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I have been on a Keto diet for 4 months, for those of you that don;t know this is basically a very low level of carbs.
In that time my calorie intake is basically the same but lost 10kg and even more benefit is I can compete say the Rise above sportive on no extra food during it. For training rides, can do 4 hours easy and my stats after an initial expected fall once fat adapted now storming up in front and constantly breaking Strava PB’s.
None of this stuffing gels, or trying to eat a bar, or waiting at food stops to get a bannana. Nope just fill up the bottle and go. I compete last years Marmotte in 11 hours and usual thing of needing food with me, this year doing it again, aiming for up to three hours quicker and saving about an hour with no stopping.
The benefits as I see it are enormous, we know Chris Froome does it and I suspect most of the pro peloton at stages in their training.
So for the good readers here, what are you experiences if on Keto, have you thought about it and how many of you suffer from ‘stomach issues’ as I used to do with gels etc.
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It didn’t take long.
Do you live and train like a top athlete? No. Do you compete against and beat top athletes? No. Is IanRobo claiming to do that? Not that I can see.
Have you tried it? If not then how do you know it doesn’t work?
I’m all for healthy debate, debunking myths and marketing guff but your post is typical of the unhelpful, inflammatory bollocks some people feel they need to throw into these discussions.
[/quote]there’s a world of nutrition research out there, in peer-reviewed publications. That’s how you know whether or not things work, not by personal experience or by anectodal evidence of a single data point.
It seems perfectly reasonable to me to ask why top athletes aren’t using the latest magic/science given the resources available to them, and in the case of cycling the apparent willngness to do the dodgiest things to their bodies. And if they’re not using it it seems reasonable to suppose that it’s because it doesn’t work, or because it has long-term ill effects.
it’s interesting to read what ianrobo is doing, but on its own it’s no proof of anything.
It didn’t take long.If it is soo wonderful then why are the top athletes still consuming carbs. Also where is your power data, you are just have anecdotal evidence, did your 5min power increase by 10 % or your 3 hour power increase by 10% or is it that you just ‘feel’ better. I would love to see this data as thus far no one is willing to share, not even Timmothy Noakes says which athletes are full keto.
Do you live and train like a top athlete? No. Do you compete against and beat top athletes? No. Is IanRobo claiming to do that? Not that I can see.
Have you tried it? If not then how do you know it doesn’t work?
I’m all for healthy debate, debunking myths and marketing guff but your post is typical of the unhelpful, inflammatory bollocks some people feel they need to throw into these discussions.
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