Carbohydrates: Friend or Foe

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Carbohydrates can be very easy to overconsume, either in a liquid or solid form. This is one of the reasons why carbs have been labeled the bad guy.  

Let’s start with carbohydrates and weight loss. Reduced calorie diets result in clinically meaningful weight loss, regardless of the macronutrients they emphasize.  

And a calorie surplus diet will make you gain weight, even if you keep your carbohydrate intake less.

So you see, Carbs are NOT the bad guy.

In fact, carbs can actually aid performance. 

 The key is knowing how to use the right ones in the right amounts at the right times.  

It is recommended keeping your carb intake relatively consistent across the week. I think having different targets for low volume, medium and high volume training each day is way too confusing for most! 

 Moving away from a “diet” and implementing a “lifestyle” is how you will make sustained progress.  

 A crucial element to achieve this is eating the right foods at the right times in the right amounts.

​​𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗯𝘀 𝗱𝗼 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗮𝘁. 𝗔𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀.  

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