Carb Loading: How to Properly Fuel for Your Next Event (Ask a Cycling Coach 244)

[@Saturday_ProFuel]

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[@willnonya]

you all have taught me so much , and i was in med school , you forget so much and this is just what was needed thank you all

[@BulletJS]

Great discussion and thanks for the reference. Does the paper discuss or address that muscle glycogen is not "shared" between muscles so while an athlete may replenish their glycogen stores to 500g or more not all of that is available to the working muscles i.e. legs. Also, pretty sure glycogen synthase is turned off during exercise so that no new glycogen is synthesized.

[@jeffreyreed6056]

Again, another great video! When I was a kid, I would eat a box of cereal regularly. My parents hated it.

[@darinsteele7091]

Geraint Thomas ate around 25kg's of white rice during the 2018 Tour de France.

[@SiegA776]

says who?

[@darinsteele7091]

@@SiegA776 it's in a documentary of him on KZbin.

[@GeeMacD123]

Thanks guys for a great discussion. There was just so, so much information to take in, I found it hard to keep track and process it all (whilst doing a TR session of course 🥵). Could you look at including a summary of the findings (and perhaps give some examples/applications) at the end of these type of discussions/video chats - just so people like me can understand and apply more fully.? Thanks and keep up the good work!

[@TrainerRoad]

Of course we can! In fact, we already do :) You can check out the related Blog Article here: blog.trainerroad.com/how-to-use-carbs-for-maximum-performance/

[@GeeMacD123]

@@TrainerRoad ha ha... thanks guys. I knew you'd be all over it!!! NICE ONE 👌🏼😄

[@jamieatkinson9288]

Doing 80 grams on endurance ride regular

[@nj-kh5vw]

White rice withbsugar on top 6 meals a day. Unlimited. Boom!

[@nj-kh5vw]

10grams of carbs per kg per day aka kenyan diet starches and veggies with sugar added.

[@edhendrix7327]

I would love for you guys to go into a discussion on how we Type II diabetics should deal with glycogen stores.

[@daveinluray]

@Ed Hendrix Do you follow Stephen Phinney and the folks over at Virta health? I know LCHF is taboo around here but these guys are evidence based and reversing T2D. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3bEgJ-arb1qrdU

[@user-sc3on5ov3e]

How about reversing your T2D with a Whole Food Plant-Based diet! It works, I'm proof for over 5 years running.

[@wazzup105]

only 4 grams of "blood sugar" (in 5 liters of blood) .. .wow, didn't know it was so little. (well, mmol/liter should have given me a clue)

[@SiegA776]

good video. But the amount of food Nate eats makes me feel unwell. Once the liver and muscles are loaded with glycogen, eating anymore will just get stored as fat. So why eat so much? And apart from performance all these high carb meals can seriously damage your health long term?

[@flxgreen6346]

Maybe to carb the hunger , after all cycling hard can bring serious hunger

[@user-sc3on5ov3e]

A 10 or 12 hour-long event depletes all your glycogen and then your body turns to fat stores. Intence cycling can burn close to 1000 kcal/hour

[@SiegA776]

@@user-sc3on5ov3e Correct. But other than that far too much carbs for my liking.

[@nk-dw2hm]

@@SiegA776 this isn't about eating 500g of carbs with a sedentary lifestyle, it's about maximizing performance for the toughest training, competing, or touring. You wouldn't eat Michael Phelps diet without doing his exercise regimen either...

[@njkel.8714]

Carbs are never stored as fat. Theres a srudy been done where they OVERFED people sugar for 30 days they only added 5 grams of fat

[@investireocaminho33]

Great

[@jamieatkinson9288]

Just sugar and water and salt

[@jamieatkinson9288]

per hour