What They Don’t Tell You About High Carb Fuelling

Great to see so much interest in the science behind cycling nutrition! After watching, has it made you reconsider your own fueling strategy on the bike? 🍌 Let us know in the comments below!

Rubbish ,,,,,complete nonsense. No sugar , no fruit , no dairy for a race meal only Complex carbohydrates to release the energy without spiking blood sugar levels and insulin levels with eggs . Why eggs, protein water fat and if you get nervous they can come out your nose . The best is an omelet with eggs and sweet potatoes and salt , if you going to consume this glucose for sustained power in a real race only if it is under one hour from the time you eat it to the end. . More than likely you will get sick dizzy or vomit. My knowledge comes from our medical background in our family and as an athlete Complex carbs are released slowly and steadily without a spike / crash-so the science of humans will never change . Sweet potatoes, figs , hard cooked rice , with some eggs and salt. The eggs are like a way to fill you stomach a bit so all of the water doesn’t slosh around and helps with absorption. Oatmeal with only salt in the morning and room temp water but not too much . Helps with hydration. Coconut water as an electrolyte. We also ate fig newtons yummy and good in the pocket . Most people train wrong , eat wrong , over train . If you want to go fast , you must realize it takes proper training and rest so you can peak. Start with your ph of your body and some fresh water bottles new ones . Detox , lemons and limes , ocean fish eggs , rice and vinegar,,a Japanese diet . Train less the week before the big one with massage a couple swims some sprints for less than half of your regular training ride and have nice poops . My Go to night before meal was some sushi miso soup and one sake to help me get to sleep. Not sure about you but this advice could be dangerous. My friend a 3 time world champion and 2 time Olympian said more important is what not to eat than a taking a vitamin .

Great video, I will need to watch it a few more times to better digest the info.
But I am not understanding how to switch from Carb energy to Fat energy. Is it simply to not have the reserve of Carbs to force the Fat energy ?
Thanks again for this great video/research.

cyclic dextrin is the shit (e.g. skratch super high carb). i really wouldn't rely heavily on one lab test. your body probably wasn't in peak absorption mode. and as discussed in the video we're never fueling with straight glucose these days because it doesn't work. it's usually maltodextrin and fructose, etc. were they actually giving you maltodextrin or some other form of glucose?

Your body only requires 5g of glucose, one teaspoon of sugar in the blood at any one time. Any increase above this amount is ushered out of the blood to keep you alive, most of it into storage in the muscles. When those are full it will then start to store it in vital organs, somewhere where it’s not supposed to be, overtime causing damage, disease and malfunction. The hormone managing this system is insulin, and overtime with daily overuse becomes less able to perform this crucial task, leaving higher circulating glucose levels in the blood which starts to cause all downward spiralling diseases, the first one commonly known as diabetes. We all love to ride our bikes, and want to do it healthily throughout our lives, but proceed with caution as carbohydrates in any form are damaging to your overall health 😢

I have no idea what I’m supposed to take away from this video. Didn’t understand what that guy was saying at all

I use 81g of carbs in maple syrup with 1 LMNT packet per 1L bottle. On a 3 1/2 hour ride, I feel strong and no gut issues

can we talk about the lad's quads?

Eu estou consumindo melado de cana e olha fez uma diferença muito grande

I've been experimenting with nutrition, and for me, it seems, if I'm going to use carbs, I need a shit load, and if they run out, I bonk HARD!! I'm much better off being more metabolically flexible to reduce the need for so much glucose.

One big reason why this insanity came to be, has to be plain capitalism. No money to be made by people solely relying on fatty meat like our ancestors reliably did. Imagine us running after pray for hours, but having to restock on sugar gels, or else we'd run out of energy. We would have gone extinct a long time ago.

I think that fatten someone's up with the unique non essential macronutrient has its consequences.

1,5 years feeding myself on a animal fat (a lot) and protein exclusively (grass fed ruminant meat). Among other noticeable things, my total testosterone increased from 380 to 944 ng/dl meanwhile.

I prefer hormonal balance and be aligned with my biology as a human male and global health, than the eventual endorphins and the obsession with sport performance I had in the past.

Advice: questioning all wherever it comes, be unconventional and self-experience yourself. It's the most efficient way to empower yourself.

More unscientific information for the masses. Read Professor Timothy Knoakes studies on nutrition and carbohydrates. He is the person who literally wrote the book on carbohydrates.

Interesting info, thanks alot ❤😅

That it gets u type 2?

Pros burn 1200kcal per hour. In Zone 2 thats 50% carbs or 600kcal/hr. At higher intensities even more. So provided they can tolerate 100g they actually use it up. Weekend warriors don't need more than 60g. They don't have the power nor the duration. Actual power numbers do matter.

Dr. Podlogar is an incredible source of sports nutrition knowledge. I've learned so much about nutrition as related to my own cycling performance.