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Episode 46A - What is metabolic flexibility and why should I care? | Jeff Rothschild

Fueling Endurance - Nutrition for Runners, Cyclists & Triathletes

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Is There a Benefit to Being a Lactate Burner?

Anan, you are different people have different sort of combinations of muscle fibre types and all that kind of stuff that goes into it. Do you feel that there's certain events or situations where there might actually be benefits to being metabolically inflexible? So for example, those shorter, high intensity events. Is there an advantage to being almost a pure carbohydrate burner, so to spa, i think, in theory,. But again, i think being well trained sorts a lot of that out. Ye. And we'll all get into that shortly.

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