No-carb biking?

hahah that article was great...
atkins may work but not for serious day to day riding

Is that real? :eek: If so, what a moron.

well I dont know much about who rides what, but if hes the best we have
I'm embarresed for the U.S.

TechJD said:

well I dont know much about who rides what, but if hes the best we have
I'm embarresed for the U.S.

lance armstrong?

Funny site. hehehe. I've posted the link to more than a few dieting friends.

Big Schwinner said:

Tour de France proves not Atkins-friendly

I thought this was funny.

The whole Jim Margalus article is filled with all kinds of totally wrong information about the Atkins diet and the mass marketing bull [censored] that has been produced ever since Dr. Atkins died. (You should notice that none of the mass marketing [censored] was allowed when he was alive.)

As a former patient of Dr. Atkins (you know, sitting in the waiting room and actually working with the man) the first thing I can tell you from the Margalus article is that Wilcox is an idiot and doesn't know what he's doing.

The basic concept behind the Atkins program is that each individual processes carbohydrates at distinctively individual levels and that your carbohydrate needs change with the activities that you are doing. What you try to ascertain is what Dr. Atkins call your "critical carbohydrate level"... that is how many grams of carbs your body need before it begins to store them as fat. Below that level you lose weight. At that level you maintain weight. Above that level you gain weight. To determine your CCL you check for the presence of ketones in your urine.

When I was originally on the "diet" I was a teenager who was 80 pounds over weight. A real couch potato, member of the chess club kind of guy. I went to Atkins, started to excercise and eventually ended up playing Lacrosse in high school and rowing varsity crew in college. As my excercise increased so did my carbohydrate allowance. More carbs during the sports season...less carbs during the summers when I was not as active... again... constantly checking for the presence of ketones in my urine.

Wilcox bringing low-carb foods to something as astronomically taxing as the TDF only showed himself to be an abosolute Idiot with a capital "I". In training, he should have know just how many carbs he need for 5-6 hours of high pressure cycyling. But with Dr. Atkins dead and the "Atkins Institute" more interested in sell in than in the medical aspects of the program, what can you expect but distorted and misinformation. I understand that the Atkins Institute recently closed down the Atkins medical offices in NYC. Just goes to show you how really dedicated they are.

cydewaze said:

Funny site. hehehe. I've posted the link to more than a few dieting friends.

It seems to me that anyone who rides in any race shouldn't be dieting. How many calories do you think a rider burns in one stage? Yes, I've done Atkins. And I've lost almost 100 pounds on it. No, I'm not going to stay on it for life. What's more unhealthy, being 100 pounds overweight or doing something about it? All my blood test are in the good to great numbers. My blood pressure has gone down to 115/70. I'm slowly eating more carbs and I'm riding 7 miles a day - about 40 over the weekends. I weigh less and I'm in better shape than I've been in for a long time.

Trekker2017 said:

The whole Jim Margalus article is filled with all kinds of totally wrong information about the Atkins diet and the mass marketing bull [censored] that has been produced ever since Dr. Atkins died. (You should notice that none of the mass marketing [censored] was allowed when he was alive.)

As a former patient of Dr. Atkins (you know, sitting in the waiting room and actually working with the man) the first thing I can tell you from the Margalus article is that Wilcox is an idiot and doesn't know what he's doing.

The basic concept behind the Atkins program is that each individual processes carbohydrates at distinctively individual levels and that your carbohydrate needs change with the activities that you are doing. What you try to ascertain is what Dr. Atkins call your "critical carbohydrate level"... that is how many grams of carbs your body need before it begins to store them as fat. Below that level you lose weight. At that level you maintain weight. Above that level you gain weight. To determine your CCL you check for the presence of ketones in your urine.

When I was originally on the "diet" I was a teenager who was 80 pounds over weight. A real couch potato, member of the chess club kind of guy. I went to Atkins, started to excercise and eventually ended up playing Lacrosse in high school and rowing varsity crew in college. As my excercise increased so did my carbohydrate allowance. More carbs during the sports season...less carbs during the summers when I was not as active... again... constantly checking for the presence of ketones in my urine.

Wilcox bringing low-carb foods to something as astronomically taxing as the TDF only showed himself to be an abosolute Idiot with a capital "I". In training, he should have know just how many carbs he need for 5-6 hours of high pressure cycyling. But with Dr. Atkins dead and the "Atkins Institute" more interested in sell in than in the medical aspects of the program, what can you expect but distorted and misinformation. I understand that the Atkins Institute recently closed down the Atkins medical offices in NYC. Just goes to show you how really dedicated they are.

There's a reason why it's bullsh*t. Because it's a joke.

The whole article is a joke. There is no Murray Wilcox in the Tour de France field. There's no Team Atkins in the Tour de France field. There isn't a cyclist even three hours behind, much less 23.

Plainly put, it couldn't be more a joke if it tried. You needn't be fired up.

Big Schwinner said:

There's a reason why it's bullsh*t. Because it's a joke.

The whole article is a joke. There is no Murray Wilcox in the Tour de France field. There's no Team Atkins in the Tour de France field. There isn't a cyclist even three hours behind, much less 23.

Plainly put, it couldn't be more a joke if it tried. You needn't be fired up.

Never read the blurb under the photo. Regardless, I still don't find it funny.