So I found this on marksdailyapple.com. it's a paleo website that I treat like the bible.
Paleolithic hunter-gatherers couldn’t hop on down to the grocery store for food. They had to expend energy to obtain energy – they had to “exercise” – and they often did it*without*fully-stocked muscle glycogen stores. This is familiar territory for any regular reader of this blog, but rather than focus on how this discrepancy might explain modern conditions*like*obesity*and*diabetes, I’m more interested in how it*affected our adaptation to physical training. When you train, or hunt, or forage in a glycogen depleted state, you*augment the normal adaptations to exercise. You*get better at burning fat for energy and conserving muscle glycogen during physical activity.
So what do you think?
Paleolithic hunter-gatherers couldn’t hop on down to the grocery store for food. They had to expend energy to obtain energy – they had to “exercise” – and they often did it*without*fully-stocked muscle glycogen stores. This is familiar territory for any regular reader of this blog, but rather than focus on how this discrepancy might explain modern conditions*like*obesity*and*diabetes, I’m more interested in how it*affected our adaptation to physical training. When you train, or hunt, or forage in a glycogen depleted state, you*augment the normal adaptations to exercise. You*get better at burning fat for energy and conserving muscle glycogen during physical activity.
So what do you think?