Improving Athletic Performance
Eating much high-carbohydrate food. A controversial practice of first
starving the body of carbohydrates, and then following a
high-carbohydrate diet just before an athletic event, in an attempt to
increase performance.
Endurance athletes, e.g. marathon runners, rely on their stores of
glycogen as a source of energy during competition. Carbohydrate
loading is a legal method of boosting the amount of glycogen in the
body prior to a competition.
Six days prior to a competition the process begins.
For the first three days the athlete consumes minimal carbohydrate and
exercises so as to deplete the body’s glycogen stores. In the last
three days the athlete consumes primarily carbohydrate and reduces the
training load.
At the end of day three the body will think that there is a problem
with its glycogen stores and that it should store more glycogen than
normal. In the last three days, when the athlete consumes
carbohydrate, the body will replenish the glycogen stores and
hopefully top them up with a little bit extra.
The recommended amount of carbohydrate is between 6-10g of
carbohydrate per kg of body mass. Technically by following these
guidelines body mass will increase because of the high sugar content
of the food which will also be being consumed.
Carbohydrate does not help the muscles to work harder or faster, it
only helps the muscles to work for longer and the process of
carbohydrate loading is therefore only beneficial for an endurance
athlete who is following the carbohydrate loading process.
Some potential side effects are:
* Muscle stiffness
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...hin red blood cells that makes them more
efficient at unloading oxygen to the tissues.
5. An increase in the number of mitochondria and oxidative enzymes
Problems at working at high altitudes include the lack of oxygen.
Until you have fully adapted, it will reduce your ability to work
hard.
Moving from low altitude to high altitude and the low concentration of
oxygen in a person’s blood immediately stimulates breathing depth and
rate to increase up to 65%. If they remain at high altitude for
several days their ventilation rate may increase up to 500%.
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For the past several years runners all over the world have been trying to figure out and arguing over the simple question: “Is high mileage training better than low mileage, during training season?” Kenyan’s in Africa have been running unbelievable amounts of mileage for years, and tend to always be in the top field in any race over five thousand meters. While Africans have been leading the fields for years, where do the best US runners end up? Not in the lead pack! Perhaps they are training too hard to be like their Kenyan counterparts. I think a lot of runners believe that if they train like the runners from Kenya that they will have the same results. When in truth they end up running themselves into the ground. Perhaps that is why there are others that think that if they train light and more to their athletic ability level that they will have better results.
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