The CLIFCast Podcast is back! Episode 6 is now live on iTunes and available to stream below. And this time it’s all about Protein.

Protein is the building blocks of muscle. Without it, you can’t get all the amazing benefits from your workout because protein helps tissues recover and rebuild. But what exactly is protein? What are the different foods we can eat to get it into our body, and is it something we crave? Here we will learn the differences between plant-based proteins and animal-based proteins, when to eat, what protein snacks to have, and we may even shatter some protein myths.

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The CLIFCast Podcast is back with Episode 5: Energy, now live on iTunes, and available to stream below. Ricardo returns to help you learn about exactly what energy is (is it the same as calories?), how it feels in your body and what the best foods are for it.

Our in-house Clif Bar runners share nuggets of their experience while our nutritionist, Tara, grounds us with a heap of well-researched facts about the benefits of fat, the best vegetables to eat for energy and why caffeine can increase your performance. Do the benefits of caffeine go beyond an increased sense of energy? Get the answers to these questions and more in this week’s podcast.

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Episode 4 of CLIFCast is now live on iTunes, and available to stream below. In this episode, Race Day, Ricardo talks all about what to do on the day of a race. He explores what foods and drinks might be best for your half or full marathon, or other long distance race. What should you eat the night before a race, the morning of, or mere minutes before the starting gun goes off? Learn about eating and drinking on and off course, on and around your big day.

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Episode 3 of CLIFCast is now live on iTunes, and available to stream below. In this episode, your main man Ricardo talks all about hydration.

Whether running a 5-mile loop or a 100-mile Ultra – dehydration happens. But if you know what to drink and when, you can diminish the chances of depleting your body of its greatest and most important resource: water. In this episode, we explore the effects of water and electrolytes in our body, the dangers of sodium loss, and the best way to replenish all of them.

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Episode 2 of CLIFCast is now live on iTunes, and available to stream below. In this edition, Ricardo is back to explore the nutrition of recovery.

Just because your body has stopped moving doesn’t mean you’re anywhere near done. Truth is, your body continues to work double-time on the inside in order to recover from your well-earned wear and tear. What foods and/or drinks are best for rebuilding muscle tissue? What are the best ways to recover lost fluids and electrolytes post race? And what is this “Recovery Window of Opportunity” we keep hearing about? The answers are within.

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