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World-renowned HRV researcher Daniel Plews discusses everything you need to know about performance and training

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Do You Have a Fat Burning Strategy for Long Distance Triathlon?

The low carb diet is not the answer to everyone and it works for every single person. There are nuances within it that have to be tackled correctly to do it right because many, many people get it very, very wrong. The lower end athlete who's not producing can probably get away with just having more of a fat base fuel. When you talk about the elites, you will have some form of carbohydrate stores taken no matter how good your fat oxidation is. So even with me, my maximal fat oxidation rate is 1.4 grams per minute, which is pretty high,. But I still took 50 grams of carbs per hour when I would do for the duration of the bike at least on K

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