Episode 198: Dr. Paul Mason
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
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The Effects of Race Pace Intensity on Muscle Glycogen
The big training stimulus was a three-hour treadmill session at 65% VO2 max, which is low enough where I would imagine if someone is actually paying attention to the nutrition and focusing on like 10% carbohydrate intake. And with that framework and training, I would imagine that your fat oxidation rates would increase to the point of hardly touch your muscle glycogen in the first place. So they're glycogen, even when you increase the intensity, this compares to less than 0.2 grams a minute in the high carb athlete that absolutely demolishes it.
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