Episode 362: Low Carb Endurance - Debbie Potts
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Debbie Potts joined the show to discuss some topics around low carbohydrate endurance training and fueling. Debbie Potts has been a podcast host for over ten years and currently is the host of 'The Low Carb Athlete Podcast' show and YouTube channel where she interviews experts and shares her experiments. She has been a top age group triathlete and runner as well as a 15 Ironman finisher, 5 times Ironman Hawaii World Championship qualifier and multiple Boston Marathon qualifier.
Topics Discussed:
- Fasted and fed exercise
- Are carbs evil
- Strategic carbohydrate usage
- Nutritional ketosis and fat oxidation rates
- Carnivore diet and performance optimization
- Female and male variances
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter. |
| 0:09.7 | All right, everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm your host, Zach Bitter, and today I have a guest interview for you. |
| 0:18.0 | Today's guest is Debbie Potts. |
| 0:20.3 | Debbie joined the show to discuss some topics around low carbohydrate endurance training |
| 0:25.0 | and fueling. |
| 0:26.3 | Debbie has been a podcast host for over 10 years and currently is the host of the |
| 0:30.2 | Low Carb Athlete Podcast Show and YouTube channel where she interviews experts and shares |
| 0:36.1 | her experiments. |
| 0:37.4 | She has been a top age group triathlete and runner as well as a 15 Ironman |
| 0:41.9 | finisher, five-time Ironman Hawaii World Championship qualifier and multiple-time Boston |
| 0:47.4 | marathon qualifier. |
| 0:49.4 | Debbie joined me for a conversation around some topics on low carbohydrate performance. |
| 0:53.6 | There is a lot of polarizing |
| 0:55.3 | information out there about these topics. So we thought it would be fun to just weigh in on |
| 1:00.4 | them in a sense that I think maybe helps take the spotlight off some of the polarizing |
| 1:07.1 | aspects of them and more on where there's some possible application and what you |
| 1:14.2 | should maybe look out for with them too because there is oftentimes tradeoffs with everything |
| 1:19.0 | and at the end of the day it comes down to determining for you individually where the net |
| 1:25.2 | benefit is going to be when you start organizing your nutrition |
| 1:28.3 | and focusing on things like performance. |
| 1:31.2 | So the topics we hit on today included fasted and fed exercise, are carbs evil, |
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