New article - some thoughts on the extent to which we sport coaches can trust our judgement to know what works: open.substack.com/pub/jacoblea...

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Lovely weekend of racing at London Aquatics Centre 😎

What a building man

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KETONE lowered glycemia relative to placebo (p<0.0001)

KETONE increased retention of ingested sucrose relative to placebo (p = 0.001)

Then their breath and their blood was analysed. Here is (briefly) what they found:

KETONE increased β-hydroxybutyrate concentrations relative to placebo (p<0.0001)

Here's the table from the paper (as is), I guess I'll have to leave the critical analysis for reviewer 2 😉😎

Me at my next park run when I remember Lucy would be absolutely wiping the floor with me

Appreciate this is ambitious with the number of followers I have, but I have a question!

Working my way through this brilliant book, and, whilst I appreciate broad characterisations in either case, I was wondering if Jan Olbrechts thesis could be described as a form of polarised training?