The new LiFT capsules use fat as energy

Improving fat metabolism is one of the mantras of training to have an almost inexhaustible source of energy. The new LiFT capsules help by providing specific fats that the body is able to metabolize almost as efficiently and quickly as if it were glucose, providing a greater energy supply than the usual gels and bars that are usually used.

Make fats your allies with LiFT capsules

Despite the fact that they have traditionally been considered as staunch enemies of the cyclist, increasingly deeper knowledge about nutrition and physiology has helped to understand the importance of fats in providing energy during pedaling. However, the problem with their use, despite having a much higher energy contribution than carbohydrates, is that their mobilization and processing is much more laborious for the body, so it only uses them at medium and low intensities, decreasing their contribution as the intensity of the effort increases.

In fact, an important part of training in endurance sports is aimed at improving the athlete's energy efficiency by making the muscles capable of using fats at higher intensities to conserve as much as possible the limited reserves of glycogen for when things get really serious.

Under this premise of using fats as the preferred substrate for as long as possible, 4Gold has developed its LiFT product, an acronym for Lipid Fuel Technology, with which they intend that before and during the effort we supplement our energy intake, traditionally based on the carbohydrates contained in gels, bars and drinks.

To achieve that LiFT offers a capacity for absorption and assimilation similar to that of carbohydrates, 4Gold has formulated this new product by combining the characteristics of medium chain triglycerides and long chain in a new fat molecule that is distributed directly to the muscle tissue without needing to be processed by the liver.

This means being able to provide much more energy than we can easily have, achieving the desired effect of reserving the precious glycogen only for the most decisive moments of the test we are facing in which the intensity of the effort shoots up.

LiFT comes in convenient lime-flavored tubes for easy consumption on the bike and its use is indicated for the pre-test and, during the same, in the initial stages in which we seek to save as much energy as possible. That is, they do not intend to reduce the use of gels and other nutrition elements but it is a complement to this, introducing a type of nutrient that until now had not been taken into account its usefulness during activity. Each tube provides 13 grams of lipids that represent 118.54 kcal.

Some of the ambassadors of 4Gold such as Alberto Contador, who highlights the importance of having the largest possible energy reserves in a sport in which it is increasingly ridden faster, or Mathieu van der Poel who believes that it is a product that will make a difference in providing fuel to the cyclist, have already been able to check the advantages of using LiFT.