Anaerobic threshold and low carb

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Donna - 14 Mar 2004 02:03 GMT

Hi there, I haven't posted in a while, but I have been lurking
everyday (I can't post from my work computer). Plus I have been doing
this for a while and have pretty much figured out how things work for
me. But I "ran" into a problem recently. For my job I have to do a
fitness test which consists of among other things, sprinting. I have
been running more lately, and am up to 4km now at about 7km/hr. But
when I failed the sprinting test I asked the instructor about it and
he said that my daily running is aerobic while the sprinting is
anaerobic. So I jumped on my computer and looked it up and found a
few things about it. But I would like to know from some experienced
exercise gurus if eating low carb (around 50gm/day) will lower my
anaerobic threshold. I have been doing this for 15 months now, so I
am pretty sure my body has adjusted to this WOE.

Donna I.
250/186/165
01/01/03 third times a charm

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RRzVRR - 15 Mar 2004 14:54 GMT

> But I "ran" into a problem recently. For my job I have to do a
> fitness test which consists of among other things, sprinting. I have
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> 250/186/165
> 01/01/03 third times a charm

Yes eating a strict LC could effect your anaerobic threshold to some
degree while your eating a strict LC plan. Aerobic work doesn't need
very much muscle glycogen to fuel activity, anaerobic work does.
Eating a strict LC plan would limit the amount of muscle glycogen you
store. If you don't have enough stored glycogen (plus the water
that's stored with it) within the muscles being worked your threshold
would be lower. In short, lower muscle glycogen (not liver) levels
has an effect on your anaerobic threshold. Also research on lone
lactate threshold.

You can restock your muscle glycogen to some extent without refilling
your liver stores via a TKD plan. A good place to start reading about
CKD/TKD is at the following FAQ: http://low-carb.org/faq/

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