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Last night we attended the Tuesday Session of the  MILO A.P.E.X.(Athletic Performance Enhancement) Training. The session was led by Dr. Heath Motley,who is a professional chiropractor. He exhibited his expertise with stretching and displays the mechanical disorders of the muscles and joints simply by testing resistance of the arms and legs.

What is Chiropratic?

Chiropractic is a health care profession that focuses on disorders of the musculoskeletal system and the nervous system, and the effects of these disorders on general health.  Chiropractic care is used most often to treat neuromusculoskeletal complaints, including but not limited to back pain, neck pain, pain in the joints of the arms or legs, and headaches.

After manhandling two volunteers(this guy is huge ‘tho his voice is really soft! lol) he mentioned something about ” High Fat Diet” is ideal for runners especially for long distances instead of carbohydrate diet.  Is it true? Which is better?

Let’ start:

MIGRATORY BIRDS and whales rely on stored fat to fuel their long, strenuous journeys.

Just keep flying, just keep flying.. Just keep swimming, just keep swimming..

Fat is the muscles’ primary fuel for low to moderate-intensity exercise. Carbohydrate, which is the muscles’ primary fuel for moderately  high to high-intensity exercise, is stored only in small amounts in the body.  As a consequence, the depletion of the carbohydrate fuel causes fatigue during activities with long and higher intensity like marathon, ultramarathon or triathlon.

If we compare it with Fat fuel, it is virtually unlimited in our body. In this way, if we increase our reliance on fat fuel and decrease dependency on carbohydrate fuel during race intensity exercise, runners theoretically delay fatigue and perform better.