Sport Nutrition

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Sport nutrition

Leonardo Daniel Pacheco Maldonado

23/10/2015

1QE

More and more athletes and people working their physical and who are interested in food. But it is also true that misinformation is great that the concepts are not clear and that everyone dares to give advice on this or that "diet" this or that product or miracle supplement. We must be clear that the athlete depends mainly, its physical. You can now have the most sophisticated technique, lighter or modern materials, that all this will be worth little if the body is not fully fit. Few things, if any, have more influence on athletic performance that power.

The importance of training is great, but it will not be effective if it is not accompanied by adequate food Each and every sport, in particular, will outline from a balanced diet, supplements or possible more suitable conditions for each athlete. Sportsman consider the person who practices a sport with daily training at least one hour. From this pattern, people who perform physical exercise usually adapt their supply to the classic concept of balanced diet, with particular attention to hydration.

Proper diet, in terms of quantity and quality, before, during and after a workout or a competition of this kind, optimize glycogen stores and thus physical performance. Feeding an athlete significantly influences physical performance and sports of high intensity and long duration as a cycling race, a marathon, etc., the performance is limited, usually, by the availability of carbohydrates. An athlete needs more protein and vitamins than sedentary; however, as the athlete usually consume more calories, if you take a balanced diet, you are ingesting adequate amounts of these nutrients. In turn, increased fluid intake will be necessary to prevent dehydration and improve performance, especially when sweat loss is important. Because of the increased volume and intensity of work done during training, it has stimulated the interest of athletes and coaches food, being necessary to point out that the two main sources of energy during physical exercise are carbohydrates and fat; and that, in principle, the body's stores of these substrates are limited to carbohydrates and unlimited to fat. Carbohydrates and fats are a group of molecules of different

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