Dear Performance Nutrition Leaders,
This week: the UCI dropped 14 open-access papers on cycling nutrition, Garmin just made nutrition a core feature — and the industry keeps moving.
💡 LATEST RESEARCH
The UCI commissioned a textbook in disguise.
In the May 2026 issue of the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, the Union Cycliste Internationale published what may be the most comprehensive sport-specific nutrition resource ever assembled. Fourteen papers. One sport. Every angle covered.
The UCI Sports Nutrition Project brings together a veritable who's who of sport nutrition research — Jeukendrup, Burke, Morton, Stellingwerff, and more — to map the nutritional demands of competitive cycling from the ground up.
The scope is striking. Race nutrition for road cycling. Periodisation strategies. Body composition and energy availability. Bone health. Supplement use. Special environments. Even emerging disciplines like esports and gravel cycling get their own dedicated review.
All fourteen papers are open access.
For practitioners who work with endurance athletes, or who simply want a masterclass in how to build a sport-specific nutrition framework, this is worth clearing your schedule.
Read the full UCI Sports Nutrition Project series here →
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💡Performance Tech
Garmin just added food and macro logging to Garmin Connect.
That's worth pausing on — not because the feature is polished, but because of what it signals.
At CES in January, Garmin announced that calorie and macro tracking would sit alongside training load, sleep, HRV, and Body Battery inside their app. It rolled out to early users this spring.
Athletes can log through a global food database, barcode scanning, AI photo recognition, or saved custom foods. On a compatible watch, they get a wrist-level snapshot of the day's intake.
Garmin is the largest wearable company in sport. When they build nutrition into the core platform — sitting next to sleep, HRV, and Body Battery — they're making a statement about where performance monitoring is heading.
Nutrition is no longer a separate conversation. It belongs in the same stack as training load and recovery.
That validation matters.
It also reflects something practitioners already know: fuelling outcomes are inseparable from training outcomes. The data is only useful when both sides are visible together.
Nutrition tracking sits behind the Connect+ subscription at $6.99/month.
The biggest companies in sport tech are now treating nutrition as infrastructure. That's good news for everyone building careers around it.
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