Do You Benefit from Carbs during Workouts?

How important are carbohydrates for your strength training results? And if you’re planning for a long, grueling workout—should you even bring carbs with you to the gym, to eat or drink during the workout?

That’s the main subject for today, aided by a new, randomized, triple-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial on intra-training carbohydrate ingestion in CrossFit-trained adults.

In the second half of the episode, we move on to more personal matters:

How did Daniel’s bench press competition go? And is Philip still doing his cardio quarters at the gym?

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