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If you go hard enough for long enough, you'll run out of glycogen. If you're not maintaining your blood glucose levels by ingesting carbohydrate, you'll go hypo
by jdietrich 7y ago
If you go hard enough for long enough, you'll run out of glycogen. If you're not maintaining your blood glucose levels by ingesting carbohydrate, you'll go hypoglycaemic and turn into a wobbly mess of useless limbs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liCRrheKIOI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liCRrheKIOI
Finishing a 70.3 on plain water is just about feasible if you're not particularly fast, but a reasonably quick amateur is going to end up bonking in spectacular fashion, let alone an elite athlete.
- rhinoceraptor 7y agoYou can’t really bonk if you’re adapted to and in ketosis. Using only carbs for athletic performance is like having a hybrid car but disconnecting your gas tank.
- juskrey 7y agoWhile training for that, bonk was my second name. Nothing morbid, nothing human can't cope with. I was not saying anyone can stand up from the bed and go long. Yet all that carb horrors are lies.