What is bonking in running?

If you run long distances regularly, it's likely that at some point you've “bumped” or crashed into the wall.

bonking

describes the point at which the body's glycogen stores are depleted and the body begins to fatigue and burn fat, making every step towards the goal a fierce battle between mind and body. When your body stops in the middle of the race, it's called a “catch”. When scientists debate causes, it's called a food fight.

Here's everything you need to know. Hitting or hitting the wall is reaching a point of exhaustion where you experience a sudden or dramatic reduction in your pace. It is exhaustion of the mind, body and soul. Bonking is a common term for functional glycogen depletion, caused by exercise.

In other words, it is the condition in which muscles run out of fuel, with profound effects on performance and well-being. It happens to most long-distance runners at some point. You've been running or pedaling hard, pushing yourself to your limits, when all of a sudden things get worse sharply. Your body feels like it's moving through molasses.

You might even start to freak out. Quickly, and very unpleasantly, everything seems to close. There are a couple of different reasons why this occurs and we will differentiate between hitting and hitting the wall. It is well known that exercise has a long-term beneficial effect on immunity, but overtraining and pussies can cause the opposite.

On the other hand, Bonking tends to occur only on longer trips when you completely deplete your energy supplies. Even at the worst stroke, the muscles are not completely empty of glycogen, leaving between 10% and 30% of the original supply. Somewhat other than bumps, the experience of hitting the wall can be caused by physical symptoms, but it can also have a mental component. The time depends on how exhausted you have allowed your body to run out, but it is often made worse by the fact that most bonks occur on big rides.

Either way, carbohydrate loading avoids the classic muscle glycogen hit, in which the body apparently runs out of available sugar and begins to burn an even greater proportion of fat in fuel, a process that, because it must first convert fats to sugars, involves 20 metabolic steps in compared to 10 or more to burn glucose. As I entered my third marathon, I set out to test my training career by employing some very specific training sessions. Your body becomes more economical at the rhythms you run, so running pace training is a great way to avoid bumps. To see if the brain is to blame for the catch, the scientists had the athletes exercise until they thought they had hit the wall.

In the first continuous boom of the 1970s, the general rule was that your hit point was three times the average daily mileage. Many riders use the term bonking to describe a slight lack of energy or a moment at the end of the race when the legs contract and the engine seems to fail. This happens to a lot of long-distance athletes, and having a better understanding of what sex is and how it happens can help you defend yourself. Your immune system may also be compromised up to 3 days later, so take your recovery seriously; getting sick as a result of a stroke could interrupt your training for the next few weeks.

Feed your body properly BEFORE a race: Since pussies are related to energy reserves, it's important to ensure proper nutrition just before a race.

Dolores Blicker
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