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The Importance of Carbohydrates in Endurance Sports
In an elite athlete zone one is a huge training zone because their lactate threshold is going to be higher than most other people. Using elite athlete responses to training to infer that this kind of training is right for everybody ignores the volumes they are doing but also ignores their exercise intensity domain structure. So it is this classic thing of one size does not fit all. Next we have Dr. Tim Podlogar from Slovenia who knows more about carbohydrates in endurance sports than anyone else. He makes some important points related to what you should eat on race morning and carb loading which he thinks is best done just one day before the event.