and I know lots of vintage riders that don’t. I personally enjoy being as period correct as possible, but I’m a bit of a nut. I only wear helmets that date to the 1980’s, and while I do use a Garmin, I use a tiny one that’s about the size of an old Cateye computer. Again, I’m a bit extreme and even when I meet up with other local vintage riders, most don’t go to the extremes that I do (again, I’m a bit of a nut). Thanks for watching!
I would be interested in the time interval between meal and ride. Also, I would like to see a low carb diet for a week with a high carb meal 12 hours before a major event or effort. Just a thought...
Hey, Evan! We ate about three hours before riding, so that should've been enough time for at least some digestion to take place. A low carb week followed by carbo-loading before a big ride would be interesting, but I don't think I could do a low-carb week. :)
@@bikestrikesrazors I agree, I never met a pasta dish I didn't like. Three hours seems about right. Your meals were not too heavy and laden with fat.
fat free milk?!?!?...BLASPHEMY!...😆✌️...Fausto would not approve...
I suspect you’re right! I should’ve at least used two-percent to keep up with Joe’s fatty steak. :)