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24.10.2022

What happens when you combine interval training with a low-carb diet?

If you combine short but explosive cardio interval training with a low-carb diet, your body fat percentage will drop but your muscle mass will be retained. At the same time, your maximum oxygen uptake will improve. This implies your stamina will increase.


What happens when you combine interval training with a low-carb diet?


Meta-study
Researchers from Beijing Sport University traced 10 trials in the scientific literature in which for subjects not only did cardio interval training but also followed a low-carbohydrate diet. The trials lasted 2-14 weeks.

One of the 10 studies involved healthy athletes. The subjects in the other studies were healthy but not physically active on one occasion, overweight on another occasion and diabetic or (pre-)diabetic on other occasions.

The researchers aggregated the results of the trials and re-analyzed them.

Results
The combination of carbohydrate reduction and interval training reduced body weight and fat percentage, but left the lean body mass intact.


If you combine short but explosive cardio interval training with a low-carb diet, your body fat percentage will drop but your muscle mass will be retained. At the same time, your maximum oxygen uptake will improve. This implies your stamina will increase.


If you combine short but explosive cardio interval training with a low-carb diet, your body fat percentage will drop but your muscle mass will be retained. At the same time, your maximum oxygen uptake will improve. This implies your stamina will increase.


If you combine short but explosive cardio interval training with a low-carb diet, your body fat percentage will drop but your muscle mass will be retained. At the same time, your maximum oxygen uptake will improve. This implies your stamina will increase.


However, the maximum oxygen uptake, according to sports scientists still the most important predictor of endurance, increased.


If you combine short but explosive cardio interval training with a low-carb diet, your body fat percentage will drop but your muscle mass will be retained. At the same time, your maximum oxygen uptake will improve. This implies your stamina will increase.


Source:
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Oct 13;18(20):10740.

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