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Metabolic adaptation
Competitive endurance athletes can perform intense interval training during 3-day exposure to a high-fat diet.
Athletes can incorporate high-fat diets without compromising high-intensity training performance.
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1) competitive endurance athletes can perform intense interval training during 3-d exposure to a high-fat diet.
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Effect of short-term fat adaptation on high-intensity training
Nigel K. Stepto et al. · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 2002
DOI 10.1097/00005768-200203000-00011
cross-sectional · n=7Cited 79×
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