an endurance athlete’s guide
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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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An Endurance Athlete’s Guide to Energy Supplements
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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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An Endurance Athlete’s Guide to Energy Supplements
By Christina Chapan
• 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
By Christina Chapan
• Energy supplements can provide an athlete with energy during events that require extreme endurance.
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An Endurance Athlete’s Guide to Energy Supplements
By Christina Chapan
• 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
By Christina Chapan
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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An Endurance Athlete’s Guide to Energy Supplements
By Christina Chapan
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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An Endurance Athlete’s Guide to Energy Supplements
By Christina Chapan
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
By Christina Chapan
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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An Endurance Athlete’s Guide to Energy Supplements
By Christina Chapan
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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An Endurance Athlete’s Guide to Energy Supplements
By Christina Chapan
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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An Endurance Athlete’s Guide to Energy Supplements
By Christina Chapan
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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An Endurance Athlete’s Guide to Energy Supplements
By Christina Chapan
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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