NUTRITION IN SPORT

before and during puberty do, if fact, have marked stunting of growth (Theintz et al. 1993). Theintzet al. (1993) also pointed o ...

snacks are better than larger less frequent meals, even when the total energy and nutrient content of the meals is similar. Flui ...

Therefore, gymnasts should have carbohydr- ate snacks available to consume immediately following training or competition. Ideall ...

over 10 years. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 25 , 1322–1329. Dyment, P.G. (ed.) (1991) Sports Medicine: Health Car ...

Physiology: Energy, Nutrition, and Human Performance, 2nd edn. Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia, PA. Maddux, G.T. (1970) Men’s Gy ...

Webster, S., Rutt, R. & Weltman, A. (1990) Physiological effects of weight loss regimen practiced by college wrestlers. Medi ...

Introduction Competitive swimming is a sport practised worldwide and includes swimming events of varied distances (50–1500 m, 22 ...

an average of 0.15 MJ · kg–1(36 kcal · kg–1). Dis- tribution of energy for these athletes was 49% of energy from carbohydrate an ...

explanation is that although running tends to have a somewhat anorexic effect, especially in the few hours after exercise, swimm ...

training places a great demand not only on dietary energy, but also on the carbohydrate needs of these athletes. Maglischo (1993 ...

Lambet al. (1990) tested whether a diet in which 80% of calories came from carbohydrate was superior to a 43% carbohydrate diet ...

drate feeding trial, blood glucose concentration was slightly elevated over the placebo trial at all time points, but no signifi ...

fatigue during the latter part of training sessions and prescribe a carbohydrate supplement only to those who consistently seem ...

cantly correlate with swimmers’ performance in a 91.4-m freestyle (Stager et al. 1984). In addition, numerous studies have shown ...

Micronutrient requirements in competitive swimming The only vitamin or mineral that has received much attention in the literatur ...

nutritional problems outlined in this chapter. Alternating between high and lower volume training days, allowing adequate time b ...

Costill, D.L., Flynn, M.G., Kirwan, J.P.et al.(1988a) Effects of repeated days of intensified training on muscle glycogen and sw ...

in female swimmers. Journal of Swimming Research 1 , 21–26. Thorland, W.G., Johnson, G.O., Housh, T.J. & Refsell, M.J. (1983 ...

Introduction The success of athletes in many competitive sports is determined by the extent to which they have developed their s ...

is zero: the maximum velocity, in an isolated muscle or an individual fibre, occurs during unloaded shortening. This situation c ...