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• Randomised trial Published May 1981. The journal issue carries no day of the month.

  Severe depletion loaded no more glycogen than a moderate diet, and neither run was faster

  Trained runners went through three exercise and diet regimens before a 20.9 kilometre run. The classical severe depletion arm and a moderate carbohydrate arm reached the same muscle glycogen, and no arm produced a faster run.

  International Journal of Sports · Sherman et al. · 1 May 1981 · PMID 7333741

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