Cycling
Sports Nutrition for Cyclists
Cycling demands a lot from your body. Whether you're riding long distances, pushing through intervals, or taking on steep climbs, the right nutrition helps you stay sharp, ride stronger, and recover faster. With the right balance of carbohydrates, fluids, and electrolytes, you can hold your pace from the first kilometre to the last.
Improved Performance
Carbohydrates are your main fuel on the bike. The right mix of carbs and electrolytes helps you maintain steady power during long rides and demanding climbs, allowing you to keep pushing without fading.
Faster Recovery
After a tough session, your muscles need energy and protein to repair and rebuild. Recovering well means you’re ready for your next ride sooner — not dragging yesterday’s fatigue into today’s training.
Better Hydration
Hydration directly influences strength, focus, and endurance. Amacx Energy Drink and Hydro Tabs help you stay topped up on essential electrolytes, especially during warm weather or long days in the saddle. Staying hydrated helps prevent cramps and keeps your performance stable.
By focusing on these essentials, you support consistent energy, strong legs, and confident riding, every time you get on the bike.
Cycling Nutrition Guide
Not sure what to eat and drink for your rides?
Our cycling fuel guide gives you practical, sport-specific advice for everything from short efforts to long endurance days.
For cyclists
The full Amacx range is built to support your performance on the bike: from energy and hydration to recovery. Every product is designed to be easy to use on the move and to help you ride stronger across all distances.
Frequently Asked Questions
Cyclists rely on a steady flow of carbohydrates to keep their energy stable during long or intense efforts. Before a demanding ride, a carbohydrate-rich meal helps build up your glycogen stores. For shorter or easier rides, your normal pre-ride meal is often enough.
On the bike, many cyclists use Energy Gels, Energy Bars and Energy Drinks. These products provide quick, easy-to-absorb carbohydrates that help maintain your pace and prevent dips in energy. Fueling regularly allows you to ride longer and stay in control.
With the right combination before and during your ride, you can support consistent performance over any distance.
A common guideline for longer rides is around 90 grams of carbohydrates per hour. But hitting that number comfortably takes practice. Your gut needs time to adapt, so increase your intake gradually and test what works well for you in training, not only on big event days.
With Amacx, calculating your intake is straightforward. Every product in the Energy Line contains 30 grams of carbohydrates, which means reaching 90 grams per hour simply comes down to three products. For many cyclists, this looks like two Drink Gels plus an Energy Drink, but you can mix and match based on what your stomach tolerates best.
Training your gut and building up your carb intake step by step helps you maintain steady energy, delay fatigue, and ride stronger for longer.
Hydration is key for strength, focus, and temperature control. On the bike you lose fluids through sweat and breathing, even on cooler days, and once dehydration sets in your power and concentration drop quickly.
The isotonic Energy Drink helps you replace both fluids and electrolytes during long rides, intervals, and warm conditions. Its mix of carbs and electrolytes supports fast absorption so you stay ahead of dehydration.
Hydro Tabs are ideal when you want electrolytes without extra carbohydrates. They help maintain fluid balance and muscle function on recovery days, indoor sessions, or when you fuel mainly with gels and bars.
Drinking regularly and keeping electrolytes steady helps prevent cramps, dehydration, and sudden dips in power on longer rides.
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