I think you've identified your problem: You say you've *tried* to lose weight and get your body fat percentage down. I don't think many successful (note the caveat) elite athletes *try* to lose weight or reduce their body fat percentage, it's simply the result of years of intelligent training and eating well.
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Re: How Can Elite Athletes with Low Body Fat Not Affect Performance? [trime]
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Nope, I ate my last donuts before the Olympic Games in Beijing, yesteday. heheh It was one with sugar on top and chocolate in it. Nhammyyy
I have a healthy diet throughout the year and sometimes I need to eat this kinda of stuff to keep the BF on the 7-9% range, cause I restrict so much the intake of sat. fat. As I said, I was below 5% last year and then I never ate any donuts.. that's the difference! I had only 2 weeks off training, eating all the donuts I could cause this is not a great deal of time and I have to gain some weight to secure a nice recovery from my season and to go thru winter.
Anyway, a healthy diet doesn't mean you CAN'T eat donuts at all. When I say donuts it's every king of sweets of course. The healthier diet is the one where you can eat say one or two donuts a week without any concern cause you eat healthy in every other meal.
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Nope, I ate my last donuts before the Olympic Games in Beijing, yesteday. heheh It was one with sugar on top and chocolate in it. Nhammyyy
I have a healthy diet throughout the year and sometimes I need to eat this kinda of stuff to keep the BF on the 7-9% range, cause I restrict so much the intake of sat. fat. As I said, I was below 5% last year and then I never ate any donuts.. that's the difference! I had only 2 weeks off training, eating all the donuts I could cause this is not a great deal of time and I have to gain some weight to secure a nice recovery from my season and to go thru winter.
Anyway, a healthy diet doesn't mean you CAN'T eat donuts at all. When I say donuts it's every king of sweets of course. The healthier diet is the one where you can eat say one or two donuts a week without any concern cause you eat healthy in every other meal.
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