Mon, Dec-03-12, 21:57
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Plan: DDF
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Location: San Diego, CA
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Originally Posted by StuartB
OK, I just read Phinney's take on needing almost no food. I'm a newbie so it's not computing with me yet, and have friends who are actual athletes that carb-load, etc, and say low-carb is idiotic. I don't agree with them, just saying I'm adjusting to a new way of thinking. Still, I'm not sure I will quite on the same page as Phinney by the time I take my trip. Definitely a lot to think about.
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The guy who won a cross country race was a low carber. Western States 100 – Low Carber Wins Ultramarathon – Steve Phinney and Jeff Volek Study
Two important points:
1) You have to be fully fat-adapted. If you're still a glucose burner it won't work.
2) I think this works more for endurance sports rather than sprints.
As Phinney and Volek write: Isn't it better to have a 40 gallon fuel tank than a 2 gallon fuel tank? If you have good access to your fat stores, that is your fuel, otherwise you have to run off of the small amount of glycogen (carbohydrate) you can store in your muscles. Once you run out of that, you pretty much stop. Most people can't just easily switch back and forth.
Last edited by Nancy LC : Mon, Dec-03-12 at 22:02.
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