Dave Macleod's new, long video – does anyone call these vlogs anymore? - about keto diets for climbing came out a few days ago. I don't think it is much of a stretch to say that, among performance oriented rock climbers (climbing grade irrelevant), this was a highly anticipated video. The video is four hours long and while training I watched it all (not in one session, four hours would be a mammoth and likely fairly useless gym session). Me, the person with the attention span of a gnat was fully engaged by a four hour video which is mostly Macleod talking with the odd climbing shot spliced in!
If you are interested in sports performance and your head won't explode if you have to confront ideas that challenge the status quo of sports nutrition, I recommend watching the entire four hours. People without a background in exercise physiology and nutritional science, might find the video a bit challenging. Around hour three I realised that Macleod was throwing around terms like mitochondrial density, which I understand, but which might be unfamiliar to many athletes. If “polarized training” makes you say “what?” you might need to take notes and look things up afterwards. There is no shame in that; one of the greatest free gifts of life is the ability to learn something new.
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