NUTRITION IN SPORT

Introduction In the never-ending quest to improve perfor- mance, athletes and coaches are quick to embrace almost any notion tha ...

(National Research Council 1989). In other words, the composition of a sports nutrition sup- plement would be limited to water, ...

your body use oxygen more efficiently’, ‘help sculpt a leaner, firmer body’, ‘contains powerful cell volumizing and recovery nut ...

include ‘contains calcium’, ‘delivers 2200 low-fat calories per serving’, ‘contains di- and tripep- tides’, and ‘provides nine i ...

supplements, and vitamin and mineral supple- ments. For example, ferrous sulphate tablets consumed by an iron-deficient female a ...

researched of all sports nutrition products. For- mulated to rapidly replace fluid lost as sweat during physical activity, sport ...

antistress formula’). In most cases, however, the claims for vitamin products are limited to state- ments of nutrient content (e ...

growth-enhancing properties. Additional sub- stances are reviewed in Chapter 26. Again, there is an absence of scientific resear ...

Ergogenics: Enhancement of Performance in Exercise and Sport(ed. D. Lamb & M. Williams), pp. 123–182. Brown and Benchmark, I ...

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PA RT 4 SPORT-SPECIFIC NUTRITION ...

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Introduction Of all sports, sprinting is the simplest. All that is required to run the race is a start and finish line, and an a ...

was used during the first 5–6 s of the race. The decrease in running speed over the 100 m com- menced when the high-energy phosp ...

from 17 top level athletes within 10 min of com- pleting a 400-m race in a major competition. Postrace blood lactate concentrati ...

subjects was 534±85 W and was 50% of its peak value at the end of the sprint. Biopsy samples were taken from the vastus laterali ...

high velocities, it is difficult to maintain such a high limb speed, both in recovery of the driving leg, and in the brief track ...

ample availability of muscle glycogen. The paral- lel increase in hydrogen and lactate ions during sprinting may inhibit glycoly ...

protein · kg–1body mass · day–1(Lemon 1992). A diet containing 12–15% of its energy from protein should be adequate for strength ...

tion of 20–30 mmol · kg–1of wet weight, the rate of energy production is reduced and perfor- mance decreased (Costill 1988). Car ...