This is crazy
13 Feb 2026 · 1 min
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Athletes need carbs to refill glycogen stores in their muscles after long training. Eat a banana and your energy tanks refill automatically. It's how your body works.
Athletes need carbs to refill glycogen stores in their muscles after long training. Eat a banana and your energy tanks refill automatically. It's how your body works.
Now protein for athletes is cool, but have you heard of carbs? So this is insane. All of your muscles, and I am not an artist here. Let's see. Frick! Let me try that again here. That looks like an intestine. Is that better? All of your muscles have these little energy tanks in them. Let's just say that they look like this, okay? Every single muscle in your body has these energy tanks and you eat a banana full of carbs and your body just automatically fills up these energy tanks, also called glycogen storages. Now, when you have long training sessions, these energy tanks are going to be drained from all of the work that you're doing. But guess what? If you eat carbs again, they're automatically just going to fill right back up. This is so freaking cool, athletes. Eat your carbs and you're going to play and perform a lot better.
