Protein, especially supplements is always a hot topic amongst athletes wanting to; a) recover better from training and competition, and b) adapt better from their training to get bigger, fast and stronger.
So, you’re looking for that 1% extra improvement in your performance…
So, you go to the gym and lift weights… You’ve just been lifting weights in the gym with the goal of increasing muscle mass and strength, this means that you’ve caused both mechanical and metabolic stress on the worked muscles.
Sleep; it takes up approximately a third of our lives, has important biological functions and processes such as endocrine function, learning, memory and cognition. It alters how the body works , and can be an athlete’s best friend, or worst enemy.
Perfecting a game day strategy to improve playing performance can have a profound effect on a rugby player – Especially when it comes to nutrition. With any nutrition strategy, there are many different ideas on how they can be successfully utilised and implemented to bring about the desired performance gains.
You’re dieting, you’re restricting calories, and you’re having cheat days – you repeat this every week where you look forward to that one day where you go ‘all out’.
You’ve been dieting all week, you’re 100% compliant with your food choices and you are following the plan exactly. But then, the weekend comes along and all hell breaks loose and you eat everything in sight – Have you undone all your good work, or can this actually benefit you?
The Off-Season – This can be referred to as the time after your last holiday, bodybuilding show, or the end of summer.It’s a time where the priority shifts from becoming as lean as possible, to putting on as much muscle size as possible.
The clouds and rain appear, the dark nights draw closer, and it is officially the end of summer, meaning that your summer fat loss plan is over.
Competitive time trial rowing events are held over a 2000m straight line course, where completion of the course ranges from 5.5 to 7 minutes depending on individual event classification (Australian Institute of Sport, 2013).
Resistance type training elicits the oxidation of the amino acid leucine.
This literature review aims to recognise nutrient-nutrient interactions and its possible implications in modulating protein synthesis, and hypertrophic responses to intensive type training.
