This might be silly, and a completely ridiculous question.
My situation: when I was younger I was an endurance athlete. I never really performed fast but I could outlast pretty much anyone. I was involved in triathlon from about 17 to about 23, and that's where this really showed the most.
I'm now 29 and had gained quite a bit of weight. At 17 I was ~140 lbs. At 26 I was 212. At 29 I'm (as of this morning) 172. It's falling off now because I'm getting back into swim/bike. No run yet (that would be a different thread). I'm finding the endurance component has come back super fast - way faster than I had expected it to. And with that is also now starting to come speed over distance that I never had before. I'm still far from fast but I'm noticing gains that I just shouldn't have. It's confusing.
But I have a lot of fat stores right now. Im 5 ft 6, and depending on the measurement tool somewhere between 23% and 34% body fat.
I'm thinking my body is unusually good at metabolizing fat during a workout. So what happens if I reach a percentage around 8%? Will my performance actually decrease as a result of having less body fat? I expect that as the BF% declines, the amount I metabolize in a training session will decrease and the amount of glycogen stores consumed will increase. If my glycogen stores do not increase at the same or greater rate than my body fat declines... what happens?
Does that make any sense? Or is this just nonsensical rambling?
My situation: when I was younger I was an endurance athlete. I never really performed fast but I could outlast pretty much anyone. I was involved in triathlon from about 17 to about 23, and that's where this really showed the most.
I'm now 29 and had gained quite a bit of weight. At 17 I was ~140 lbs. At 26 I was 212. At 29 I'm (as of this morning) 172. It's falling off now because I'm getting back into swim/bike. No run yet (that would be a different thread). I'm finding the endurance component has come back super fast - way faster than I had expected it to. And with that is also now starting to come speed over distance that I never had before. I'm still far from fast but I'm noticing gains that I just shouldn't have. It's confusing.
But I have a lot of fat stores right now. Im 5 ft 6, and depending on the measurement tool somewhere between 23% and 34% body fat.
I'm thinking my body is unusually good at metabolizing fat during a workout. So what happens if I reach a percentage around 8%? Will my performance actually decrease as a result of having less body fat? I expect that as the BF% declines, the amount I metabolize in a training session will decrease and the amount of glycogen stores consumed will increase. If my glycogen stores do not increase at the same or greater rate than my body fat declines... what happens?
Does that make any sense? Or is this just nonsensical rambling?