Chris Carmichael has coached six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong for fourteen years and has written a new book about nutrition and fitness.
According to “Chris Carmichael’s Food for Fitness,” active people need carbohydrates for fuel. Try a trendy low-carb diet and you may find your endurance sapped.
“It’s actually pretty simple,” Carmichael said. “These low-carb fad diets are not for active people.”
But what does he mean by “active”? If you blasted through a 90-minute track workout this morning, plan to make swim team practice tomorrow and have already scheduled a 50-mile bike ride for this weekend, chances are you’re active in Carmichael’s eyes. Exercise intensely for an hour or more most days of the week, and you’ll simply bonk if you try to stick to the Atkins diet.
