Comments on: Eat Right to Fight, Round 2: Energy Nutrition

By: Gusnark

Gusnark — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:45:59 +0000

Tong Po, as I see a fighter needs power and endurance. So if you run, then run up to the hill or with weights on.

By: Tong Po

Tong Po — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:40:27 +0000

Thanks for the clarification on Hypoglycemia, Mark.

As for the aerobic vs. anaerobic, I believe that generally it would be better for us to perform training movements suited to our goals- ie, combative sports. Long slow distance does have its benefits, but I would not go too crazy with them, like running 7 miles every day or so. I’m interested to see what Mark thinks about this.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:50:09 +0000

That would be great. I’m very interested in aerobic vs. anaerobic training. I can’t seem to pick one over the other so I run intervals a lot. Nopstar had a nice post a while ago about the subject.

By: Mark Alter

Mark Alter — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:20:58 +0000

The issue of optimal cardio training is pretty complex. How about I write the next article on that (either this week or next)?

By: Gusnark

Gusnark — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:56:56 +0000

Mark I’ve also read somewhere, that long aerobic workouts are not as useful for burning fat as it was thought in the past. Some studies “revealed” that is better to do fast explosive anaerobic workout, which will also burn fat even hours later. Not to mention that you train your muscles also. So why performing long & light workout instead of short & medium workout?

By: Mark Alter

Mark Alter — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:32:54 +0000

Tong Po

Good question. I should have said “STOP and eat/drink something asap”. By the time your body is feeling those symptoms, it is already cannibalizing muscle tissue (protein) to make up for the blood sugar deficit. It *will* also be using fat, but the degree to which that is will depend on how well the aerobic-fat burning system has been activated by oxygenation.

Muaythai depends less on the aerobic system than distance sports. That is, if you get hypoglycemic during a long cardio workout, you’ll probably be burning a higher percentage of fat than during a more anaerobic Muaythai workout.

Does that make sense?

By: Tong Po

Tong Po — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:43:12 +0000

Very good article for the layman on food digestion w/out getting too scientific about the whole deal. Also, I was wondering I have experienced the symptoms of Hypoglycemia (mainly in the morning workouts), but being a fatass, is it still advisable to “EAT something ASAP?” I just figured that the body can just use the fat as energy during the workouts…(also, I understand that fat is generally used as energy in aerobic type workouts and not in anaerobic workouts- which may negate my statement above).

By: Gusnark

Gusnark — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:57:21 +0000

Mark, simple and very nice article.
Although I’m little familiar with how digestion works and what to eat, articles about what and how to eat were always very important to me. Actually should be very important to everyone.

Were you thinking about a topics separately for proteins, OH and separately for fat?

Regards

By: nae

nae — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:31:09 +0000

if soda was $30 a 2liter i’d be ripped right now.

By: matt

matt — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:46:09 +0000

If they got rid of 7/11 and mini-mart in Thailand i would have a pretty good diet, but those shops are everywhere, and all the sell are sweets, biscuits and cakes, mmmmm….hold on theres a 7/11 downstairs I’ll be back in a bit….