NUTRITION IN SPORT

employed indirect calorimetry or doubly labelled water as techniques to measure energy expenditure, while energy intake is usual ...

remarkably weight stable (Sariset al.1989; A.E. Jeukendrup & G. Leinders, unpublished find- ings). Anecdotal evidence sugges ...

Shermanet al.(1981) do not usually apply to cycling at the highest level. Professional cyclists and top-level amateurs have too ...

the muscle of substrate. This, in turn, may accel- erate glycogenolysis and increase whole-body CHO oxidation. Large pre-exercis ...

should be ingested during exercise while slightly higher rates of ingestion during the first hour may speed up the achievement o ...

addition to, an increased CHO availability to the contracting muscles. Medium-chain triacylglycerol ingestion during exercise Re ...

sional cyclists often receive their new bottles from the team director in the car behind the pack. One or two riders of the team ...

10 After drinking a lot, the stomach may feel empty and uncomfortable. In this case it may be wise to eat some light digestible ...

index enter the bloodstream relatively rapidly, resulting in a high rate of glycogen storage. Foods with a low glycaemic index e ...

References Anantaraman, R., Carmines, A.A., Gaesser, G.A. & Weltman, A. (1995) Effects of carbohydrate supple- mentation on ...

longed exercise. Journal of Applied Physiology 80 , 949–954. Jeukendrup, A.E., Wagenmakers, A.J.M., Brouns, F., Halliday, D. &am ...

Introduction In determining proper nutritional recommenda- tions in a sport discipline, it is important to assess the requiremen ...

each 2-min intermittent contraction period (Fig. 44.2). Thus, although the net utilization of PCr is quantitatively small during ...

the high aerobic energy utilization is that oxygen uptake in the recovery periods after intense exer- cise is high (Bangsbo 1994 ...

glycogen is the most important substrate in soccer and likely also in other team sports. It should be noted that in team sports ...

occurred at a later stage when the subjects started with superior muscle glycogen concentrations (Bangsboet al. 1992a). It is wo ...

the muscle glycogen levels are not high prior to a game, performance of repeated intense exercise during the game may be impaire ...

(4800 kcal). Therefore, for some of the players the total energy consumption was much lower than required. The quality of the di ...

increase in body weight. The maximal additional muscle-glycogen synthesis when consuming a high-carbohydrate diet as compared wi ...

minerals and vitamins Food and drink supplies the body with fluids, energy-producing substrates, and other impor- tant component ...