Recently I led the most comprehensive review to date on how many carbs strength trainees need to optimize performance. Now a new review by King et al. has performed a meta-analysis of studies on the effect of pre-workout carbs on acute strength training performance. The new review effectively zooms in on our review’s section on acute performance and bolsters its findings with a statistical meta-analysis. Some of their conclusions disagree with our analysis, so let’s take a deep dive into the data to find the truth. Below are the new review’s main conclusions.   The new review’s conclusions “Carbohydrate ingestion … Continue reading Do you need pre-workout carbs for maximum strength performance?