Before you learn about the TORQ Fuelling System, it’s vital that you understand why it is so important to fuel properly in the first place. You don’t have to read all the text within this tab – you’ll learn everything you need to know by watching either one of the 5-minute videos below. Never has the concept of fuelling endurance performances been so thoughtfully explained. Once you’ve watched the video, feel free to read on to gain a deeper understanding of the fuelling concept.
This video features a cyclist, but regardless of your endurance discipline, the principles of fuelling remain the same. The Fuelling Running tab offers some solid running-specific guidance, yet all the information in the tabs on this page are relevant to all endurance disciplines and will help you to personalise your own hydration and fuelling strategy whatever it is you do.
Our EASY AS 1 2 3 concept helps to explain in greater detail how the TORQ Fuelling System can deliver differing hourly doses of carbohydrate depending on what you want to achieve from your exercise sessions.
1. If you’ve never really used energy and hydration products in a structured way before, start with just 1 TORQ Unit per hour. If you watch the comprehensive ‘Why Should I Fuel?’ video a couple of tabs over, we explain how there are performance benefits to be gained from consuming as little as 30 grams of carbohydrate (1 TORQ Unit) per hour. The message is that some carbohydrate is better than no carbohydrate!
If for instance you’re out for a trail run or mountain bike ride with friends at a relaxed and sociable pace, but you plan on being out for a prolonged period of time, regularly consuming a small dose of carbohydrate will help you to enjoy the experience and you won’t feel so drained after you’ve finished.
If you do choose to try 1 TORQ Unit per hour and find that you run out of energy towards the end of your exercise session, consider moving up to 2 TORQ Units per hour on the following occasion and see if this fixes the problem. You don’t just have to be a novice to consider consuming 1 TORQ Unit per hour either. You could be a serious athlete, but the exercise session you have planned is so low in intensity that either you require a much lower level of fuelling that you would if the intensity were to be higher.
2. If you’ve used energy products before and really want to notice a difference in your endurance performance, sticking diligently to 2 TORQ Units per hour will deliver some noticeable results. Again, our ‘Why Should I Fuel?’ video a couple of tabs over illustrates how 2 TORQ Units per hour is beneficial over 1. Most energy products max-out at 60 grams of carbohydrate per hour because they use a single glucose energy source whereas TORQ is ticking over at just over 60% of its potential, which means that 2 TORQ Units per hour is absorbed quickly into the body and sits very easily on the stomach. 2 TORQ Units per hour is a comfortable and effective level of fuelling and represents our default position here at TORQ.
3. Consuming 90 grams of carbohydrate per hour is optimal. 3 TORQ Units (90g carbohydrate) per hour is a unique offering by TORQ, because if it wasn’t for our meticulously consistent approach to product formulation across our drinks, gels, bars and chews, this level of functional carbohydrate delivery just wouldn’t be possible. It’s at 3 TORQ Units per hour where the TORQ Fuelling System starts to deliver optimal performances. In the same way that a highly tuned sports car has to burn more fuel to deliver the performance the driver needs, if you want the best performances, the more fuel you can deliver to your muscles, the faster and further you will go.
If you’ve been training for that all important event or race, get your body used to using 3 TORQ Units per hour and reap the benefits. Again, take a look at the ‘Why Should I Fuel?’ video a couple of tabs over to understand the performance benefits 3 TORQ Units per hour brings.
