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#205 – Zach Bitter: Ultramarathon Running

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"I'm leaning on a lot of those like kind of liquid calories like those low volume high energy fat protein stuff the morning of so that when I start the race my body is going to be encouraged to start out burning high levels of fat once I get going probably about 45 minutes in I'll start introducing small amounts of carbohydrate," he said. "You can chip away at your muscle glycogen to the point where you don't necessarily want to go zero carbSo I'm basically just trying to defend what I know I'm going to be burning from the carbohydrate side of that 80 to 90 percent fat 10 to 20 percent carbohydrate by taking in carbs" He has gone as low as about 15 grams

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