carbo-loading

Not to say I don't enjoy some of the sugar-loading, but the carbo-loading is just annoying.

The idea behind carbo-loading [1] is to pack as much glycogen as possible into your muscles and liver before the race.

The usual Ramadan regimen for Muslims involves carbo-loading with dates and sugars in the morning, so it is unlikely to get to ketosis by iftar.

This technique is named 'carbo-loading' (because of all the spaghetti).

It's like carbo-loading but for syllable count.

I'd usually try to get some chicken in the pasta, or in my rice and beans as well (The actual effectiveness of carbo-loading is debatable, yes) 1.

Ask any serious runner and they'll tell you that they do their carbo-loading the night before a race and that all those carbs still make a huge difference 12+ hours after consumption.

Of course, I don't want the government reading my emails, but if June or the NSA or some hacker wants to watch me toast my third bagel of the day, I think the most they'll glean from that is that someone in my household is carbo-loading.

Exercise without the proper "carbo-loading" can eliminate the cognitive benefits that astrocytes provide in restoring glycogen to neurons.

In the absence of carbo-loading there is no lactic acid "wall" and hence no sainted feeling.

One of the marathons I ran had a "carbo-loading" event.

Read "The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance" and can absolutely say that after an initial horrible period that lasted for months, I was eventually able to run further and just as fast as I used to when I was carbo-loading.