| Athletes should apply a periodized approach to nutrition to ensure dietary carbohydrate intake matches the carbohydrate demand of training or competition. |
| Contemporary sports nutrition guidelines allow for a certain degree of tailoring of carbohydrate intake to support a periodized approach. |
| Future research integrating individual athlete physiological data with sports nutrition knowledge will enable increasingly personalized ways to meet dietary carbohydrate intake goals for athletes. |
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