CARBOHYDRATE COMBUSTION

FUEL TO PERFORM

Knowing how much carbohydrates your athlete burns at any given intensity, enables you to:

1. Create highly individual fueling (nutrition) plans for training and racing: never “bonk” again!

2. Create a pacing plan for endurance events like a marathon or long distance bike ride. Predict race results and never go too fast too early! 

3. Create training camps based on energy availability over time: prevent overtraining!

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BE PRECISE WITH YOUR DATA

Conventional assessment of carbohydrate combustion based solely on gas analyses has many limitations.

 

Not only is it lab-based, but it is easily affected by acute nutrition status. Scientific research has shown that neglecting lactate measurements when assessing carbohydrate combustion from gas exchange data alone is misleading.

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Optimize Performance & INSCYD adds lactate production to the assessment of carbohydrate combustion. The only way to produce lactate is by using carbohydrates, thus lactate production is directly linked to carbohydrate combustion.