From CentreDaily:
The scale must be broken. After training for five weeks for a 10K, how can a person actually weigh more than when they started?
Training for an athletic event is supposed to be a fun and challenging way for amateur athletes to lose weight or get into shape. So athletes can feel defeated when the scale actually tips higher after weeks of training.
It’s called train gain the pounds amateur athletes pack on during training. It’s the result of miscalculating how many calories are needed to fuel the body during training.
“It’s not hard to see how people get it wrong,” said Joe Friel, co-author of “The Paleo Diet for Athletes” (Rodale, 2005) and an endurance athlete trainer in Scottsdale, Ariz. “You have to think about particular the sport, duration, intensity.”
A runner, for example, needs extra fuel during a longer workout, such as 90 minutes. But a cyclist doesn’t need any additional
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