Nick Bare

I'll lean towards vegetables that provide fiber as well as a diverse portfolio of vitamins, minerals, potatoes, sweet potatoes, red potatoes, gold potatoes, starches, rice.

Those are my go-to carbohydrate sources because I know I'm not just getting the carbohydrates.

I'm getting the vitamins, the minerals, the nutrients, the fiber that comes along with them.

And if you're going to be choosing carbohydrate sources, I would gravitate towards those.

The ones that provide more nutritional value than just the carbohydrate, sugar, glucose alone.

Now in closing, carbohydrates are a fuel.

They are a fuel for our bodies.

They are a fuel for our cells.

They are a fuel for our minds.

And especially when you add on the layer of performance and training and volume and intensity, carbohydrates and glucose play, in my opinion, an even greater role for improving efficiency, effectiveness, performance, and recovery.

Again, not just physically, but mentally as well.

Your fuel, your inputs determine your outputs, your performance, your results, how you feel, how you show up.

But I would encourage you, if you are interested in a low-carb ketogenic diet, give it a try.

Consult with a doctor or a physician and

structure your diet in a way that can, in a healthy and sustainable way, allow you to reach a state, a metabolic state of ketosis.

And if that's an itch for you that you want to scratch, by all means, give it a try.

But for me and what I've learned about my body, my performance,

how I prefer to eat and feel.

Carbohydrates play a huge role in my diet, especially when I'm going into a big training block or pursuing an endurance school.

Carbohydrates make up the majority of my diet because I know that the inputs determine the outputs.