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Roland Green, Professional Cyclist 
Roland Green is a one of Canada’s premier Off Rand Road Racing cyclist. He has won multiple Road Racing and NORBA titles. As a new member of the Master Amino Acid Pattern (MAP) Team, he contributes some of his thoughts on:
How do you know if your training is effective? Are you improving?
After 15 years of riding and racing, I have come to learn a few things about this. I've made just about every mistake you can, but I have succeeded in figuring out why. Your body will send you signals if you are training effectively and if you are doing too much. Too little recovery time and poor nutrition can result in injury and nagging sickness. Poor appetite? trouble sleeping? crankiness? - this is the start of a recovery deficit that your body is facing. Your immune system has to have the proper food to work properly. I am certainly no doctor but I do know what works for me as far as diet and supplement guidelines go. Protein is a tricky area because we are led to believe that protein is protein is protein. Very not true!!! Some protein is more usable, with less workload put on your digestive system. The end result is that it ends up doing its intended function more efficiently. This must be your goal. When eyeing the meat selection at the supermarket, you have choices. The variety can be huge and the price difference as well. Gram for gram, these choices are not equal.
If you are paying attention to what kind of protein you are consuming, then you most likely deal with issues like your immune system and nagging injuries. These issues are directly connected to your quality of dietary protein. Using a protein supplement must be a well-researched area of your training. If it isn't, you’re probably wasting your money and precious training time. A protein's quality is determined by how much of it our body can turn into protein after digestion. For many proteins, like soy and whey, less than 20% becomes protein in our body, thus 80% of it is waste. Why would I eat something that had such a low ratio if I could do better? Plus, my system now has all this waste to deal with. Not my choice. Meats and fish are better at around 30% usableprotein, but the best food is the whole egg at 48%. But one choice, far far above all the rest, is MAP. It’s 99% converted to protein by the body. Less than 1% waste. With my training and racing schedule, I need premium nutrition.
After all, it's how I make my living. I can't afford sickness and injury that is due to inferior nutrition. Thats why I use and recommend MAP. It's my choice for protein supplementation.
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Through all the training and intense racing, I managed to stay healthy, fit, and strong — all things I can attribute to the MAP and BodyHealth Complete."