
Preparing for a Sports Event 2: Carbo-loading
Got a big sports event coming up? Chances are, your teammates and coach has asked you to eat every carbohydrate-heavy food in sight. Is that really necessary? Pasta, pasta, pasta. That is all you eat a week before your major sports event. Because, "carbo-loading". For those new to the term, carbo-loading or carbohydrate loading, is a strategy mainly used by endurance athletes, such as runners, to maximise the storage of glycogen (or energy) in the muscles and liver. The techn