Fueling for an ultraendurance kind of event is daunting and there’s a lot of information out there. Some good, some not so good. So my goal today is to help sort through things through an evidence-informed position and figure out how to best fuel for something like the Dirty Kanza. I’ll talk about substrate utilization, high carb vs low carb, nutritional periodization, training the gut, and more.
Show Notes / Resources Cited:
Training the Gut For Athletes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28332114
Re-Examining High Fat Diets for Performance: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4672014/pdf/40279_2015_Article_393.pdf
ISSN Position Paper on Single Stage Ultras: https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12970-019-0312-9
Swifter, Higher, Stronger: What’s on the Menu? https://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6416/781
Regulation of Muscle Glycogen Metabolism During Exercise: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29498691