Keto or carbo? Low‐ versus high‐carbohydrate diets for fuelling elite endurance sport performance.

Low- versus high-carbohydrate diets for fuelling elite endurance sport performance They also demonstrated that, despite an acute 24 h HCHO diet and pre-race CHO-rich meal, rates of fat and CHO oxidation at speeds corresponding to the athletes' 25 km and 50 km race pace were not sufficiently restored to baseline values. Accordingly, during the 10 km adaptation race, the athletes who were adapted to the LCHF diet demonstrated worsened real-life race performance compared to their baseline trials with the HCHO diet. [Extracted from the article]