Episode 480: Has Endurance Fueling Bonked?
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
For this episode, I dive into some of the extremes we often see with respect to fueling strategies in endurance sports, both on the high and low end of carbohydrate consumption, and what we can make of it all.
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| 0:00.0 | And another reason why I want to do this is because I think with the way that this topic |
| 0:04.5 | gets presented online and in general in a lot of cases, we tend to look at it a little more |
| 0:10.0 | black and white or either or. |
| 0:12.3 | And a lot of times since the extremes pull a lot more attention, we get to think those |
| 0:19.8 | are kind of the options. Like, think of 150 grams per hour |
| 0:23.1 | versus 10 grams per hour. That's 15 times difference. In my opinion, competitive pressure |
| 0:28.2 | is the gold standard with respect to a limiting bias because the bias there is actually just |
| 0:34.6 | performance. It is trying to win. So these are performance claims. These type of |
| 0:39.2 | headlines, these type of posts, these are making performance claims. So once you do that, |
| 0:45.1 | you are going to inevitably draw attention. And once you draw attention, what's going to happen is |
| 0:50.3 | people who actually know what they're talking about and have looked at this stuff and played around with this stuff, research this stuff, they're going to come in and they're |
| 0:57.1 | going to push back on that because to them that looks like a false claim, that looks like you're claiming |
| 1:00.9 | something that the body of evidence that we have does not support. Thanks for tuning into this |
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