The Science of Weight Loss and Performance

A lot of the ideas have been around since the 1970s with you know protein sparing modified fasts and Stephen Finney and Cordaine, Lauren Cordaine etc. so people who are more interested in weight loss health benefits then they lap over a little bit into the exercise worldYeah there are studies putting trained cyclists on very low carbohydrate high fat diets in the 1970s that really increases your rate of fat oxidation but it's not going to change your maximal respiratory capacity for muscles. Depending on how much you restricted your carbohydrate intake it might actually compromise your performance right yeah great I got the highest fat max in the world but I can't go more than 65% of O2 max what good am I