Comment by poooogles
9 years ago
>It's all SUGAR. I hit the wall because of sugar. I finally cracked the magic code, NO SUGAR.
Can't say I agree with this part. If you're doing any kind of intensive cardio work sugars are essential if you want to keep doing it for any long period of time. The harder you're going the quicker you'll want to start eating carbs, be it in gels/fruit (Dates are fantastic for this).
You might actually just have got better, or maybe just might be well rested after a period of over training.
Even with heavy glycolytic training, exogenous carbohydrate intake needs are typically overstated.
Peter Attia (along with Volek and Phinney) has done some fantastic n=1 research in this area [1]
[1] http://eatingacademy.com/how-a-low-carb-diet-affected-my-ath...
You may wanna do some more research on this, it's not as black-and-white, plenty of endurance athletes starting to push less gels: http://lc-triathlete.com/science-behind-fat-adaptation/