Originally Posted by
Iride01
Certainly sugar isn't something that is necessary in amounts greater than what we get in a normal diet. However I don't see what your point is with all of your endless regurgitation of studies and such. I don't think we are here to talk about who of us has the best overall diet. Or is one diet better than the other.
Most of us probably agree that added sugar is unnecessary in ones overall diet and that healthy food choices should be made in ones over all diet. However when used as fuel for high effort ride, carbohydrates will replace some of the spent energy reserves for high effort cycling at and above ones lactate threshold. Many of us also believe that the sugars we only use while we ride and shortly after our ride don't really have much impact on our overall healthy diet.
Certainly if one isn't going to ride in the upper zones during a ride, they don't need any carbohydrates during a ride at all. Just water.
So preaching to the choir about healthy diets is really lost on most of us. And I consider it very offensive that you seem to think we have bad diets just because we use carbohydrates when on the bike. Perhaps your constant goading to eat healthy might be better on forum where people come to learn about losing weight or a forum where people come to find out how to address long term health issues.
I am sorry if you feel offended, I do not think that I insulted anybody though, and a diet, good or bad, is not an extension of somebody's character.
Basically the topic is whether sugar is necessary for exercising, and I argue that it is not, and, OK, I am a nobody with respect to athletic achievements, but look at Djokovic for example (controversy aside) and how he treats refined sugars.
To be honest, it does not help the discussion that the guy in the original video gives the wrong definition of insulin resistance, labels maltodextrin as a sugar, and treats all carbs as sugars "because eventually they get broken down to sugar".. To add to that, the woman host specifically asks him "So as a
normal person out on a ride, what should you be looking to take on, what quantities and when?" and the guy says 90 gr per hour.. yeah, nobody
needs that unless they are in the tour or something.
Allow me to goad again with something provocative: You can achieve any athletic feat you want by sticking to real, nutritious food.