Nick Bare

I mean, it's going to be really hard.

You can more easily deplete glycogen from endurance training.

I believe that when it comes to endurance training, running, cycling, swimming, carbohydrates are much more necessary, critical, important.

Like when I'm running a lot,

I'm consuming a ton of carbs when I'm running less and strength training more.

I'm still eating a decent amount of carbs, but not as much when my endurance training increases.

Carbohydrates, in my opinion, it is the name of the game for endurance training.

I think there's a hard way to argue against it.

Some people, um,

do train for these lower intensity ultra marathons or endurance efforts on a low carb ketogenic diet.

But for those same individuals, a lot of times when they go to race, they introduce high carb into their race and competition strategy.

I just think that for...

When it comes to endurance training, carbs are king.

When it comes to strength training, carbs are still great, but not as necessary, especially not as necessary at the same amounts or dosages as endurance training.

What's interesting about glycogen, you know, our muscles store carbohydrates and

in the form of glycogen, as I've said, in the muscles and in the liver.

And our bodies, if we don't have glucose accessible in the bloodstream, can tap into the glycogen, break down, use that glucose for energy pretty effectively and efficiently.

You can store roughly 400 to 700 grams of carbohydrates as glycogen in the muscles and about 80 to 100 grams of carbohydrates as glycogen in the liver.

So I mean, some of us can store upwards of 800 grams of carbohydrates as glycogen that we can tap into when we need it.

This is why we carbohydrate load for endurance races or big efforts or big training blocks and days.