A new season of "The Low Carb Athlete" Podcast is returning January 2022! After a taking the past few months of recording podcasts, I am re-inspired to record a new season for you – the ambitious, driven, high charging athlete! I had to step away from the podcast as ask myself- why do I keep doing this when hosting a podcast costs money and my numbers are down plus I don’t have money to spend on growing the podcast professionally as so many other top podcasters are doing out there these days. During the past two years or so, fasting and keto has continued to grow in our world – which is a positive BUT confusing for the “Type AAA” driven, ambitious, competitive athlete. Most of athletes live with the mantra – “MORE IS BETTER” and we push past fatigue, pain or discomfort. We are motivated and consistent with our workouts and nutrition plan so if someone hears about eating low carb and carbs are not needed – then to fast 16-18 or more hours then exercise as normal then we may be creating or contributing to METABOLIC CHAOS and overfilling our beaker of stress. My mantra over the years, based on my own “LIFE IS NOT A RACE” experience with “adrenal exhaustion” and life is a journey transformation, has become to be “LESS IS MORE”, more is not always better and we are all unique individuals. We can adjust and course correct based on our own N = 1 experiments with fueling, training and performing – but understanding that we all experience different sources of internal and external sources of CHRONIC Stress that do accumulate (especially when we are living life as a race with MORE IS BETTER philosophy). The new season of THE LOW CARB ATHLETE Podcast will be focused on how to become a fat burning athlete but adding in research and experiments of how low carb should you go or when to add carbs – or not to add carbs.

Also, I want to dive into fasting and exercise – when do we eat or not eat before a workout as well as do we eat afterwards or wait to eat?

What if you are a female athlete who is pre-menopausal or menopausal?

Are the guidelines different for a female athlete? Did the research study, that is being shared on blogs and podcasts, include any females in the study? Read the rest on https://debbiepotts.net

Find Ben's podcast on fasted exercise here

When to fast or not to fast before exercise?