Marias Health Blog
Oct
27
2009
![]() Diet has a significant impact on performance in sport and particularly at the elite level. Good nutrition makes it possible to train harder, it becomes more fun and fitness results gets better. There are three important things to consider to improve physical performance, and it is the right diet, the right training and the right rest. To let your muscles recover through rest is important so you can train harder. When you are fitness training you should not eat too close to the workout because then collected a lot of blood to the gastro-intestinal tract, blood is needed out of the muscles. About 3 hours before the cardio workout you should eat and the meal should consist mainly of complex carbohydrates. It’s fine to eat a lighter targets consisting of carbohydrates whit low glycocemic index approximately 30-60 minutes before workout.
A runners’ endurance depends on the availability of glycogen in the muscles. At training and competition emptied muscle cell content of glycogen, and when it happens, the muscles will not continue to develop force. It is then important to replenish after a workout and it does so by eating enough carbohydrates. If you eat as soon as possible after the training, the load is most effective. Here are some examples on what you should train if you are a runner;
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Marias Health Blog
Maria Östlund is a qualified nutrition expert from Sweden. She has a great interest in everything that makes people feel good. To live a healthy life she recommends a varied diet containing all the essential nutrients, in combination with regular exercise. The headlines of her blog will be about nutrients, health, diet and exercise, and she will provide tips and advice of various kinds in these subjects. |
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