Originally Posted by
rubiksoval
Not sure how. More seems to depend on whether or not you want to tool around at a pedestrian pace or actually train to get fast.
If you want to lose weight, you just get hungry. Consequently that's also something that doesn't mix very well with training to get fast because your body needs carbs. Time and a place to cut calories for performance sake. Not so much for keto.
While I don't particularly think strict keto has a place if your goal is to race and spend lots of time above your anearobic threshold right now, to say keto doesn't have a place in getting fast unequivocally is quite ignorant of the science. You'll never be that fast if you are fat, and usually losing weight for the average cyclist is going to be the easiest way to get faster. At best, you can maybe make a 10% jump in ftp in a season? Whereas a 10kg drop in weight will increase your w/kg by that same 10% at the same power