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Fast Facts About Sports Nutrition
  • Water is the most important nutrient for active people.
  • When you sweat, you lose water, which must be replaced. Drink fluids before, during, and after workouts.
  • Water is a fine choice for most workouts. However; during continuous workouts of greater   than 90 minutes, your body may benefit from a sports drink.
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    Sports drinks have two very important ingredients - electrolytes and carbohydrates
  • Sports drinks replace electrolytes lost through sweat during workouts lasting several hours.
  • Carbohydrates in sports drinks provide extra energy. The most effective sports drinks contain 15 to 18 grams of carbohydrate in every 8 ounces of fluid.

Rev up Your Engine with Carbohydrates

 

  • Carbohydrates are your body's main source of energy.
  • Carbohydrates are sugars and starches, and they are found in foods such as breads, cereals, fruits, vegetables, pasta, milk, honey, syrups and table sugar.
  • Sugars and starches are broken down by your body into glucose, which is used by your muscles for energy.   
  • For health and peak performance, more than half your daily calories should come from carbohydrates.
  • Sugars and starches have 4 calories per gram, while fat has 9 calories per gram. In other words, carbohydrates have less than half the calories of fat.
  • If you regularly eat a carbohydrate-rich diet you probably have enough carbohydrate stored to fuel activity. Even so, be sure to eat a pre-competition meal for fluid and additional energy. What you eat as well as when you eat your precompetition meal will be entirely individual.

Flexing Your Options to Build Bigger Muscles

 

It is a myth that eating lots of protein and/or taking protein supplements and exercising vigorously will definitely turn you into a big, muscular person.

 

Building muscle depends on your genes, how hard you train, and whether you get enough calories.

 

The average diet has more than enough protein for muscle building. Extra protein is

eliminated from the body or stored as fat.

 

The Philip Turner Fitness Consultancy

 

 

 

Complete Professional Resistance Tube Training System

Price: £29.99 (rrp £49.00) Delivery charge £1.75

Used by sports professionals and fitness coaches, this great bit of kit offers a versatile resistance tube system facilitating a complete upper and lower body workout. The 35 exercise cards included cover all the major muscle groups through a variety of straight forward upper and lower body exercises. The accessories included allow you to effectively perform the exercises and be more specific in movement. Ideal for badminton training. 

 

A good quality resistance tube training system with robust accessories and a high impact nylon clip system. Contains 5 levels of resistance tubes, 1 pair of handles, 1 Door Anchor, 2 Wrist-Ankle Straps, 35 exercise set cards and a 37cm x 37cm bag for storage.