original wrote:
Andrew Coggan wrote:
cartsman wrote:
Seems to me that the important thing to improving is increasing the training load/stress, which is a combination of time and intensity. How best to do that (i.e. how best to skin the cat) depends on your personal strengths/limiters.A.k.a., "it's your glycogen budget - spend it wisely."
I disagree for the sake of endurance training because glycogen is exhausted after about 90-120 minutes and then you switch to other fuels- either you burn fat, muscle, or you eat while training.
You seem to have missed my point. Yes, you will run low on glycogen after a couple hours of *high intensity* exercise, such that after that you must reduce the intensity. There is also a limit to the rate of glycogen resynthesis, even if you consume a high carbohydrate diet. Ergo, when faced with such constraints, you should design your training program accordingly.
ETA: CHO supplementation during exercise can enhance performance, but at the end of the day, there is a limit to which plasma-borne glucose can substitute for muscle glycogen.
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Andrew Coggan: Jan 7, 18 11:55