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I'm your host Cody McBroom and today we have our chief science officer, Dr. Brandon Roberts, jumping on the

podcast to cover a brief topic on carbohydrates for strength training. What he is going to cover

specifically is kind of carbs 101 when it comes to training. What do they do? How important are

they? And what information can you take and actually apply into your diet for

better strength training there is a lot of information out there on carbs being fundamental for

performance and there's a lot of keto zealots intermittent fasting and people who train fasted

and so on and so forth who say carbs make no difference as long as you eat enough food

and then there's all these people right in between. So today we're

going to cover specifically what you actually need to know, what matters most, and then what is

kind of splitting hairs? How do we get into the nitty gritty when it comes to carbohydrates for

strength training? He's also going to discuss a recent meta analysis, which I'm excited for him to

cover. It's something that I sent his way. and I was excited when I saw it being discussed,

and I heard that it was coming out.

And it's essentially looking at all the research on intra-workout carbohydrates

because there has been a ton of debate in this realm.

There is the intra-workout carbs for endurance athletes, which the research is very clear.

That's very, very important because if you're running for eight hours straight in a marathon,

yeah, you need to replenish glycogen.

But then there's this other side that people are pushing intra-workout carbs for bodybuilding

or strength training, and the workouts might be 30 minutes, 45 minutes an hour long.

They may not warrant

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