Next Level Training Foods for Serious Cycling Nutrition

There’s always room for improvement. That’s especially true when it comes to fueling, where it’s easy to slip into food ruts and miss out on all the vitamins, minerals, and other nutritional elements we need to ride and feel our best. (Learn dozens more ways to optimize your on-bike time in The Bicycling Big Book of Cycling for Women.)

So we tapped certified sports nutritionist and professional triathlete Pip Taylor, APD, author of The Athlete’s Fix, to weigh in on which hot new foods are worth putting on your plate for maximum performance.

“Adding variety in itself can be a great boost to an already good diet,” says Taylor. “It’s important to remember, of course, that the real key is having a consistently good diet, which is better than eating some great foods as an attempt to make up for lots of poor choices."

So while you're taking steps to make your diet healthy all around, here are some next-level training plates that will supercharge your diet even further.