carbohydrate loading

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   a diet of foods high in starch that increases carbohydrate reserves in muscles

   “carbo loading is used by endurance athletes just before competing”

   Synonymscarbo loading

   Broaderdiet

Questions about carbohydrate loading

What does carbohydrate loading mean?

carbohydrate loading means "a diet of foods high in starch that increases carbohydrate reserves in muscles".

What is another word for carbohydrate loading?

Close synonyms include carbo loading. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carbohydrate loading a common word?

carbohydrate loading is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.