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#382: The Secrets of Greater Endurance

The Art of Manliness

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The Importance of Carbohydrates in Endurance Performance

Carbloating has been a topic of controversy and debate in the past I'd say 15 years or so. The idea that it is possible to go low carb high fat and have very good endurance performance while consuming virtually no carbohydrates was a big surprise, he says. There's definitely a bit of a food fight if you will among scientists for and against this idea debating sort of subtleties of whether the efficiency is increased by a few percent or decreased by a fewpercent but the bottom line just to simplify it from my perspective is nobody has shown that low car high fat is better than carbs for most endurance performance there's some evidence that it might be worse where the advantage might be is if

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