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CARB LOADING IS the practice of dramatically increasing dietary carbohydrate intake in the days preceding a race.
It’s a familiar ritual for most endurance athletes and usually follows a period of completely depleting glycogen stores to work most effectively. But it’s seldom necessary.
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Research has shown carb loading has no effect on performance in races lasting less than about 90 minutes.
So the idea of downing four plates of pasta and three loaves of bread is more likely to leave you feeling bloated and sluggish.
Eating late at night will make you fat
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Shutterstock / Yuganov Konstantin / Yuganov Konstantin
Calories are calories, no matter what time they’re eaten. There is no hour in which your body decides that incoming calories must be stored as fat.
So when it comes to the overall pattern of weight gain and loss, it doesn’t matter if you eat your calories at 5am, getting up or going to bed, or midnight, your body uses them to fuel the execution of basic bodily functions.
More protein means more muscle growth
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AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images
Wrong. Stop wasting money on protein now.
Your body can process only so much protein in a single sitting. Studies have shown that consuming 90 grams of protein at one meal provides the same benefit as eating 30 grams.
The study concluded there’s only so much you can put in to maximize performance.
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Carb loading is a must
CARB LOADING IS the practice of dramatically increasing dietary carbohydrate intake in the days preceding a race.
It’s a familiar ritual for most endurance athletes and usually follows a period of completely depleting glycogen stores to work most effectively. But it’s seldom necessary.
Research has shown carb loading has no effect on performance in races lasting less than about 90 minutes.
So the idea of downing four plates of pasta and three loaves of bread is more likely to leave you feeling bloated and sluggish.
Eating late at night will make you fat
Calories are calories, no matter what time they’re eaten. There is no hour in which your body decides that incoming calories must be stored as fat.
So when it comes to the overall pattern of weight gain and loss, it doesn’t matter if you eat your calories at 5am, getting up or going to bed, or midnight, your body uses them to fuel the execution of basic bodily functions.
More protein means more muscle growth
Wrong. Stop wasting money on protein now.
Your body can process only so much protein in a single sitting. Studies have shown that consuming 90 grams of protein at one meal provides the same benefit as eating 30 grams.
The study concluded there’s only so much you can put in to maximize performance.
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