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Metabolic Efficiency Training: Is it the secret to burning fat as a fuel source more efficiently

Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running

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How to Control Blood Sugar With Protein and Fat

There are two prongs to metabolic efficiency training, the nutrition piece and the exercise piece. Nutrition is as easy as controlling blood sugar through getting the right amounts of carbohydrate protein and fat. If your insulin level is low, you will always teach your body to burn fats at higher intensities. As a runner, you're going to partition between this one to one carb to protein or one to, I'm sorry, two to one, two carbs to one hand of protein, depending on your training cycle.

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