Wed, May-31-06, 09:09
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Senior Member
Posts: 3,225
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Plan: LCHF
Stats: 74/76/67
BF:29/31/25
Progress: -29%
Location: LA SERENA, CHILE
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Hi Jen -
I've been trying to do tennis training on very low carbs with mixed results (approx. 9 months now). Some days it seems I am 'ok' on the court - can manage on low carbs. However other times it has been a real drag and I am really exhausted.
Right now I'm taking the plunge with eating quite a few more carbs just before my training, as yesterday was really awful and I was very low on energy. Today I just ate around 500 calories for breakfast which included a large banana, a tangerine, eggs, cream, cocoa powder + sweetener (home-made shake). This came to around 40g carb which is HUGE for me (I usually just have eggs, cream and butter for breakfast which is very low carb).
I use up a lot of sprinting energy though which even after 9 months on low-carb I can not do very well without carbs.
However, before you jump into carbing up, I will say that for other exercise - for instance swimming, I do very well on no carbs. This is a more relaxed exercise and I can swim well over a mile easily on no carbs. So it might be that you just need to give your body time to adapt, or it might be the type of exercise you're doing is just too intense for very low carbs.
Whichever way - I think if you eat more carbs before exercising you will definitely burn them off anyway so you don't need to worry about weight gain. Also, just make sure you don't have a carbs only breakfast - eat them with protein and your blood sugar will be stable too.
Good luck!
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