Carbohydrates

In a an age where low carb-high protein diets are 'the shit' one can be forgiven for not realising that carbohydrates play an essential part in everyday nutrition. The scary thing is, they play an even more important part in sports nutrition.

I say scary because an awful lot of fitness magazines give you allsorts of crazy advice about carbohydrates...

'don't eat fruit, it's full of sugar'

'carbs before bed will make you fat'

In this chapter i'm going to try to explain the importance of carbohydrate. I'm going to try to explain proper glycogen replenishment and why it's vitally importance. I'm going to go into 'carb loading'

I'm also going to go into the GI index, as well as touch upon pre and post exercise carbohydrate.

Finally i'll explain how to work out, how much carbohydrate you need for your particular sport while hopefully dispelling a few myths along the way.

to be continued....


ps, my pc isn't available for me to use at home so this thread may be slow for a few days. Please be patient