Are Carbs Necessary for Optimum Performance? Experts Weigh In - SUPER CUT
Mark Bell's Power Project
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🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
In this SUPER CUT, the crew and guests talk about how to utilize carbs and whether or not they're even necessary for performance.
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How the Keto Diet Became So Popular
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“Humans Are Optimal on a Carnivorous Diet” - Dr. Anthony Chaffee || MBPP Ep. 897
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Most Common Keto Mistakes
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Can You Still Perform at a High Level with No Carbs?
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Flex Wheeler Competed On A Low Carb Diet - Meathead Clubhouse
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Take Control of Your Health: Ditch Carbs, Sugar, and Alcohol for a Better You
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Mark Bell's 10 Minute Walk Talk - The War on Carbs
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Fueling Your Workouts: My Updated Approach to Carbs and Body Weight Management
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Luis Villasenor Breaks Down the "Protein Sparing Modified Fast"
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0:00-0:40 Introduction
0:41-21:34 Baker & Efferding Discuss Carbs & Performance
21:35-31:53 War on Carbs Diet
31:54-38:51 How to Cycle Carbohydrates
38:52-56:05 Jon Andersen on Why He Cut Carbs
56:06-1:00:35 Flex Wheeler Eating Zero Carbs
1:00:36-1:06:12 How to Build Muscle with No Carbs
1:06:13-1:14:05 Carnivore Diet Optimal for Humans
1:14:06-1:19:34 Mark's Current Approach to Carbs
1:19:35-1:19:56 Outro
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | why the shift away from carbohydrates completely? |
| 0:02.2 | Because I am a full-blown sugar addict. |
| 0:06.7 | Carbohydrates are for the fucking week. |
| 0:09.9 | How well can people perform on a diet that doesn't really have hardly any carbohydrates? |
| 0:14.6 | Who are the biggest, strongest guys on the planet? |
| 0:17.1 | Bodybuilders, they're all eating carbohydrates as well. |
| 0:19.5 | Can you build muscle without carbohydrates? |
| 0:21.2 | Sure you can. |
| 0:22.0 | Is it the most optimal? Probably not. |
| 0:23.7 | If I was a bodybuilder, how I utilize the high carb date would be different than if I was a powerlifter. |
| 0:28.8 | I had to start taking drastic measures and going, you know, anywhere from one to two and even sometimes a little bit over |
| 0:35.0 | three months zero carbs. |
| 0:37.4 | You need to eat carbs for high performance training. |
| 0:39.9 | You need to eat carbs to burn carbs. |
| 0:41.2 | Stan Effording and Dr. Sean Baker. |
| 0:43.9 | We were talking earlier about carbohydrates and kind of how they can help with, you know, |
| 0:50.3 | I guess somebody making their diet more optimal for performance and things like that and so |
| 0:58.7 | You were kind of mentioning that you know to have it having good amount of protein in your diet is something that is going to help with |
| 1:05.4 | protein synthesis and stuff like that. So I'd like to open up some dialogue and talk about |
| 1:09.3 | this a little bit more because there are people that like if I say like war on carbs if I say like I like |
| 1:15.4 | you know eating meat or it's World Carnivore month people like well why don't you just |
| 1:19.0 | eat carbs and for me it's not necessarily that the carbs are going to do anything bad. |
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