[Rammer]

There is a reason serious athletes “carbo-load” before a strenuous event - so their muscles will have energy to burn down the stretch.

The reason is because many athletes made erroneous assumptions and conclusions about research that showed glycogen supercompensation for a period of 24-48 hours after sever glycogen depletion.

If muscular tissue is not in a state of severe/extreme glycogen depletion prior to loading then supercompensation will not occur.

More recent research has indicated that performance is not improved from carbohydrate loading if there is not any glycogen depletion beforehand.

This is some of the basis surrounding Cyclical Ketogenic Diets.

[allmendream]

“Supercompensation” perhaps not, but they will not find themselves out of readily available energy ‘down the home stretch’ if they ate a good load of carbs prior to the event.

My point is that there is an obvious difference between a “carbo load” and a “sugar load” and that while athletes often do the former, none seem to do the latter. Thus there is a fundamental and acted upon difference in dietary intake of carbohydrates and sugars.