This one change made all of the difference
19 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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A Division I athlete stuck on a plateau despite training four times daily. The fix: eating more carbs. His top sources are rice, fruits, and potatoes.

A Division I athlete stuck on a plateau despite training four times daily. The fix: eating more carbs. His top sources are rice, fruits, and potatoes.
My athlete had just committed to a top Division I program, but he was super frustrated because he had hit a plateau. No matter what he did, his lifts in the gym were not going up. He wasn't getting faster and he couldn't put on weight. We broke through that plateau by changing one simple thing. He started eating more carbs. He was training 4 times a day, therefore he was burning through those carbs and he wasn't able to sustain the training that he was doing. Therefore, he was hitting the plateau and not seeing gains. So to break through that plateau, sometimes all you need is extra carbs. My top 3 carb recommendations for athletes are rice, fruits, and potatoes.