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Am I wasting my time trying to get better at fat burning?
If you are a good fat burner then you may not burn through as much glycogen and are then able to eat enough to replenish through normal food.
Ummmm... 'cycling is an aerobic sport, dammit' so yes you should get good at burning fat and save your sugars for dropping those sprinter Watt Bombs!
Good work on the number improvements Kryton. Over what duration is the 1200w sprint max number?
@Kryton57 - My wife makes up these energy balls for me, hey are a mix of dried apricots, dates, variosu nuts, with a bit of apple juice and nut butter to bind them. whizzed up in magimix, shaped, into 1 inch balls and put in fridge to set. They basically disolved in the mouth but give a good boost. I don't use them for racing but for training / general riding they are good, healthier and cheaper than gels IMO. haste and texture is like a high5 energ bar but without any preservaitves etc.
Interesting thread, seems to be a hell of a lot of food for only 6hrs training a week...
Everyone is different, I found that I have roughly 2000-2500calories in my legs on a given session depending on pre prep. No amount of carb loading / stuffing my face (whether with drinks or proper food) made any difference to that. A 3hr threshold (166bpm/250w) session would empty that completely, and without a gel in the middle I would suffer.
I used to look at previous race data at calorie burn / duration and use that to calculate roughly how many extra calories I needed to take in, and start early becayse as above I could only absorb so much an hour - about 1 bottle of drink and 2 gels upto a max of 3/6 after that I felt sick
I do tend to stick to proper food these days rather than energy drinks and gels, but then again my training has dropped right off from 15 odd hrs a week and a longer ride these days is 2hrs not like the 100milers I used to do 🙁
Interesting thread, seems to be a hell of a lot of food for only 6hrs training a week…
He's only carbo loading for a few days.. he doesn't eat 600g of carbs every day.