FAQs.
What is DuelFuel and How Does it Work?
DuelFuel isn't a shortcut; it's your unfair advantage. It's a precision-engineered, all-in-one nutritional arsenal designed to fuel your ambition and dominate your physical domain. Think of it as two relentless halves of a complete strategy:
• Before the push: A high-carbohydrate flapjack engineered for explosive pre-exercise energy, priming your system for maximum output.
• After the grind: A high-protein brownie crafted for brutal post-exercise recovery, rebuilding and fortifying your body for the next challenge.
How does it work? Beyond these powerful macronutrients, we strip away the guesswork, delivering the exact, foundational vitamins and minerals your body needs, precisely when it needs them. This isn't about covering bases; it's about building an unshakeable internal fortress.
From igniting your energy metabolism and powering explosive muscle function to fortifying your immune defence and accelerating efficient and effective recovery, DuelFuel optimises every critical system.
The result? You eliminate weaknesses, prevent breakdowns, and consistently operate at your absolute peak, day in, day out. It's the relentless fuel for your relentless drive.
What are the benefits of DuelFuel?
DuelFuel isn't just about 'benefits'; it's about forging an unshakeable advantage that elevates your entire game. By meticulously engineering a complete pre- and post-exercise system, we unleash a cascade of relentless gains:
• Explosive Power & Unwavering Endurance: The high-carbohydrate flapjack ignites your system, delivering the immediate, sustained energy you need to power through limits and dominate every rep, every sprint.
• Optimised, Accelerated Recovery: The high-protein brownie floods your depleted muscles with critical nutrients, slashing downtime, kickstarting repair, and ensuring you rebuild stronger, faster – ready to hit it again.
• Total System Optimisation: Beyond macros, our comprehensive vitamin and mineral blend zeroes in on your body's core functions. We optimise energy metabolism, fortify immune defence, sharpen cognitive function, build unyielding bones, and enhance muscle performance. This eliminates the hidden weaknesses that compromise your output.
• Relentless Resilience: By providing foundational micronutrient support, DuelFuel reduces fatigue, protects your cells from stress, and strengthens your system against breakdown. You stay on track, consistently operating at your peak.
DuelFuel means no compromises. Just maximum output, unmatched recovery, and the unwavering consistency required to truly perform in your chosen domain, again and again.
Why is DuelFuel Gut-Friendly?
Your gut isn't just a digestive tract; it's the hidden engine of your performance. Disrupt it, and your output tanks. DuelFuel is precision-engineered to be genuinely gut-friendly, and a key player in this is the oligofructose we meticulously include.
This isn't just any ingredient; it's a powerful prebiotic fibre. Oligofructose actively feeds the beneficial bacteria in your gut, cultivating a thriving and balanced microbiome. What does this mean for your performance? It means:
• Optimal Nutrient Absorption: Your body becomes ruthlessly efficient at extracting every last gram of fuel from your food, converting it into raw power.
• Uninterrupted Performance: By promoting healthy digestion, oligofructose eliminates the gastric distress, bloating, and discomfort that derail sessions and break focus.
• Robust Internal System: A balanced gut contributes to overall systemic health, ensuring your body is always primed for the brutal demands of training and rapid recovery.
DuelFuel works with your body, optimising your internal environment so you can focus solely on pushing your limits, without a single distraction from your gut. No compromises, just clean fuel and relentless output.
Why is DuelFuel "Nutritionally Complete" for an Active Person?
You're not an "active people"; you're an athlete relentlessly demanding more from your body than standard nutrition can provide. Most diets leave critical gaps, but DuelFuel is engineered to eliminate compromise.
Being "nutritionally complete" means we've forged a comprehensive system that fuels every aspect of your performance and recovery:
• Strategic Macronutrient Fuelling for Peak Output: Our high-carbohydrate flapjack ignites your pre-workout power, ensuring immediate and sustained energy output. Post-session, our high-protein brownie delivers the precise fuel for brutal muscle repair and accelerated rebuild, enhanced by a potent dose of Leucine, the key amino acid for kickstarting muscle protein synthesis. We also include a balanced fibre profile to support overall digestive health and sustained energy, without compromising performance during intense periods.
• Unbreakable Micronutrient Foundation: This is where true completeness kicks in. Each DuelFuel pack is loaded with 25 essential vitamins and minerals, meticulously chosen to meet the heightened demands of intense training. This isn't random; it's a precision strike on every critical function: optimising energy metabolism, fortifying immune defence, building unyielding bones, sharpening mental focus, and ensuring seamless recovery.
We leave no weakness uncovered. DuelFuel ensures you have every single macro and micro required to prevent breakdowns, power through fatigue, and consistently operate at your absolute peak.
How Does DuelFuel Fit into a Balanced Diet?
Your balanced diet is the bedrock of your performance – that's non-negotiable.
DuelFuel isn't a replacement for whole foods; it's the precision-engineered tool that amplifies their impact and fills the critical gaps active individuals often face.
Think of it as the strategic top-up for your relentless training demands. While your core diet provides consistent daily nutrition, DuelFuel is designed to:
• Optimise Pre- & Post-Workout Fuelling: Delivering targeted macronutrients (high-carb flapjack before, high-protein brownie after) exactly when your body demands them most for explosive energy and rapid recovery.
• Complete Micronutrient Coverage: Even the best diets can struggle to meet the heightened vitamin and mineral needs of intense training. DuelFuel's 25 essential micronutrients ensure every metabolic process, every defence mechanism, and every recovery pathway is fully supported, preventing hidden weaknesses that can derail your output.
By integrating DuelFuel, you're not just eating well; you're strategically perfecting your nutritional approach. It ensures you're always operating at your peak, preventing fatigue, accelerating adaptation, and maintaining the unwavering consistency required to dominate your domain. No compromises, just optimised performance.
How Do I Use DuelFuel?
Using DuelFuel is as straightforward as your ambition: precision-timed fuelling for relentless output. We cut through the noise of complex routines to give you a simple, powerful system:
• Before Your Session: Consume the high-carbohydrate flapjack approximately 30 minutes pre-workout. This ignites your internal engine with fast-acting, sustained energy, ensuring you hit every session primed for maximum power and unwavering endurance.
• After Your Grind: Devour the high-protein brownie immediately post-workout – ideally within 30 minutes. This is your critical recovery window. The rapid protein delivery, combined with essential micronutrients, kickstarts efficient muscle repair, slashes recovery time, and sets you up to rebuild stronger for the next challenge.
DuelFuel is engineered for your demanding lifestyle. No guesswork, just strategic timing for peak performance and rapid, uncompromised recovery. Fuel precisely, recover relentlessly, and dominate your results.
Is DuelFuel suitable for all types of exercise?
Unquestionably. DuelFuel isn't designed for a niche; it's engineered for the universal demands of relentless human performance, no matter your arena.
Whether you're:
• Crushing iron in the gym
• Logging brutal miles on the road or trail
• Dominating sprints in a HIIT session
• Owning the field in team sports
• ...or simply dialling in your active recovery with a purposeful walk.
...the core requirements for explosive energy, rapid recovery, and an unshakeable nutritional foundation remain the same.
Our precision-timed flapjack and brownie system, coupled with the comprehensive 26 essential vitamins and minerals, fundamentally optimises your body for any challenge you throw at it. It provides the targeted macronutrients to fuel diverse efforts and the micronutrient backbone to ensure every system – from energy metabolism to muscle repair and mental focus – is performing at its peak.
DuelFuel empowers you to push limits, accelerate adaptation, and maintain unwavering consistency across the entire spectrum of physical activity. It's built for your ambition, whatever your game.
How should I store my DuelFuel?
To ensure your DuelFuel performs precisely as engineered and delivers its full, uncompromised power, proper storage is non-negotiable.
Keep your DuelFuel packs in a cool, dry place, shielded from direct sunlight and any extreme temperatures. This simple, yet critical step, actively safeguards the integrity of every precision-engineered nutrient within.
Is DuelFuel available in other flavours?
Not yet…but it will be. We have other exciting, game-changing flavours already in deep development. We're not just creating new tastes; we're crafting the next evolution of your fuel.
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How Does DuelFuel Work for Both Pre-Workout Performance and Post-Workout Recovery?
DuelFuel is a precision-engineered, two-phase system designed to support your entire training cycle – from ignition to rebuild. It's the relentless cycle of fuelling and recovery, built for continuous peak performance.
Phase 1: Pre-Workout Performance Your high-carbohydrate flapjack is your ignition switch. Consumed before your session, it floods your system with the clean, sustained energy required for explosive power and unwavering endurance. It primes your muscles and sharpens your focus, ensuring you hit the ground running and command every single rep, set, or stride.
Phase 2: Post-Workout Recovery After your session – the high-protein brownie becomes your rebuild command. Loaded with critical protein and a potent dose of Leucine, it kickstarts efficient muscle protein synthesis, accelerating repair, slashing downtime, and ensuring you rebuild stronger, faster.
The Integrated Advantage: Underpinning both these critical phases is DuelFuel's micronutrient foundation of 26 essential vitamins and minerals which actively optimise energy metabolism, fortify immune defence, reduce fatigue, and support every cellular process required for both peak output and rapid, uncompromised recovery.
It's a seamless transition from maximum effort to accelerated readiness. DuelFuel ensures you're always prepared to push limits and own your next performance.
How & When Should I Use DuelFuel for Best Results?
Here's how and when to deploy your DuelFuel for peak performance and rapid recovery:
• Before Your Session: Consume the high-carbohydrate flapjack approximately 30 minutes pre-workout. This strategic timing ensures your body is primed with fast-acting, sustained energy, allowing you to ignite your internal engine for maximum power and unwavering endurance when it counts.
• After Your Session: Devour the high-protein brownie post-workout – ideally within 30 minutes. This is your critical recovery window. Delivering rapid protein, including vital Leucine, at this precise moment kickstarts efficient muscle repair, drastically slashes recovery time, and ensures you rebuild stronger, faster for the next challenge.
GLOSSARY.
AEROBIC SYSTEM.
This is your body's endurance powerhouse, the energy system that produces ATP efficiently using oxygen, primarily from carbohydrates and fats (both strategically provided by DuelFuel). It fuels prolonged, lower-to-moderate intensity activities like long runs, cycles, or extended training sessions. While slower than anaerobic systems, the aerobic system delivers a vast, sustained supply of energy, enabling relentless endurance and ensuring you can maintain consistent output over extended periods, dominating the long game.
ANTIOXIDANT.
These are vital compounds that protect your cells from the damaging effects of free radicals and oxidative stress, which are naturally elevated during intense physical activity. By neutralising these harmful molecules, antioxidants are crucial for accelerating recovery, reducing cellular damage, and minimising exercise-induced fatigue. DuelFuel’s comprehensive blend of 26 essential micronutrients is meticulously formulated to provide powerful antioxidant support, safeguarding your internal integrity and ensuring your body maintains its resilience for relentless output.
ATP (ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE).
This is the direct, undisputed energy currency your cells use for every muscular contraction and metabolic process. All of your body’s energy systems are ultimately geared towards rapidly regenerating ATP. DuelFuel provides the optimal fuel – carbohydrates and fats – to relentlessly power ATP production, ensuring your muscles have the immediate and sustained energy required to drive through every set, every sprint, and every demanding effort, pushing your limits without hesitation.
ATP-PC SYSTEM.
This is your body's immediate, explosive power system, driving the very first few seconds of maximal, intense effort (e.g., a single heavy lift, a jump, or a short burst sprint). It rapidly regenerates ATP using phosphocreatine stored in your muscles, delivering instantaneous, raw strength without oxygen. DuelFuel's comprehensive energy support ensures your body is always primed to tap into this most potent, short-duration power source, allowing you to dominate those critical, explosive moments.
BETA GLUCAN.
A potent soluble fibre strategically included in DuelFuel. It acts as a foundational support for your immune system, enhancing your body's natural resilience. For the demanding athlete, this means fewer interruptions from illness, ensuring unwavering consistency in training and accelerating your path to peak performance. It's about strengthening your internal integrity for relentless output.
BRANCH CHAIN AMINO ACIDS (BCAAs).
These are the essential building blocks – Leucine, Isoleucine, and Valine – forming a critical component of DuelFuel's high-quality protein. Directly active in muscle tissue, BCAAs are vital for supporting muscle integrity during intense physical activity and, crucially, for kickstarting and accelerating muscle protein synthesis post-workout. They drive faster, more efficient recovery and contribute to building a resilient, powerful physique, pushing you towards consistent peak performance.
CARBOHYDRATE.
Your body's primary, non-negotiable energy source, meticulously provided in DuelFuel's high-carb flapjack. Carbohydrates are converted into glycogen, efficiently fuelling every intense effort, from powerful lifts to sustained sprints. They are crucial for igniting and maintaining peak performance, preventing energy dips, and are vital for rapidly replenishing your muscle glycogen post-workout, ensuring optimal recovery and readiness for your next session.
CARBOHYDRATE PERIODISATION.
This is the strategic adjustment of carbohydrate intake to align precisely with your training demands. It involves consuming higher carbs on intense training days to fuel peak performance and replenish glycogen, and potentially lower carbs on rest or lighter days to optimise fat adaptation or body composition. DuelFuel serves as a precision tool within your periodisation strategy, ensuring you hit specific macro targets pre- and post-workout to maximise your training output and accelerate your body's adaptation for relentless progression.
CATABOLISM.
This is the process where your body breaks down complex molecules, including vital muscle tissue, often to free up energy. While a natural part of metabolism, excessive catabolism during intense training or insufficient fuelling can lead to muscle loss and hinder recovery. DuelFuel's strategic fuelling, particularly its high-protein content and BCAAs, is designed to actively combat this breakdown, preserving your hard-earned muscle mass and optimising your body’s anabolic (building) state for consistent strength and resilience.
FREE RADICALS.
These are unstable, highly reactive molecules produced naturally by your body's metabolism and significantly increased during intense physical activity. Left unchecked, they can cause cellular damage, impair recovery, and contribute to fatigue, directly compromising your performance capacity. DuelFuel’s comprehensive micronutrient profile is packed with powerful antioxidants specifically chosen to neutralize these damaging free radicals, protecting your cellular integrity and ensuring your body can recover swiftly and maintain relentless output.
GLUCOSE.
This is your body’s immediate, fast-acting energy source, a simple sugar derived from the carbohydrates you consume, especially those in DuelFuel’s high-carb flapjack. It’s critical for sparking muscle contractions, fuelling brain function, and ensuring you have instant power to initiate and sustain intense efforts. Glucose is about delivering energy when you need it most, without delay.
GLYCOGEN.
Your body’s critical energy reserve, stored primarily in your muscles and liver from the carbohydrates you consume (like those in DuelFuel). Glycogen is unleashed to provide sustained power during demanding exercise, preventing fatigue and maintaining high output. Rapidly replenishing these stores post-workout is non-negotiable for accelerating recovery and ensuring you’re fully primed for your next session.
GLYCAEMIC INDEX (GI).
A metric that measures how rapidly a carbohydrate-containing food elevates your blood glucose levels. Understanding GI is crucial for strategic fuelling. High GI carbs provide fast-acting energy, ideal for quick pre-workout ignition, while lower GI options offer a more sustained release. DuelFuel's high-carb flapjack is precisely formulated with carbohydrates designed to deliver the optimal GI response for immediate and unwavering energy, priming you for maximum output.
GLYCAEMIC LOAD (GL).
A more comprehensive measure than GI alone, Glycaemic Load accounts for both how quickly a carb raises blood sugar (GI) and the actual amount of carbohydrate in a serving. It provides a realistic gauge of a food's overall impact on your blood glucose, crucial for consistent energy management. DuelFuel’s expert formulation considers GL to ensure a precise and effective carbohydrate delivery, optimising your energy levels for relentless performance without unnecessary spikes or crashes.
HYDROLYSATES.
These are proteins specifically broken down for ultra-fast absorption, a key feature DuelFuel leverages. Through a precise enzymatic process, intact proteins are converted into smaller, highly bioavailable peptides and amino acids. For the relentless athlete, this means rapid nutrient delivery to your muscles, accelerating the onset of recovery and muscle protein synthesis without delay. It's about ensuring your body receives vital building blocks at maximum speed, optimising your post-effort rebuild and setting you up for your next intense challenge with peak efficiency.
INFLAMMATION.
Your body’s natural response to stress or damage, essential for initial repair. However, uncontrolled or prolonged inflammation can impair recovery and hinder performance. DuelFuel’s comprehensive micronutrient profile and targeted ingredients support your body in managing a healthy inflammatory response. This ensures accelerated recovery processes, reduced muscle soreness, and a more resilient system, keeping you on track for consistent peak output without unnecessary setbacks.
LACTIC ACID SYSTEM.
This is your body's high-octane, rapid-response energy pathway, fuelling intense, short-to-medium duration efforts (typically 30 seconds to 2 minutes), like repeated sprints or heavy lifting sets. It generates ATP quickly by breaking down glucose (supplied by DuelFuel’s carbohydrates) without oxygen. While leading to the familiar burning sensation, mastering this system allows you to power through fatigue and dominate those critical, high-intensity bursts where maximum output is non-negotiable.
LEUCINE.
This is the critical amino acid trigger for muscle protein synthesis (MPS), a non-negotiable component of any serious athlete's recovery. As one of the three Branch Chain Amino Acids, Leucine uniquely signals your body to initiate muscle repair and growth. DuelFuel’s high-protein brownie delivers a potent dose of Leucine, precisely when your muscles are most receptive, ensuring you maximise your post-workout rebuild and accelerate adaptation for your next demanding effort.
MACRONUTRIENTS.
These are the foundational pillars of your diet – Carbohydrates, Proteins, and Fats – needed in significant amounts to fuel your body’s relentless demands. They provide the raw energy for every action, serve as the building blocks for muscle and tissue repair, and underpin essential bodily functions. DuelFuel precisely delivers targeted carbohydrates and proteins to strategically optimise your pre-workout energy and post-workout recovery, ensuring your primary fuel sources are always dialled in for peak performance.
MICRONUTRIENTS.
The vital catalysts – Vitamins and Minerals – that, though needed in smaller quantities, orchestrate countless essential bodily processes. They are fundamental for energy metabolism, immune resilience, bone strength, cognitive function, and every aspect of recovery. DuelFuel provides an unbreakable foundation of 26 essential micronutrients, ensuring your body has every vital element to operate at its absolute peak, leaving no hidden weaknesses to compromise your output.
MUSCLE PROTEIN BREAKDOWN (MPB).
This is the natural, yet potentially detrimental, process where your muscle proteins are broken down into simpler amino acids. While a constant process, intense training significantly elevates MPB, which can compromise muscle mass if not swiftly counteracted by muscle protein synthesis. DuelFuel’s strategic post-workout protein, rich in essential amino acids like Leucine, is precisely designed to minimise MPB, shifting your body into a powerful anabolic (building) state for optimal muscle preservation and growth, ensuring your efforts are never wasted.
MUSCLE PROTEIN SYNTHESIS (MPS).
This is the critical biological process of building and repairing muscle tissue from amino acids. MPS is the driving force behind muscle growth, strength adaptation, and efficient recovery after demanding workouts. DuelFuel’s high-quality protein, especially its potent Leucine content, is specifically engineered to maximise MPS post-workout, creating the optimal anabolic environment for accelerated rebuilding, increased power, and consistent progression towards your performance goals.
OXIDATIVE STRESS.
This occurs when there's an imbalance between harmful free radicals and your body's protective antioxidants, leading to cellular damage. Intense physical activity naturally increases this stress, which can directly impair recovery, amplify fatigue, and compromise cellular integrity. DuelFuel’s comprehensive blend of 26 essential micronutrients, rich in crucial vitamins and minerals with antioxidant properties, is precisely formulated to actively combat oxidative stress. This safeguards your cellular health, accelerates your recovery processes, and ensures your system remains resilient for relentless, high-level output.
POLYOL.
These are sugar alcohols sometimes used as sweeteners. While common, in higher concentrations, polyols can trigger digestive distress like bloating, gas, and discomfort – precisely what you don't need when pushing your limits. DuelFuel uses oligofructose, a gut-friendly polyol, allowing for seamless digestion and uninterrupted focus on your performance.
PREBIOTIC.
Not to be confused with probiotics, a prebiotic is a specific type of fibre, such as the oligofructose found in DuelFuel, that intelligently nourishes beneficial bacteria within your gut microbiome. This cultivation of a healthy gut ensures optimal nutrient absorption from your fuel and minimises digestive discomfort. For the focused athlete, it means a seamlessly functioning internal system, allowing for uninterrupted performance and efficient recovery, without any internal distractions.
PEPTIDES.
These are fast-acting, highly absorbable chains of amino acids, thoughtfully included in DuelFuel. Being shorter than full proteins, peptides are efficiently assimilated by your system, ensuring swift delivery of vital building blocks. For the dedicated athlete, they are crucial for accelerating muscle repair and facilitating rapid recovery processes, supporting overall cellular function and ensuring your body is efficiently primed for your next demanding effort.
REFERENCE INTAKE (RI).
This represents the standard guideline for daily nutrient and energy intake for an average adult.