The big question on so many endurance athletes lips - should I try the low carb high fat diet to improve performance? Maybe you’ve had a coach feel successful with this method or maybe you’ve watched a persuasive documentary on one of the streaming services.
To answer this big question, I brought in the big guns, Professor Louise Burke OAM. Affectionately dubbed the godmother of sports nutrition, she is an Australian sports dietitian with over 40 years of experience! She is the author of over 350 papers in peer reviewed journals and book chapters and is the brains behind the Supernova research series looking at the LCHF diet in elite race walkers.
On the podcast, I asked her the big questions:
Tune in! It’s a goodie!
LINKS:
Connect with Louise Burke on Twitter
To get your nerd on, dive deeper into some of the more recent LCHF literature with these key papers:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32697366/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32497061/
Triathlon Nutrition Calculator: Check how well you’re doing when it comes to your nutrition:
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