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An Endurance Athlete’s Guide to Energy Supplements By Christina Chapan www.fitnessprofessionalonline.com Running, biking, and swimming are high- intensity activities.
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Running, biking, and swimming are high-intensity activities. For the endurance athlete, there are many types of energy supplements. Athletes generally use these portable, convenient supplements every 30-50 minutes during races or events that are more than 60 minutes in length.
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An Endurance Athlete’s Guide to Energy Supplements
By Christina Chapan
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Running,
biking, and
swimming
are high-
intensity
activities.
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An Endurance Athlete’s Guide to Energy Supplements
By Christina Chapan
For the endurance
athlete, there are many
types of energy Supplements.
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An Endurance Athlete’s Guide to Energy Supplements
By Christina Chapan
Athletes generally use
these portable,
convenient supplements
every 30-50 minutes
during races or events
that are more than 60
minutes in length.
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An Endurance Athlete’s Guide to Energy Supplements
By Christina Chapan
Energy supplements
contain a combination
of proteins,
carbohydrates, sodium,
electrolytes, potassium,
caffeine, and fats to
burn energy.
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There are two kinds of
carbohydrates in
energy supplements—simple carbohydrates of
sucrose, glucose, and
fructose and complex
carbohydrates such as
glucose polymers and
maltodextrins.
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An Endurance Athlete’s Guide to Energy Supplements
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• Supplements
delay muscular
fatigue, raise
your blood
sugar, enhance
performance.
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• You may also feel a
psychological
boost in as quickly
as five minutes after
consuming energy
supplements.
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An Endurance Athlete’s Guide to Energy Supplements
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• Energy supplements
can provide an
athlete with energy
during events that
require extreme
endurance.
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• Unlike natural
substances that may
contain these
minerals, such as jelly,
fruit, or honey,
supplements are
convenient and
portable.
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An Endurance Athlete’s Guide to Energy Supplements
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1. Energy gel is a supplement with a
very thick, gelled consistency that
provides carbohydrates to the
body. It is also called an endurance
gel, sports gel, nutritional gel, and
carbohydrate gel. They also allow
the athlete to portion out their
energy supplement a little at a time
compared to the gel, which must be consumed in its entirety at once.
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2. Sports drinks such as
Gatorade, Cliff, and Powerade are designed to maximize and
enhance performance by
providing the minerals and
vitamins to enhance
performance in long-distance sports. Sports drinks significantly
boost your endurances compared with plain water.
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Energy drinks are soft drinks that are
advertised to boost energy. Energy
drinks include methylxanthines
(including caffeine), vitamin B, and
herbs. Other common ingredients
are guarana, acai, and taurine, plus
various forms of ginseng,
maltodextrin, carbonated water,
inositol, carnitine, creatine,
glucuronolactone and ginkgo
biloba.
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An Endurance Athlete’s Guide to Energy Supplements
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The central ingredient in most energy drinks is
caffeine, the same
stimulant found in coffee
or tea, often in the form of guarana or yerba mate.
Energy shots are a
specialized kind of energy
drink.
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3. Electrolyte tabs provide the athlete to carry their
energy in pill form to later
add to their water for
energy. They also contain sodium, calcium and
often Vitamin A and B to
increase energy and
endurance.
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There are a variety of
different energy bars made for specific sexes
and for before, during,
and after a workout.
Some contain fruit for
use during a workout
and contain both carbohydrates and
grains.
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It is general practice to
take a supplement 15-30 minutes before a run or
other endurance event
and every 35-45 minutes
during the event. Middle
and back of the pack athletes should consume
more supplements due to the length of their events.
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Having these supplements on hand will help you deter loss of
body fluids, drop in sugar levels,
depletion in muscle
carbohydrate or fat stores, and altered amino acids levels. Use of
supplements will also lessen your
fatigue. Most are easily digested
and prolong energy levels.
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