The Flaws in Common Nutrition Advice For Endurance Athletes: Wade Lightheart
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
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🗓️ 22 June 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Our bodies are amazing and they are surprisingly individual. One person could eat loaves of Wonder Bread with negligible effects to blood sugar while another person's levels would skyrocket. Science doesn't quite understand why there are such dramatic differences, but we know that they are there.
So what does this mean for the average athlete? How does our fueling and overall nutrition need to change to work with our own unique metabolism?
These are the questions that Wade Lightheart is on a mission to answer. You'll learn:
- Why standard nutrition advice for runners is flawed
- How to figure out what your unique body needs and
- How testing and data collection can help
If you are looking to optimize your nutrition scientifically, this is the episode for you.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is way T. Lightheart and you are listening to the Run to the Top Podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi there, my running friend, |
| 0:20.0 | this is Coach Claire Bartholic, the Planted Runner. |
| 0:23.2 | And this is the Run to the Top Podcast, |
| 0:25.5 | one of the first and only running podcast dedicated |
| 0:28.3 | to making you a better runner with each and every episode. |
| 0:31.9 | We are created and produced by the expert team |
| 0:34.6 | of running coaches at runnersconnect.net |
| 0:37.7 | where you can find the best running information on the internet |
| 0:41.0 | as well as running coaching plans to fit every runner and every budget. |
| 0:47.0 | What if everything you've learned about nutrition for runners was wrong? |
| 0:54.0 | No, I'm not talking about some conspiracy theory that claims that decades of research on endurance |
| 0:59.6 | athletes is suddenly proven to be obsolete. |
| 1:03.0 | What I mean is what if everything that everyone else is doing |
| 1:08.0 | just doesn't seem to work for you? |
| 1:10.0 | We've known for a long time that a diet rich in carbohydrates fuel the best runners in the world. |
| 1:16.0 | But when you start eating like an East African, well, let's just say you're not going to be breaking any world records anytime soon. |
| 1:24.8 | Our bodies are amazing and they're surprisingly individual. |
| 1:29.2 | One person could eat loaves of Wonder Bread with negligible effects to blood sugar, while another person's levels |
| 1:36.1 | would skyrocket. Science doesn't quite understand why there are such dramatic differences, |
| 1:42.0 | but we know they're there. So what does this mean for the |
| 1:45.2 | average athlete? How does our fueling and overall nutrition need to change to work with our |
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