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Originally Posted by
Robert Santana
You simply cannot train on the shit. People don't get it. In theory, you can convert amino acids into glucose albeit inefficiently. In practice, that doesn't seem to matter because:
A) People will not consistently eat 400-600 grams of protein.
B) It doesn't seem to work the way the biochemistry books tell us in practice. In all fairness to the biochemistry books they don't claim that the conversion will be efficient enough to train at high intensities. They just tell us it can be done.