The Watts Doc #12: Can Fiber Type Predict Carb or Fat Use?

Published: Oct. 2, 2019, 9:59 p.m.

The episode starts off with a primer on parts of muscle needed for contraction and how these relate to different methods of fiber typing (there's more than one!). We finish our look at a classic paper on cycling physiology and its sections on fiber type and substrate use. Then a paper on cross country skiers throws a bag of monkey wrenches into decades of established fiber type paradigms.