Athletes DON'T need Carbs!

Yes... I'm feeling Cheeky...

0:00 - Intro
0:22 - FASTER
1:14 - Peak fat oxidation
2:10 - Muscle glycogen
3:34 - Summary and "spicy sauce"
4:13 - Let's go back in time!

[Veritas-TheGoader]

I don’t like very many videos, only because I don’t like that it creates a playlist, but so impressed on the push ups of now and then, that I had to.
As retired army, and the tens of thousands of pushups I’ve done, I can say, you are the best I’ve seen, from form to strength to endurance to the count.

[TyRaff]

I used to eat every 2.5 hours when I was a football player, and took lifting seriously.

In my late 20s I switched to tennis to try to find a life long sport kinder to my body. My first couple years were rough with me getting hangry and hitting a wall a couple hours after eating if I didn't bring enough dextrose with me.

After switching to a high fat diet, I became more level headed on the court (everyone gets frustrated and angry sometimes), but most importantly to me, I don't get distracted by hunger. My main limiting factore (athletically speaking, aside from skill) is how long I've been awake. I'm terrible if my matches go past 8pm. Otherwise, I'm playing better and feeling better than I did pounding dextrose at every changeover.

[pmfith]

You just made me tear apart my computer speaker system, thinking the right speaker wasn't working...

[skysurferboy]

Watching you do those push ups made ME feel tired! I had to go have a lie down and eat a slab of cookies to recover 😉. Joking aside I'm no scientist or doctor but I'm loving learning about lipids, biochemistry, energy and metabolism from the Keto community and from your videos. I've only just started with pushups but I can see I've got some catching up to do. Great video Nick!

[vannahhall]

Ah-ha! You've been determined to shatter the status quo for a long time. Cool to see your determination back in high school and understand how a guy finishes a PhD and then takes on med school. You rock

[OneDougUnderPar]

The only time I didn't feel completely exhausted during a soccer game was after a 5 day fast with a 2 day keto refeed. We were playing the whole game a man short and I play defense. My sprint was significantly slower, even at the start of the match, but I didn't have that wasted feeling in my lungs and legs like I would otherwise.

I heard once that it takes a cheetah about a week to recover from a full chase, but I can't for the life of me find a source on that. I absolutely love sprinting, it's all I want to do when running or cycling so it's good to read that muscle glycogen seems to recover easily from extended aerobic exercise, but I'd want to see a study done on anaerobic effort recovery as well. The current belief seems to be that you need to cram carbs immediately after strong anaerobic efforts otherwise it will take a week or more for muscle glycogen stores to recover. If I were able to self test, I'd live keto but test eating carbs after sprinting sessions.

I want to do more keto stuff, but annoyingly I don't live alone anymore, and don't have as much control over my diet as I'd like. I'm fully saturated though! No more sunburns - possible future video?

[MyFatAdaptedLife]

What are carbs? I've been fat-adapted for three years thanks to carnivore. I run 100 miles a week on ruminants, water & salt. Three Sundays ago, I sprinted across the marathon finish line with yet another Boston Marathon qualifying time.

[loradouglas]

I’ve been following you since the beginning. Can’t wait to see what you accomplish next. So inspiring!

[Ronlawhouston]

My ex wife started a low carb craze in her running group. The people in that group got leaner and stronger. They improved their times. They had less inflammation and pain.

[TotalEquilibrium]

When it comes to diets we all have different requirements. I consume moderate carbs, have been training around 27 years and still have the energy and vitality of my youth.
I test blood sugar once a month and its fine.
Of course for others different strategies will work better for them.
Would be interesting to see results from long term studies into the same concept but over years/decades

[simonround]

I had a very interesting and unexpected experience when I went low carb two years ago. I did it to lose a few pounds and as a regular runner I fully expected to suffer in my Saturday track session. This did indeed happen for a few weeks. However around six months later I experienced a sudden leap in fitness. From languishing in the middle of the pack I was suddenly near the front with people 30 years younger than me (I'm in my 50s). I lost some weight and that probably helped but it was such a striking improvement that everybody was asking me what my secret was.

[DeannaBevSchlobohm]

Really enjoying your channel Nick. Learning heaps. I’m 53 and carnivore (6 months) and almost a LMHR apart from slightly elevated TAG. This past month I have lowered protein and increased fat to 80/20 so hoping this might help the TAG. When I run my endurance is great but still feel weak going uphill compared to pre-carnivore. Is it worth adding a small amount of carbs back into my diet? If so how many grams would be a good starting point? I’d be grateful for your thoughts.

[PhiIosophyGeek]

You're a beast! Thanks, I really enjoyed this video

[oldmango]

both informative and entertaining. Actions speak louder than words even if only N=1. Thanks

[stepheneaston]

I think this is right.

I am no athlete but I eat relatively low carb. Am 56 and cycle circa 30-45 miles nearly every morning before eating or consuming any calorific drink. My average speed is good for my age and I only feel exhausted when I occasionally push the distance beyond the upper range. Will typically have last eaten 12 hours earlier the previous evening. Contrary to the “advice” from the cycling industry I find no need to consume any energy bars or energy drinks while I ride. Ever. It seems that the body is fat burning.

My reflection is that a lot of companies want to push the “eat carbs” message so they can sell artificial sports “foods”. Before I went low carb I weighed 103kg with a BMI trending to 30. Am now 73kg and have been in that range for 4 years now.

Your videos are very informative. Thank you.

[coughcool]

could just be me but I only have audio on the left channel on this video

[infintecatvids]

Sick one handed push up flex at the end 🤣

[jeffg]

Bro! Muscle ups at the end! Gawd dang!

[lloydhlavac]

I'll tell you right now, as a former part time athlete for over 25 years in the sport of bicycle racing, I will watch any video related to low carb no carbs effect on athletic performance, and I found this video particularly interesting in regards to what you said about muscle glycogen. Dr Anthony Chaffee recently posted a video along these lines, and I mentioned the "explosive" effort nature of bicycle racing, in which you are required to put in many sprint-like efforts during the course of a race, compared to longer steady state efforts such as marathon running, and he replied that he felt fine in his intense efforts of his chosen sport of rugby. I ended my racing career way back in 2008, way before I ever even heard of a low carb or even carnivore way of eating, and it would have been interesting to have known and tried it out back then to see how it might have affected my own athletic performance. Plus I always had trouble trying to get as lean as I should have been, as every extra pound of body fat makes a huge difference in a sport like bicycle racing, but carbs were always pushed as the fuel of choice, and I made sure to eat PLENTY of them, and then some, so eating the low carb way might have helped me with that. Thank for this video, oh forever the king of pushups, Nick!

[brdahl]

Wow! I am so glad you posted some of your athletic abilities. I would have never guessed you were that accomplished of an athlete! Really amazing! I have always appreciated and respected the way you speak, more specifically, the way you convey knowledge in a logical open manner, inviting conversations with experts in the field of metabolic health. I am struggling with losing visceral fat, and very little seems to work, aside from fasting, which works temporarily. I really appreciate your posts and information, I feel you are a very intelligent person beyond what people see. I know two other people in fairly high positions, one in science and one in the political arena. The one in science conveys information very similar to you. No detail is left out! LOL. You surprised me greatly with your athletic ability! Ha ha ha, a power up in the background! Ha ha ha, awesome job! You are an amazing person and scientist! Thank you!