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REACH YOUR PEAK

01 Science of stamina

ancy a scientist extracting a segment of your muscle fibre within a day of hardcore intervals? Doubtful. Fancy that same scientist extracting four segments of muscle fibres during a day of hardcore intervals? Sod off. That’s what a brave set of Danish cyclists let a team of Danish researchers do to their thighs, all in the name of finding out more about the role of muscle glycogen in high-intensity exercise. From our point of view, their suffering was worth it as it’s given us a deeper insight into why

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