How To Use The Carbohydrate Combustion Rate To Create Fuelling Strategies For Racing
Updated: May 25, 2022
Runners, triathletes and cyclists testing with INSCYD get a valuable insight into their carbohydrate and fat combustion rates. These features are essential when planning your training and racing strategies.
Do You Want To Go Faster?
Now you know what influences your pacing plan, you also know what to do to go faster:
1. Combust less carbohydrates at the same pace
To do so, you need energy from a different source: fat.
• Learn everything about fat combustion and FatMax, and how to increase it by training
• Increase fat combustion by increasing VO2max: learn at which intensity to do you
• Decrease your carb combustion by decreasing VLamax: get 5 training tips on how to
2. Increase your glycogen stores
As said, it’s not easy to do so. But a good starting point is:
• Learn everything you need to know about glycogen