Hi All, I’ve been a long time fanboy of Trainer Road ( since 2012 ) and have generally accepted their advice carte blanche. I’ve followed the podcast through the years of recommending higher and higher on-bike carbs and worked my gut up to handling ~110g/hour. Then I came across this new study, wh…

For what I quickly see they talk about a single 90min or so effort till TTE. You muscles energy storages are big enough to handle that, especially if you rested the days before the efforts. So not very surprising result. But that’s not what any racer does, who trains daily with a high energy deman…

[image] Glucose higher in endurance athletes? Training Thanks for all the MDs chiming in on this topic. And also to Lionel for highlighting his current situation after a lifetime of poor practice. I had Philip Prins on my podcast the other day, who lead the most recent stu…

A few years ago, I lost a lot of weight going low carb. I have a terrible sweet tooth and can pretty much eat as much sugar as you put in front of me, so this really helped with weightloss. Having said that, I was fine doing Tempo and below, but once I tried to get into Threshold and above, I didn’…

[image] TrippHolt: Has this been discussed elsewhere? Yes. We were talking about it ad nauseum last week. [image] TrippHolt: I’ve followed the podcast through the years of recommending higher and higher on-bike carbs and worked my gut up to handling ~110g/hour. Ingestion of carbohydr…

[image] TrippHolt: 70% VO2max ( a bit below FTP ) with only 10g of carbs per hour, there is no performance difference between people adapted to a high carb diet, or people adapted to a low carb- high fat diet. I don’t do triathlons so maybe it’s different, but I don’t think I could find a sin…

This podcast is worth a listen. They review this study at ~24:30.

Publication is also discussed here

[image] TrippHolt: A brief search for “Noakes” ( the author ) didn’t bring up anything relevant. Tim Noakes has done some good work in the past, but he’s gone off the rails a time or two in the past 10 years so it’s tough for me to trust anything that comes out of his mouth or lab

[image] Brennus: This is a really fun paper to kick around/talk/debate, though. My discussion with the lead author of the study, Dr Philip Prins. [image] How Low Can You Drop Your Carbs? - With Dr Philip Prins & Prof Paul... [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _mo…

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