Carbohydrate Depleted Endurance Training
In today’s Globe and Mail Alex Hutchison wrote an article on the merits of training / exercising ’empty.’This is a method I have been advocating for 25years. Essentially it calls for exercising on an
carbohydrate loading
To Carbohydrate Load or Not?
This is the season when we see swells of ‘runners’ take to the roads. The sunshine inspires and compels so many of us to take on physical challenges, like running road races. The recreational runner is a special breed. One that deserves unsung praises. Firstly it is the recreational runner’s race registration that funds the
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Stop Carbo -Loading Before Endurance Events
Carbohydrate loading is a concept of eating excess carbohydrates to fuel endurance activity. It has long been promoted as essential to ward off fatigue and ‘bonking,” a sports term to mean depleting ones fuel sources and flooding with lactic acid. In my day in nutritional sciences, one would get a failing grade if countering the
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