if you are doing long workouts you should have some carbs.. low carb diets work because they keep the glycogen reserves in the liver/muscles fairly low, and that kicks the body over into a ketone pathway (gluconeogenesis) metabolism from a glycogen pathway (glycogenolysis) metabolism.
so you can (and should) have carbs if you are actively burning them with high work output, essentially. to combine heavy or long workouts with low-carb simply requires you to plan carb intake (above 20g at once, or above 60g per day) only on days when you are actually burning through them. in fact, doing high-carb/workout days interspersed with very low carb days (2-4 at a time) is an old-skool way of stripping off body fat very quickly, called things like macronutrient cycling, carb refeeding, etc. best, andrew On Jan 6, 2011, at 11:37 AM, reynoldslugs wrote: > > Friends: > > I have gone back and forth with low carbohydrate diets, and they work > ok for me, but for one significant problem: > > How can one possibly do long rides on a low carbohydrate regimen? > > Here is my query to the group: > > I cannot figure out how to do a long ride - - say, anything more than > 3 hours, or certainly something in the 8 - 10 hour range - - without > consuming lots of carbohydrates. > > How do those of you that ascribe to this nutritional plan get through > multi-hour rides? > > RL > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
