Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "" video.

Although there's some notable endurance runners, who had success on low carb intake (basically running on ketones), in general there's a very strong correlation between carb intake and performance in endurance tasks. As far as lifting is concerned, afaik the newest research shows that the most important thing is that your stomach thinks it's got sth in it. So eating anything voluminous at all is important prior to lifting, but it doesn't have to be high in carbs. That was really good news for me, because I used to force chocolates and sweets into myself prior and during lifting and now I just eat whatever I feel like.
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@Dirk_van_Tonder It's probably 99% genetics, lol.
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@susiemiller2621 Sugar is not a drug, it's a basic nutrient and really THE most important nutrient for your body. You only get away with not consuming sugar directly, because your body can synthesize it from fats and proteins.
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Wait a minute.... Did you lose most of your musculature? Or did you get fat while also being a bodybuilder?
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@homomorphic We have several adaptations specifically for long distance running: more slow twitch muscle fibers, sweating, hairlessness, long legs, elastic calfs, breathing being indepentent from gait speed, etc.
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@garyjackson4054 I think I misunderstand. The champion of Judo in Ireland is 66 years old and 75kg? Or do you mean champion in a kind of "masters' division"?
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There's entirely different problems with not eating any plants. Mostly ethical, but also metabolical. Lifting seems to require mostly a kind of filled stomach and it doesn't really matter what you fill it with: I think there was a recent study in which ppl performed just as well with a placebo meal (0 calories) as with an actual meal.
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There's some endurance athletes that had success with low carb intake, but in general there's a very strong correlation between carb intake and performance. Same goes for intellectual tasks. Maybe if you get it your diet just perfect you can get similar performance in ketosis as with carbs, but that's a huge amount of effort and you need to organize your entire life around it, when you could just eat some noodles and have some sweets, lol.
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Carbs help the most in endurance tasks. So they're probably even more important outside of "high intensity". If the task is "high intensity" and relatively short, the most important factor seems to be your stomach feeling full. They did an experiment in which people lifted just as well after a 0 calorie placebo meal.
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