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Thirteen world class race walkers spent five to six days on a ketogenic or a high carbohydrate diet, then everyone ate a full carbohydrate day and raced. The retooling arrived in under a week. It did not leave in a day. Carbohydrate oxidation came back to 61 and 78 percent of where it started.
The Journal of Physiology · Burke et al. · the Australian Catholic University · 19 August 2020 · PMID 32697366
Twenty nine elite race walkers trained hard for three weeks on one of three controlled diets. The ketogenic arm reached fat oxidation rates higher than any previously published. It also needed more oxygen to walk at race pace, and it was the only arm that did not improve its ten kilometre time.
The Journal of Physiology · Burke et al. · the Australian Institute of Sport · 14 February 2017 · PMID 28012184
Five well trained cyclists ate four weeks of a ketogenic diet with calories held constant. Glucose oxidation fell threefold, muscle glycogen use fell fourfold, and endurance time at a moderate pace was unchanged. This is the study the whole low carbohydrate argument in endurance sport is built on.
Metabolism 32(8):769 to 776 · Phinney et al. · 1 August 1983 · PMID 6865776
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