As being overweight is mainly an issue of total body fat stores, and has very little to do with carbohydrate stores, the answer is that anyone, of any weight, who wishes to prolong exercise at 70 to 80% or more of VO2max beyond 2 hours can benefit from carbohydrate loading. On the other hand, if the intent is just to lose weight, not improve performance, one should actually be carbohydrate depleted, forcing the body to draw on fat reserves for the Calories burned rather than the usual combination of carbohydrate and fat stores.
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 18:08:09 +0000
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