Recommended but Not High Carbohydrate Dose Improves Performance After Heavy‐ but Not Moderate‐Intensity Exercise in Recreationally Trained Participants
(placebo = 8.8 ± 1.1 min; R-CHO = 8.6 ± 0.9 min; H-CHO = 8.7 ± 1.0; p = 0.465). In recreationally trained individuals, R-CHO supplementation improved 4 km TT performance following exercise within the lower portion of the heavy-intensity domains, but not following exercise in the moderate- or upper region of the heavy-intensity domain. Additionally, above-recommended CHO dose was no longer beneficial for performance regardless of the prior exercise intensity bout.
Authors
- Letizia Rasica (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6943-9845)
- Juan Manuel Murias (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6460-6453)
- Rafael de Almeida Azevedo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0346-7007)
- Pablo R. Fleitas‐Paniagua (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3231-3445)
- Danilo Iannetta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6914-174X)
- Thiago S Alvares
- Alessandro M Zagatto
Institutions
- University of Lethbridge (CA)
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (BR)
- University of Calgary (CA)
- Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción (PY)
- Hamad bin Khalifa University (QA)
- Fundação Faculdade de Medicina (BR)
- University of Brescia (IT)
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) (BR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
- Published
- 2026-04-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.70288
- Primary Topic
- Muscle metabolism and nutrition
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00