Category: Nutrition
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Low Carbohydrate and Metabolic Flexibility
Metabolic flexibility and low-carbohydrate endurance exercise is a topic close to my heart because it’s what I researched during my PhD. Don’t like to read? watch the video or listen to the podcast at the bottom of the blog. When it comes to low-carb and endurance exercise I believe a lot of people are missing…
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Fasted Training
Here’s an exert from a paper written by Performance Advantage co-founder Professor Steve Stannard; “To ensure the most potent training stimulus, it has been argued that many training sessions should be conducted in the least performance-enhancing situation.Therefore recommendations aimed at ensuring optimal performance in a single bout of exercise, such as maximising carbohydrate intake and…
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Pre-race Low-Carbohydrate Glycogen Super-Compensation
During my PhD, I did one particular study in which I had highly trained athletes eat both a high carb diet and an ultra-low carbohydrate diet (similar to the ketogenic or Atkins diet) for 14 days. Two striking results came out of this study. Result Number One After almost two weeks of <80g of carbohydrate…
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Dr Will’s 5 W’s for Carbohydrate Intake
Who, what, when, where, and why Who Endurance athletes, men and women, exercising for one hour or more. Athletes that are trying to get the best out of themselves in a given training session or race. Triathlon, kayaking, swimming, mountain biking, cycling, running, walking and any other endurance activity. What Carbohydrates are referred to as…
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Burning Fat Vs Burning Carbohydrate: A Flawed Argument
The title of my PhD thesis is “Metabolic Flexibility and Endurance Performance”. The term Metabolic Flexibility is one that not a lot of people have heard in regards to the Fat Vs Carbohydrate debate. Here I’d like to introduce the reader to why you can’t use carbohydrate or fat, you must and always will use…
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Women Endurance Athletes and Carbohydrate
Women Aren’t Men A quick search of google for “endurance nutrition” will bring up an array of feeding and supplementation protocols all centred around one common theme; you need carbohydrate for optimal endurance performance. Despite doing extensive research on low carbohydrate exercise performance, I’m not going to argue with the concept of carbs = performance.…