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carbohydrate loading

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carbohydrate loading Practice of some endurance athletes (e.g. marathon runners) in training for a major event; it consists of exercising to exhaustion, so depleting muscle glycogen, then eating a large carbohydrate‐rich meal so as to replenish glycogen reserves with a higher than normal proportion of straight‐chain glycogen.

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