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<< Truly, I am completely thunderstruck at the response to this.
Susan Evans >>
You know what boggled me? Rolfing is something other than throwing up! I
honestly had visions of these folks treating you by sticking two fingers down
your throat. Honestly! Thought it was some kind of a Hollywood freakshow. I
mean, they are "cleansing" freaks out there.
Now that Jim has explained a few of the basics to me, I can see some genuine
applications for racehorses. He's got me thinking in a whole new direction,
even though I'm still not a knee-twisting believer, even with all the
wondrous testimonials.
Anyway, Susan. Life's short. Let's get into some good stuff--talk about fat:
My racehorse guys tell me that they see a couple of weeks of benefit in
performance and then the horses lose their edge, then, gradually, a lot of
their speed. this, in my mind is due to an increasing muscular dependance on
fat and a storing of lipolytic enzymes in preference over glycolytic enzymes.
So I'm telling my folks to get off the high fat feeds (anything over 12%).
They tell me that burning fat is also oxygen--expensive compared to carbs and
produces higher body temps. Is this true?
Finally, assuming that in high speed race horses the glycogen loading process
is as effective as I'm saying it is. Why would it be more effective than in
human athletes? And why would creatine loading have no effect at all in
horses?
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