RE: FYI

["John Proudman GGPL B-262" <johnp@lpsi.barc.usda.gov>]

This is a great discussion, but you are losing me here.  What is "GL"?  
Are you saying that a 10% fat diet is primarily a carbohydrate-based 
training diet?  Does this level of fat (soybean oil, I believe) in Enduro 
load fat?  I realize that the amount of this diet fed, relative to the 
total diet (including roughage), is what important (I think I've read in 
Lew Hollander's book that 10% of the TOTAL diet is needed for fat 
loading?).  I have no clue as to how much grass my horse is eating, so I 
cannot estimate his total diet, but it is obvious that if the concentrate 
portion is 10% fat then the percent fat in the total diet must be much, 
much lower.  Rice bran is 20% fat, but my guy does his best to sift it 
out of what he eats, so that does not add substantial fat to his diet.  
At 800 lbs, carrying a heavyweight rider, I must put a lot of energy in 
to keep him from being thin.  How do I achieve the proper amount of fat 
to supply intramuscular triglycerides?

John in MD

<< OK, so what would meet the 'carb-based diet' requirement ? The 
carbo-loading before and carbs during the ride would be your GL? The 
Enduroevent I feed at 10% fat sounds like it would load fat. Or are we 
talking alot higher(like adding rice bran)? 
 
                                          Shelly in DE >>

>Well, it's primarily a carb-based training diet, and a carb-supplemented 
>raceday environment, but the key here is ensuring a supply of intramuscular 
>triglycerides with that short period of fat loading--combined with a high 
>exercise energy demand prior to the loading .

>ti