Tim Declercq

@AKoutnik @DominicDAgosti2 @sweatscience @Brady_H @JoseAntonioPhD @nicknorwitz @DoctorTro @NTFabiano @MitoPsychoBio @ChrisPalmerMD @nick_krontiris Interesting for sure, but good luck trying this strategy in a 7000 kj Tour of Flanders 😅

🚨Our Landmark Sport Nutrition Analysis in Endocrine Reviews — spanning 100+ years & ~600 studies🔬— challenges the foundations of the sports nutrition industry & guidelines, exposing potential harm to athletes' health. This is the most comprehensive pub on nutrition's impact on performance (5+ years in the making). What we found is critical to athletes, coaches, dieticians, and the scientists who write guidelines with FREE study link below: 1) 🍞"Carb-loading" is misguided? Current sport nutrition guidelines (i.e., @ACSMNews, @IntSocietySN, @Gatorade Sport Science Institute) recommend 5–12 g/kg CHO/day and 60–90 g CHO/hour. What does that mean? 📈This can push some athletes to over 1000 carbohydrates/day. Multiple meta-analyses in the report revealed that sport nutrition guidelines have over-emphasized muscle glycogen and carbohydrate oxidation levels...yet these metrics didn't consistently align with performance... so what metric predicts performance? See #2. 👇 2)🧠Primary performance driver? Sustaining total brain energy (glucose + ketones + lactate)—not muscle glycogen or carb oxidation. In >160 sports performance studies, 88% showed that carb intake only benefits performance when blood glucose plummeted in the placebo group, triggering early fatigue in non-carb athletes due to brain energy deficit. Carbs maintained blood glucose and brain energy, and this out-predicted every other metric. Yet, the brain's role has been sidelined in sports nutrition, ignoring evidence since the 1920s of its pivotal impact on performance. 3)🔥High carbohydrate intake paradoxically accelerates glycogen breakdown and suppresses fat oxidation during exercise. This contradicts many of the sports nutrition marketing claims promoting high levels of carbohydrate supplementation (60-120g/hour) to "spare" muscle glycogen AND evidence showing that higher fat oxidation correlates with better performance. 4)🫀Health risks of sports nutrition guidelines? Emergent evidence has demonstrated that high-carbohydrate intake can lead to prediabetes in a percentage of athletes. This analysis also reveals that current sport nutrition guidelines' carbohydrate intake levels create a metabolic environment during exercise analogous to diabetes: -⬆️circulating insulin -⬇️fat oxidation -⬆️glycogen breakdown -🔒forced reliance on glucose as fuel This is critical. We show that athletes ARE NOT immune to the metabolic problems driven by the food environment. 5)🥵Ketogenic athletes CAN "bonk" too...but not if they fuel correctly. Contrary to claims, athletes on ketogenic diets can and do bonk—like on high-carb diets—due to dropping blood glucose. The lack of strategic carbohydrate placement was a mistake many keto-athletes made when trying to reach their peak performance. Small targeted brain-fuel supplements (10g/hour) during exercise boost peak performance without high-carb loads. After 4-week adaptation, ketogenic performance equals high-carb performance...but BOTH high and low-carb athletes benefit from ~10g/hour carbs to maintain glucose/brain energy for exercise >60 minutes in duration, improving performance 22%. It will be interesting to see how other brain fuels can also assist (ketones and lactate). 🔗FREE Study Link: doi.org/10.1210/endrev… 📣CONCLUSIONS: This landmark analysis challenges over half a century of scientific assumptions in sports nutrition—and explains how they became embedded in official guidelines—with implications reaching beyond elite athletes to public health and chronic disease prevention. Please share this widely with athletes, coaches, dietitians, and scientists to help optimize not just peak performance, but lifelong health. 🤝

@velofacts Tof om te zien!

@Tim_Declercq Enkele carriere statistieken uit de velofacts database. Met een mooi 333W peloton gemiddelde op de voorlaatste dag (normalized)

Really hope everyone involved is ok 🙏 swift recovery guys ❤️‍🩹

We are a five star ⭐️ team! #ParisRoubaix #ParisRoubaixFemmes

Men’s #OHN25 on Saturday

Unfortunatly today safety was not on point. After stage 1 & 2 ,also today vehicles entered the racecourse. unacceptable. Safety for the riders is priority. Happy to see we are not standing alone anymore. If you do the talk you should also do the walk

Resultaten 4e leerjaar in Vlaanderen - Wiskunde: 24e plaats - Wetenschappen: 35e plaats En snel dalend... Wat een drama voor onze toekomstige welvaart tijd.be/r/t/1/id/10577…

@paradox303_ 🤩🤩

Multi tasking 😄 can I be @Tim_Declercq yet? #ProjectTractor25 🚜 #farmtheory

#WinkelKoerse. We kregen al een paard tegen een farmer’s son (Yves Lampaert), een tijdritbom (Alec Segaert) en een leeuw (Johan Museeuw) maar nu dinsdag 8 okt een primeur: een paard🐎 tegen een ‘tractor’ (Tim Declercq)🚜. Tot dinsdag! Aankondiging Wtv: focus-wtv.be/nieuws/tim-dec….

@PDelagrense Ik rijd dan ws Parijs - Tours. Anders heel graag!

Hi @Tim_Declercq! op 6 oktober organiseren we een Age of Empires 2 LAN party in Erpe-Mere. Interesse om ook te komen? discord.gg/FhegFtHY?event…

Hey @Tour_de_Pologne, here we come!

In het algemeen worden in de koers vaak zaken met seingevers aangeduid die je op ooghoogte kan zien. Dat is natuurlijk geen slechte zaak, maar veel vaker gebeuren er ongelukken op obstakels die je vanuit de 2e lijn niet kan zien. Helaas is wat roze spray hiervoor niet voldoende

🔃 RT si tu penses que 🇧🇪 @Jasperstuyven est le coureur le plus combatif de la semaine passée du #TDF2024.

All the love for Julien Bernard 🥰 @lidltrek #TDF2024

🚜 @Tim_Declercq, the pace-setter. He’s wearing a new kit but he’s still riding at the front - Tim Declercq has started pulling the bunch and the pace has picked up. 🚜 @Tim_Declercq, le régulateur. Il porte de nouvelles couleurs mais il remplit toujours les mêmes fonctions : Tim Declercq est à l’avant du peloton et l’allure a augmenté. #TDF2024 | @nttdata_inc

A bottle of our finest for @letour! 🍷 #TDF2024

@HansenAdam 👆🙌

As it unfolded: On the rest day, the CPA first contacted all stakeholders to arrange an agreement based on the weather forecast for stage 16. It was clear that the conditions on Umbrail Pass should invoke the UCI extreme weather protocol, and the riders proposed eliminating this pass to avoid 2 degrees with snow during the long descent. The riders' intention was to have a full race without having to stop and restart due to extreme weather. The riders stood united in their decision, which was communicated to show the seriousness of their stance. After many hours of negotiations on the morning of the race, the CPA did their best to convey the riders' seriousness in avoiding today's situation. In the end, it was clear that Umbrail Pass could not have been raced as local authorities closed the pass due to too much snow. If the riders had raced, as the stakeholders wanted, the race would have stopped at the Umbrail Pass. Please remember, the riders' intention was always to race from point A to B and put on a show, exactly like they did and how a race should be. So ultimately, due to the weather, the original race course could not have been completed. Especially since before the race had even started, it was 0 degrees with snow. If that does not invoke the extreme weather protocol, then what does? It is 2024; we need to have a clear protocol in place for all stakeholders to understand and accept to preserve the good image of cycling. A "let's see how it goes" approach, especially today, would have resulted in riders on the side of the road, scattered all over the climb, looking for shelter in the snow. This is not the solution for ensuring the riders' health.

@Lowe_Profile_ 😂😂

@StefSchuermans @paradox303_ Ah nice, will you keep me updated? Not that me and Yves stand any chance

@Tim_Declercq @paradox303_ Just saying... in autumn there will be a 2v2 BelCup with only Belgian teams ...

Both players paid on this one. Thanks for participating. We ended up at $300 dollar prizepool. Thanks to everyone who donated! If you're interested in creating a showmatch with certain settings, players then please let me know. I am not hosting any tournaments at the moment, but happy to help set these up.