Records fell at this weekend's Hardrock 100, where both Ludo Pommeret & Courtney Dauwalter took down course records. #HR100
Find out how the race played out: https://t.co/f8cXH40Vtn
So here it is. There is a direct brain effect of carbohydrates that improve athletic performance and which is independent of a metabolic effect in the exercising muscles. But all the arguments, except that proposed by @PaulBLaursen, are that ingesting >100g carbohydrate per hour improves performance through a metabolic effect (which we have proved can't be the reasons). Now we can all take a big sigh of relief and get on with properly understanding this and related phenomena.
AND we can perhaps also decide who we should be advising to use this expensive and difficult to implement technique, to improve their exercise performance that final small percent. I'm suggesting it should be restricted to only that small group of athletes at the peak performance edge of sport. And let's tell all the other runners why they will do perfectly well on 10-20g carbs per hour during prolonged exercise.
@PhilipPrins11@AKoutnik@PaulBLaursen@sweatscience@zbitter@Brady_H@MountainRoche@theplews1@CarynZinn@DrPhilMaffetone@LoreofRunning1@CoachFergie
@RamonesOfficial@PunKandStuff Innovation and insiration often come from the naivety of not knowing what you are doing. How fitting.....as soon as you know what you are doing, it's old!!!