Fat & Exercise?
All macronutrients, carbohydrates, protein, and fat have a unique set of properties that influence health. Fat is an especially important molecule in regards to exercise. One gram of dietary fat contains 9 calories (Bellissimo & Akhavan, 2015). One pound of fat in the body is equal to about 3,900 calories (2015). Triglycerides are the type of fat most often found in food. Evidence suggests that dietary fat stimulate secretion of gut peptides reported to hold satiation effects, but have limited impact on long-term energy intake (2015).
Peak Sports Performance
Proper nutrition is the first step in optimizing your performance for competition or training.
Each athlete has different needs/goals depending on the time of the season, wanting to gain/lose weight, or maintaining weight.
Fat takes the body up to 6 hours to digest which means, it's not the best idea to eat a high-fat meal before or during intense exercise (Yoon et. al., 2016).
References
Nick Bellissimo, Tina Akhavan, Effect of Macronutrient Composition on Short-Term Food Intake and Weight Loss, Advances in Nutrition, Volume 6, Issue 3, May 2015, Pages 302S–308S
Yoon, H., Kleven, A., Paulsen, A., Kleppe, L., Wu, J., Ying, Z., Gomez-Pinilla, F., & Scarisbrick, I. A. (2016). Interplay between exercise and dietary fat modulates myelinogenesis in the central nervous system (Vol. 1862, Issue 4, pp. 545–555). https://doi.org/https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.unlv.edu/10.1016/j.bbadis.2016.01.019