Do you find it hard to eat enough on lower carbohydrate days when you do train a lot?
I always thought it should be easy to rely more on fats, although probably most of the tasty fatty foods are packed with a lot of carbohydrates as well.
Personally sometimes I struggle to eat my calories from carbs on really big training blocks. Then I turn to a much higher fat intake, regretting I didn’t eat more on the bike.
thanks Yonatan! On my end, I don't find it particularly hard on either type of day (lower or higher carb intake), even though the fewer hours we train, the easier it is, so I would assume that at your training loads, it can be harder.
I do eat (carbs) more regularly during longer exercise sessions these days, especially now that I spend more time on the bike, and therefore train more hours wrt running, I have maybe a gel every hour (e.g. 20g cho/hour), so in a way there is always some level of carb intake even on long easy days, but it's only during, which does not seem to impact fat oxidation. Curious to test many of these aspects when I'll have the metabolic cart!
and now the met cart !!! what a dedication !! Did you buy a medical grade/hospital like device or a mere mask suitable for field testing like Calibre / Cosmed K series?
(and brace yourself for more questions as I am seriously digging your podcasts ang blog notes ;)
haha yes the met cart is a dream coming true :) so many questions to answer!
I bought a medical-grade device from Cosmed, it is portable but not wearable. No toys (Calibre, VO2master, etc.) as these are not devices that can be trusted for any serious work in terms of substrate utilization during exercise
ah thank you. (I have in mind some coaches playing with Calibre and it rises a smirk on my face !)
Sometimes I think about doing an ex phys course just to try to work in the ex phys lab one day a week to have an access to a met cart ;) The colleagues at the ex phys lab get gray hair when they see me because they now I will ask for a personnalized protocol they are not used to ;) I usually negociate with high carb cookies ahaha
Do you find it hard to eat enough on lower carbohydrate days when you do train a lot?
I always thought it should be easy to rely more on fats, although probably most of the tasty fatty foods are packed with a lot of carbohydrates as well.
Personally sometimes I struggle to eat my calories from carbs on really big training blocks. Then I turn to a much higher fat intake, regretting I didn’t eat more on the bike.
Those are just my thoughts.
Really Interesting stuff!
thanks Yonatan! On my end, I don't find it particularly hard on either type of day (lower or higher carb intake), even though the fewer hours we train, the easier it is, so I would assume that at your training loads, it can be harder.
I do eat (carbs) more regularly during longer exercise sessions these days, especially now that I spend more time on the bike, and therefore train more hours wrt running, I have maybe a gel every hour (e.g. 20g cho/hour), so in a way there is always some level of carb intake even on long easy days, but it's only during, which does not seem to impact fat oxidation. Curious to test many of these aspects when I'll have the metabolic cart!
Looking forward to read your insights🤓
and now the met cart !!! what a dedication !! Did you buy a medical grade/hospital like device or a mere mask suitable for field testing like Calibre / Cosmed K series?
(and brace yourself for more questions as I am seriously digging your podcasts ang blog notes ;)
haha yes the met cart is a dream coming true :) so many questions to answer!
I bought a medical-grade device from Cosmed, it is portable but not wearable. No toys (Calibre, VO2master, etc.) as these are not devices that can be trusted for any serious work in terms of substrate utilization during exercise
ah thank you. (I have in mind some coaches playing with Calibre and it rises a smirk on my face !)
Sometimes I think about doing an ex phys course just to try to work in the ex phys lab one day a week to have an access to a met cart ;) The colleagues at the ex phys lab get gray hair when they see me because they now I will ask for a personnalized protocol they are not used to ;) I usually negociate with high carb cookies ahaha
indeed, and I tested one, hence I have no doubts the data is (unfortunately) extremely inaccurate