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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 Need to Increase Calories During Training?

We spoke to doctor sam impy, who came up with the lycogen threshold hypothesis. The idea is that stored carbohydrate at the end of exercise was the important factor in deermining the body's adaptation to training. We want a m p k activated as part of our endurance training. If you start super high, oure ging to end kind of high in terms of elikgin. That also started as, dos p nutrition screw your signalling? Some people avoid exercising because they think it will inhibit or impair some of their signalling from exercisein the short term. But i don't think anything's really in disagreement with that.

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