Welcome to the Get Fit Guys, quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield. I'm the Get Fit Guy, and this is part two of our series on what to eat

for breakfast before a big workout or a big race. Now in the last episode you learned all about blood glucose,

storage carbohydrates, and how to keep your carbohydrate levels topped off, whether that be for

a triathlon, a marathon, an obstacle race, a big workout, or any other intense or voluminous event.

And in this episode, we're going to delve more into fats and proteins.

If you want to access last week's episode, just go to quick and dirty tips.com

slash get fit guy 244. And if you want to access the show notes and all the studies that I mentioned

in this week's episode, head over to quick and dirty tips.com slash get fit guy 245.

As you learned in last week's episode, carbohydrates are going to be necessary to a certain

extent for some of these big workouts or races, but there's more to life than carbs.

For example, there's fat.

Consumption of a high fat meal, pre-exercise, has actually been shown to alter what's

called your substrate supply before exercise and lead to increased free fatty acid levels in your

blood, which could then increase fat metabolism during exercise and either preserve some of your

precious and limited storage carbohydrate stores,

or at least attenuate the normal rate of carbohydrate depletion.

Now, it's important to understand that this is mostly anecdotal, and the effects of consuming

a high-fat meal on subsequent exercise performance is not something widely acknowledged or proven. Now, there is an

exception. It has been noted that in fat adapted athlete to have followed a high fat diet for more

than six months, that's also known as a ketogenic diet, can sustain their athletic performance

on a high fat diet or a high fat pre-workout or pre-race meal

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