How to Lose Weight and Keep it Off with Dr. Kyle Pfaffenbach – Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 463

In the first half of the interview he says 1g/kg for fat but uses 1.2 to provide a little wiggle room. And 1.6 as standard for athletes on protein. Unless I’m mistaken.

If I understand correctly, he says total body mass makes sense for protein, but less sense for fat as it’s less/not metabolically active.

I like his explanation of looking at protein and fat as long term nutrients.

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Edit

I’ve listened through again from 49mins here’s my notes

Protein

  • Strength 2-2.5 per kg bw

  • Endurance hard to see gains over 2

  • 1.4-1.8 his range every day

CICO
If it were true you could predict weight gain and loss accurately, but you can’t

  • Use weight as indicator not metric

Fat

  • 1.2-1.4 in base,
  • as race comes close, lowest is 1-1.1
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