Fuel for Effort, Not Speed: Why Slower Endurance Athletes Still Need Carbs
The Eat for Endurance PodcastShow Notes
In episode 114 of The Eat for Endurance Podcast, Sports Dietitian Stevie Smith, MS RD CSSD joins me for the first in a two-part series on how various factors impact how you should fuel during endurance activities. In Part 1, we discuss how exercise intensity affects fueling needs. More specifically, we tackle a question that we often hear from mid and especially back-of-the-pack athletes: “Do I really need to eat that many carbs during exercise if I’m not very fast?” Here’s what we cover to a...
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