Fanté Guides
Designed by qualified athletes and nutritionists to provide you with reliable and practical information. Here you'll find evidence-based tips, routines, and recommendations designed to help you improve your performance, take care of your nutrition, and achieve your goals safely and effectively.
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For some time, it was thought that exogenous carbohydrate oxidation rates (intake via gels and all other external foods) would not exceed 60 g/h. However, recent research has shown that exogenous c...
Gastric emptying is a rate-limiting step in the delivery and absorption of nutrients and fluids in the small intestine. Therefore, the rate at which nutrients empty from the stomach directly affect...
Oral health is more important than you think for your quality of life as an athlete. We're not just talking about oral pathologies and complications, but how it directly affects your overall well-b...
Various strategies such as cold water immersion, active recovery, compression garments, massage, and electrical stimulation are currently being used to improve athlete recovery. However, muscle gly...
To understand the importance of timing CHO intake, it is necessary to understand the two phases of CHO resynthesis. Thus, various studies have indicated that glycogen resynthesis after exercise occ...
Is there a glycogen threshold?
Deliberate training with reduced carbohydrate (CHO) availability to enhance resistance training-induced skeletal muscle metabolic adaptations (i.e., the 'train low, race high' paradigm) is a hot to...
Ketogenic diet and metabolic flexibility
The quintessential pseudoscience diet, supported primarily by a 1980s study involving Alaskan Malamute dogs and horses.
Maximum tolerable concentration in a carbohydrate drink
Using powdered carbohydrates is an optimal strategy for improving performance per unit of time. It allows us to pack a high amount of carbohydrates into a small space. But this doesn't serve as an ...
How do we improve our energy levels? We'll give you the keys to improving your metabolic efficiency and becoming a better athlete.