How Can We Avoid the Negative Effects of a Training Break?
Maintaining some training intensity during a holiday break can limit detraining and help preserve aerobic fitness, strength and repeated-sprint capacity.
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Ketone Supplements in Athletes: Do They Work?
Ketone supplements are currently one of the “trending topics” among athletes, especially in cycling. There are many rumors indicating that these su...
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KETOGENIC DIETS: EFFECTS ON PERFORMANCE AND BODY COMPOSITION
Ketogenic diets increase fat oxidation but are not currently supported for improving strength or endurance performance and may compromise muscle-ma...
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Carbohydrates: Essential for Team Sports
Muscle glycogen is crucial for repeated high-intensity efforts in team sports, making carbohydrate intake important before, during and after matches.
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Caffeine improves performance… but is it the same for everyone?
Caffeine can improve endurance, strength and power performance, but responses vary between individuals. This article reviews habitual intake, biolo...
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Nutritional Strategies and Muscle Recovery: Part 3
Part three reviews antioxidant-rich foods, polyphenols and targeted supplements that may reduce exercise-induced muscle damage and support recovery.
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Protein with Carbohydrate for Post-Exercise Glycogen Recovery?
Recovery after training is a fundamental process in performance improvement. Specifically, the restoration of muscle glycogen stores (which decreas...
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HIGH-INTENSITY TRAINING FOR PEOPLE WITH OBESITY
HIIT and moderate continuous training can both improve body composition and cardiometabolic health in people with overweight or obesity, but HIIT r...
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Vegan and an Athlete: Is It Possible?
A well-planned vegan diet can support athletes, but protein quality, essential amino acids and vitamin B12 require particular attention.
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Nutritional Strategies and Muscle Recovery: Part 2
Part two examines how dehydration, hyperthermia and oxidative stress may intensify exercise-induced muscle damage and delay recovery.
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Nutrition During the Injury Recovery Process
The overall goal of the nutritional approach to the injury should aim to shorten the time the athlete is sidelined from sports and get them back to...
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Beef Protein in Elite Triathletes: New Study
As we have mentioned on previous occasions, protein plays a fundamental role in the performance of any athlete, including endurance athletes. Prote...
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