What I meant was that this particular observation has since been deemed
irrelevant. It's been shown that glycogen loading is effective in all
athletes.
 >You commented yourself in earlier 
 discussions that you thought a horse's "body condition score" was 
 affected by water retention and increased glycogen stores.  In fact, 
 body condition scoring has nothing to do with muscle fitness, but if a 
 muscle is looking "fuller" due to glycogen stores, I would think it 
 would be pretty easy to assume a higher level of fitness than may 
 actually be present. >>
I don't think I mentioned "body condition score" because it is a measurement
I'm not familar with. It also doesn't sound like a very accurate way to
measure fitness.
ti