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You're not really listening properly at all.
Pot kettle and black. Really molgrips - have a think. I have tried to point out to you where you might have got things a bit muddled but you won't listen. However giving your bizzare advice to others?
You have a mix of half understood stuff and marketing bollox. I don't know it all but I know enough to know that much of what you say is utter bobbins.
Once again you resort to insults.
You've pointed it out, I've rebutted it. You, on the other hand, just keep repeating the same thing all the time.
Once again - you can't get blood sugar spikes from small amounts of carbs taken very regularly. How could you? The idea is to consistently top up your blood sugar so it doesn't go low as a result of using up muscle glycogen stores.
My advice is not bizarre. It's not even MY advice, it's generally accepted practice.
Are you even reading my whole posts? I am beginning to doubt this since you never address all my points.
FFS ladies.
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I think you two just need to agree to disagree on this. No?
molgrips - have you tested that theory out ?
1.5 kg of maltodextrin !
vomit tastic !
I didn't sit down and plough through 1.5kg of maltodextrin in one go, nor would I encourage anyone else to do it.
What TJ was getting at, I think, is that for racing the suggested maximum rate of absorbtion of carbs is 1g/kg body weight/hour. For a 70kg rider this would be about 1.5kg over a whole 24 hour race if you only drank that. Of course in practice you can only drink so much energy drink, so you'd have to drink a bit less than that and eat energy bars, real food and sweets/snacks etc, which is what I did for a solo Mayhem.
You know when your tummy's had enough.
I really dunno where TJ gets the idea that my recipe for success is 1.5kg of maltodextrin chugged. The aim is to eat/drink regularly and often so your blood sugar stays as consistent as possible, and DOESN'T spike.
I think he's arguing against energy drinks because someone once told him that drinking sugary drinks causes blood sugar spikes. If you down a can of coke whilst at rest and not having exercised at all, it probably does, however the situation is completely different when you're racing. In any case, a sugar spike followed by an insulin spike can be a good thing if your muscle glycogen stores are low because it promotes the uptake of the sugar from your blood into your muscles, which is exactly what you want when stores are depleted. This is why recovery drink is good.
Molgrips - you told the guy to take 1g of maltodextrin per kilo of bodyweight per hour for the 24 hrs. Dreadful advice for someone in the position he was in.
Much else of what you say is just confused. You have contradicted yourself on this thread.
I am not arguing against energy drinks - I am arguing against your dangerous and illfounded advice. Please stop with it.
Molgrips
1.5kg of maltodextrin is only 5700 calories which, if you are riding 24 hours solo is only 240kcal per hour. So you need far more calories than that.
is that for racing the suggested maximum rate of absorbtion of carbs is 1g/kg body weight/hour.
bit of speed does the trick! trouble is u cant sleep much day after! 😕
How much should one drink then?
high 5 4:1 for me. does the job.
I have about 60kg of it a day. stick that up yer bum TJ.