When we excercise our muscles can grap to different energy systems to make our muscles contract : Fat Glycogen (carbs) with O2 Glycogen (carbs) without O2 ATP Energy system Time active Excercise intensity Fat days.. low Glycogen with O2 several hours moderate Glycogen without O2 several minutes high ATP 10 seconds very high The four…
Carbohydrate intake during exercise can enhance endurance exercise performance. The recommendation is to consume 30-60 g/h carbohydrate for events lasting 1 – 2.5 h and for events over 2.5 h up to 90 g/h. If more than 60g/h is ingested it is important to realise that the type of carbohydrate that is ingested is critically…
In the last three years we helped a lot of triathletes with their optimal nutrition strategy towards half distance and full distance ironman triathlons. In the spring of 2017 we introduced the NutrID Kerosine (ratio 2:1, ratio 3:2 and ratio 1:1). The three different ratios stand for three different carbohydrate intakes per hour. Ratio 2:1…