Sports nutrition is not just a day of competition or training days. What should you do and eat the day before the competition? We will look at buying a day earlier.
Factors affecting the sports nutrition needs
What factors affect what you eat? The biggest factor is the type of activities engaged in, but the physique athletes will also come into play.
Endurance sports require an athlete to be active for several hours of hard physical aktivnosti.Dulje duration will require extra effort to stay alert even when you're tired. The glycogen in the liver to provide energy your body will have to be at its peak. Glucose levels will dictate how well your body responds to the event, but will also affect your mental abilities as well. Sports activities include short spurts like sprinters in track and field or baseball, will not require so much commitment to building energy stores due to reduced demand for energy in general. It's still a very good idea to eat well, but sports nutrition requirements are very different.
Food Requirements
The most important areas of sports nutrition are as follows:
Proteins - are important for your muscles to recover and to function properly
Carbohydrates - it will enrich your glycogen levels for the next day
water - hydration is extremely important. You can not expect to only drink liquids the day of the competition and expect to be fully hydrated. Lots of water will help cleanse your system (part of the recovery process). Drinking plenty of water for even a week before the competition will have your body working at its best. Avoid caffeine (coffee, juices, energy drinks) which is known to drain body fluids.
Mental preparation
Experts agree that the day before the competition is more about preparation than it is about training for their sport and sports nutrition. Sports nutrition is just one small part of what you do. I had the pleasure to watch practice the day before the game for a professional football team. They do not have a regular practice. They will do a "walk", rather than to be a half times the normal practice. The intention is to relax and spend much more time in mental preparation in relation to physical pripreme.Mali of the game plan and special games that will take place is invaluable - it is a form of mental images that all successful athletes use. Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, etc. have been known to say that every two shots ... once in his mind, and then later for the real competition.
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