velorific

developer, cyclist, maker of velorific

[velorific @velorific]

I'm proud to say I've built Velorific - an iPhone app for cyclists/runners that helps you fuel training and recovery properly. It connects to Strava and adjusts daily nutrition targets around the work you’re actually doing, instead of treating every day the same.

I built it because I realised I’d spent years taking training seriously without taking fuelling seriously enough.

Since getting more intentional about carbs, protein, fat and recovery, the difference in performance has been much bigger than I expected. Velorific is for athletes who:
- use Strava
- care about performance
- want to fuel training better, not just “eat less”
- like the idea of nutrition targets adapting to load and recovery

I’m going to be talking about the app a lot on here because I care about it and believe there’s a real gap for this. I believe it will change the way you fuel and the way you train.

https://t.co/2X83MZOTtv
Velorific

[velorific @velorific]

I started using Velorific in May and immediately noticed the difference when I started adapting carbs to my workout needs. Data doesn’t lie and I am 54yo in 3 months.

[velorific @velorific]

@Arkasiraee the more I see stuff like this the more I realise how basic everything is - engineering is at the same time miraculous and also just moving stuff around really fast using bits of metal

[velorific @velorific]

@Alan_Couzens 100% this is the idea behind velorific on ios. Adaptive carbs are a massive game changer in terms of training, recovery and all round health. it's so obvious but so few people do it

[Pierre Terdiman @PierreTerdiman]

If you think your life is hard, think about the French software devs whose first name is Claude.

[velorific @velorific]

@cyclingontnt great reporting!

[velorific @velorific]

If you’re an athlete then looking after your nutrition doesn’t mean using a 3D printed milk lock (in office fridge rn)…it means using https://t.co/6gX63lHF60

[Jeff Rothschild @EatsleepfitJeff]

1/6 The last paper from my PhD is out, looking at what endurance athletes eat! 🧵

We tracked training & dietary intake of 46 endurance athletes over 12 weeks (~4,000 days of diet tracking) to see how athletes actually practice carbohydrate periodization in real-world training.

[velorific @velorific]

update:

[velorific @velorific]

my life before and after openclaw

[velorific @velorific]

Best ever 1 hour power today in 2*30min sweetspot session (after 4*10min Threshold yesterday). Amazing what proper fuelling can do for recovery and ability to go again

[velorific @velorific]

Velorific: Training-aware nutrition for endurance athletes. https://t.co/nuDfLD0VUR via @producthunt

[velorific @velorific]

The reason most nutrition apps (MyFitnessPal, etc) don't work for endurance athletes is structural.

They're built around a fixed daily calorie target. but a cyclist's energy needs can swing 2,000+ calories between a rest day and a hard ride. A static target is essentially useless for anyone training seriously.

Nobody was solving this simply. So I did.

[velorific @velorific]

Just launched Velorific, a nutrition app for cyclists that adjusts your macro targets based on actual training load rather than a static daily number.

Syncs with Strava and TrainingPeaks. A hard day means more carbs. rest day pulls back. The day after a very hard session, the deficit is waived entirely.

Download on iOS. link below.
https://t.co/2X83MZOTtv

[tom danielson @tomdanielson]

What an epic first big mtn stage at the Giro. This is what I saw:

1. I wouldn’t get too exited seeing Gal so close to Jonas. Visma raced the first mountain stage extremely aggressively with an undertrained Jonas. I don’t think his threshold and VO2 zones are super sharp and defined and likely the savage Visma climbing pace took more glycogen out of his legs than expected. You could see Jonas was slowly extending his gap with a high cadence until suddenly in the last k’s his cadence slowed dramatically showing the signs of depletion. His riding style changed too going from steady high power to fluctuations of short burts of high power and low power. They actually showed Jonas’s power and he was jumping between 330w and 400w in the final. Meanwhile Gal paced the climb perfectly staying within his zones, using a high cadence, and ended up close in the end. But I think Jonas will race into sharpness in these zones and start to increase the gaps to others as we go.

[velorific @velorific]

@_brian_johnson I honestly think most people don't know what a difference this makes to training/recovery/quality of life. I've done 10 marathons and years of hard cycling with completely random fuelling.

[velorific @velorific]

I'm proud to say I've built Velorific - an iPhone app for cyclists/runners that helps you fuel training and recovery properly. It connects to Strava and adjusts daily nutrition targets around the work you’re actually doing, instead of treating every day the same.

I built it because I realised I’d spent years taking training seriously without taking fuelling seriously enough.

Since getting more intentional about carbs, protein, fat and recovery, the difference in performance has been much bigger than I expected. Velorific is for athletes who:
- use Strava
- care about performance
- want to fuel training better, not just “eat less”
- like the idea of nutrition targets adapting to load and recovery

I’m going to be talking about the app a lot on here because I care about it and believe there’s a real gap for this. I believe it will change the way you fuel and the way you train.

https://t.co/2X83MZOTtv
Velorific

[velorific @velorific]

Ride fuelling setup including home made energy gels and oat bars. Saved a fortune doing this myself. Probably 75-80 miles today.

[velorific @velorific]

What are you looking at?

[velorific @velorific]

@SimonBrundish you might be making good points here but i can't read it because this is just ai generated slop

[velorific @velorific]

tired of @openclaw 's unhelfpul help -torrents of text in a telegram chat box - just haven't got the patience to read through it...