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We train to become more efficient at a given task. But what about your nutrition? Are you building efficiency and agility into your nutrition too? Although rigidity in diet appears to the way, it is in fact a roadblock. The past few decades have seen a LOT of debate around the role of carbohydrates for training, competition, and health. The unfortunate thing is that time after time this topic always seems to boil down to an over-simplistic and highly rigid dichotomy of low carb or high carb when this type of thinking just gets in the way of understanding what is important.
To maximise your performance carbohydrates are going to be important – very important – but remember metabolic flexibility and adaptability with substrate use are how you build resilience. It’s time to throw out the high carb, low carb debate and move with the research which outlines a case for periodised carbohydrate use and fuelling for the work being done. Here’s how to look at carbohydrates in terms of optimising energy availability, building capacity and driving metabolic flexibility for grade A performance.
The fact is, how you chose to fuel your training will depend on the work being done but building the capacity to do work should be your number one focus when planning nutrition. This is going to mean understanding your workload, the intended focus of the sessions you have, and the energy systems involved in these tasks.
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