Are You Making This Common Diet Mistake? Not Eating Enough Carbs! and Why Low Carb Diets are Bad

You are Ferrari and carbohydrates are your fuel. But the body does not work like a Ferrari in terms of going fast even as they tank empties. Athletes do better when their tanks are kept at full as possible at all times. This includes before, during and after exercise.
Learn from Coach Andrew and Nutritionist Alex Winnicki what the latest nutrition research says about your cycling training and performance especially HIGH carbohydrate nutritional strategies for your cycling performance.
They talk about how much carbohydrate you need to consume even if you are trying to lose weight. And why low carb diets and nutritional strategies are bad for you.
So eat up all you athletes out there training to ride faster! That's 689 grams of carb for a 160lb cyclist. Which is WAY more than you are probably consuming. Do you sometimes feel like sh*t on the bike, fatigued more than you should be, having trouble making the watts? Not eating enough carbs is WHY. So its a simple FIX - consume more carbohydrate to achieve more physiological adaptations and improve more.
A high carbohydrate diet is also what we call "Winning in the Kitchen" - check out our two winning in the kitchen meal plans in the CoachCat app. We give you specific meal-by-meal, breakfast, lunch and dinner + snacks instructions for what to eat.
A big thanks to Alex for being a guest on our podcast and of course to Rockstar Coach Andrew Giniat.
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[@rickmancini772]

Excellent episode, thanks. Regarding pre-ride fueling, I seem to do better with a high carb drink rather than a big serving of rice or granola. I can easily digest a drink with a 150 grams of maltodextrin and sugar pre-ride, sipped slowly over about an hour. The equivalent carb source in a food meal is a bear to digest.

[@andrewginiat3611]

Thanks! Fiber/fat/protein do seem to be a legitimate barriers to hitting carbohydrate targets in a pre-ride meal. Two of my go-to's have been pancakes with syrup or white rice in nut milk with mango; I can get in a lot more CHO with those than oatmeal, for example. My one concern with drinkable carbs would be the timing and making sure you don't experience 'reactive hypoglycemia'. Maybe we can get Alex to chime in here with some more expertise!