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Carbohydrate Loading
Aka: Carbohydrate Loading
- See Also
- Nutrition for Athletes
- Efficacy
- No benefit for events shorter than 1 hour
- Classic Regimen
- Days 1 to 3
- Intense exhaustive Exercise
- Keep carbohydrates under 10% of total calories
- Depletes muscle glycogen stores
- Days 4 to 6
- Increase carbohydrates to over 80% of calories
- Day 7: Competitive Event
- Pre-event meal carbohydrates over 80% of calories
- Modified Regimen
- Days 1 to 3
- Moderate carbohydrate diet (50% of calories)
- Days 4 to 6
- High carbohydrate diet (80% of calories)
- Day 7: Competitive Event
- Pre-event meal carbohydrates over 80% of calories
- References
- Hawley (1997) Eur J Appl Physiol Occup Physiol 75:407 [PubMed]