Endurance Sports Nutrition: Are High Carb or High Fat Diets Better? Delving into the Science...
The following article will cover the current nutritional recommendations for endurance sports.
There is a growing theory that we will become a "metabolically efficient" athlete if we starve ourselves of carbohydrates (CHO) by eating a diet high in fat and low in CHO. This theory is based around that if we only have fat available to use for energy, our bodies will adapt and utilise more of this for energy production.
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Economy of Movement: Reducing Your Energy Wastage
Endurance performance has so far been made up of maximising VO₂ max and functional capacity. Movement economy is the second last physiological determinant of endurance performance before moving into external and nutritional influences. Movement economy refers to the efficiency at which somebody moves from one point to another.