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Dietitian's Dilemma: Low Carbohydrate Performance - Mike McKnight

Human Performance Outliers Podcast

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How Do I Get My Carbohydrates for a 200 Mile Race?

michel: I get used to being into a steady state of quitosas for a few days before the race, and thenup my likagen a little bit. So from that aspect, i'm pretty similar for for all of my races, regardless of the distance. The research that we do have shows you're going tostart seeing a performance dip when you start kind of getting that low. And if you're out there long enough, you can dip into your glicagin if you go, no carb in that scenario. But at that intensity, you may be like a 90 ten split or something like that, of carbs or fatsto car metabolism, aat your 50 mile

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