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What's Eating Before Exercise?

Written By rajablos on Senin, 27 Juni 2011 | 20.49

Eating before and after exercise is essential to provide the fuel needed to practice, as well as restoring the body after practice. However, what is the food menu is suitable to be consumed before exercise?

According to Dr. Samuel Oetoro, MS, SpGK, clinical nutrition specialist, because sports are essentially requires energy, which is needed is a food containing carbohydrates. "But the carb is not a simplex, which is absorbed rapidly and fall rapidly. Choose complex carbohydrates," said the doctor who practiced in Semanggi Specialist Clinic.

 
Besides rice, other examples of complex carbohydrates are potatoes (eaten with skin) and corn. The principle of balanced nutrition should still be applied by adding the protein (10-20 percent), fat (20-25 percent), as well as vitamins and minerals (can be obtained from vegetables and fruits).

If you choose heavy foods such as rice, do not overeat. When the digestive tract is too heavy or disturbed, then we can stomach ache, nausea and even vomiting. Foods like this should also be consumed two hours before exercising. For a loaf of wheat bread or a baked potato, snacks like that can be consumed one hour before exercise.

Types of snacks such as energy bars can also be an option. However, you need to watch the nutritional composition. Do not choose foods that have high fat content because fat difficult to digest. Carbohydrate absorption process became less effective.

On the sidelines of sports, you certainly feel thirsty. You need to drink more water. However, water alone is not enough because the body is exposed to electrolyte and mineral during exercise so it needs to be satisfied again.

"Drink the juice is not too cold and not too sweet. What is needed is an extract of the fruit only, so do not be mixed with water and do not take fiber," suggests Samuel.

After the exercise, energy needs to be restored with the correct nutrition to maintain muscle tissue, preparing the muscles for your next workout, helps reduce muscle pain, and prevent injuries. However, do not immediately stop by the restaurant field even if you feel hungry.

Because the source of glucose during exercise we drop, we need to replace it with a sweet drink. One hour after exercise, drinking juice with a combination of three fruits, like oranges, watermelon, and cantaloupe. After that, you can eat chicken porridge, for example, are easily digested.

Sports drinks can also be an alternative. But, again, note the nutritional composition. Choose a drink that contains carbohydrates, electrolytes, sodium, potassium, and chlorine. In contrast, the type of energy drinks should not be an option because it was added to the stimulant of caffeine and taurine.

Two hours after practice, you can just eat more severe. In principle, back to food with balanced nutrition.

If you are just doing weight training or resistance training, the muscle tissue damage should be restored by eating protein. However, it could still be careful not to overdo it. Foods generally contain a protein naturally, so you do not need to overdo the eating protein or a protein bar high protein.
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Coffee Reduce Pain At Sports

Drinking coffee may be the last thing people think before exercise, but this drink turned out to help prevent the pain during exercise.

 
A study published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise describing experiments conducted to prove it. One group of female respondents were given caffeine (in two different doses) and the other group was given a drink that is not mentioned kind one hour before exercise bike for 30 minutes. Muscle pain that occurs in the legs in the group who consumed caffeine was reduced by 33-46 percent.

"Caffeine blocks the chemical driving force of pain, called adenosine, and does not depend on the dose," said study author, Robert Motl from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. However, it is said also that people who already drink a certain amount of caffeine every day may not be experiencing the effects of the same pain relief.

Drinking coffee before doing strength training can make you able to lift the load a little easier. The proof is done through other research methods. In a study published in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, described how 37 people taking the pills did not mention the type, or a supplement of caffeine equivalent to two cups of coffee as much as 236 ml. An hour later, after doing bench press, those who consume caffeine can lift weights 2.2 kg heavier than the pill.

"Caffeine can help you achieve better muscle activation, and it helps you lift more weight," said Travis Beck, leader of the study from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

When done regularly, heavier strength training will produce more muscle mass and decrease body fat in total.
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Quick Ways to Overcome Cramps

Cramps during exercise might occur. However, we do not need to panic because Fabio Comana, exercise physiologist, has a quick way to relieve pain in muscles that are tense.



Drinking: Dehydration is one cause of cramps. This occurs because the body's electrolyte levels are affected when we are dehydrated. Drink at least 600 ml of water, three hours before the move. And, another drink as much as 250 ml every 15 minutes during exercise.

Flex Muscle: Stop the activity that we are doing, then try to flex its muscles in an area that feels sore for 20-45 seconds, or until the pain goes away. Cramping is a symptom of muscle tension. So, flexing muscles is the right solution.

Press the cramps: It can help release muscle tension. In addition, the pressure will also stimulate muscle receptors to release tension.

Massage the sore area with a loud: Like when we kneading pastry dough. This method is a combination of the two previous methods, ie, flexing and pressing.
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5 Reasons You Need Weight Training More Weight

Many women are reluctant to do weight training (weight training), for fear that his muscles will grow like Madonna or Sarah Jessica Parker. In fact, it is difficult for women to build muscle so much, except when he was experiencing overtraining. You are not any celebrity who spends five days a week for weight training, right?

However, it is important for women to balance between strength training and endurance exercises. "If women just do resistance training and weight training are reluctant to heavier, they did not use his training time efficiently," says Sara Haley, instructors and trainers from Reebok Global. "In addition, weight training will not cause many problems in later life."

He then showed some gains when you do weight training, and progressively lifting heavier weights over time.

1. The use of time would be more efficient, because you'll be more tired and reach your maximum capability more quickly. The lighter the load requires a lot of repetition, which means spending more time in the gym (or at home, if you exercise at home). Especially if your exercise program is not set properly.

2. Once women entered the age of 30 years, they will lose muscle mass up to 226 grams per year. The more weight you can lift, the more muscle you are able to replace. In addition you will also help prevent osteoporosis and bone density loss.

3. The more muscle you have on the body, the more calories you can burn all the time (which is why men lose weight faster, because they have more muscle mass than women). In fact, when you sleep your body burns calories.

4. Increase the amount of weight you use can make you easier to track and evaluate progress of training.

5. Choose a heavier weight helps you live a more functional. Because, everyday activities such as parenting, shopping, housework, etc., make us have to lift or move loads. You certainly do not want every time you have to ask someone for help when you have to lift anything heavy, is not it? What if you have to play with the kids, but you can not lift his body getting heavier?
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Weight Training for Beginners

Fitness expert and author of Two Week Total Body Turnaround, Chris Freytag, stated, muscle mass requires pressure in order to survive. If the muscle develops, the faster the metabolic rate and burning fat more effectively. Not only that, weight training will also enhance our sports sessions.

For example, if we exercise jogging every day and is equipped with weight training, which are trained not only the heart but also form a network of hand muscles and the abdomen. Because, in principle muscle mass requires that the pressure to survive. "If the muscles are growing, the rate of metabolism will burn fat faster and become more effective," said Freytag.

So, interested in weight training, but confused to choose the right weight? Or do not know the exact formulation of repetition? If this question is actually inhibiting our intention, should not be. Because, according to Dr. Pam Peeke, fitness expert and spokesperson for the American College of Sports Medicine, it is a fair question for people who are just starting weight training. Peeke also then provide a complete guide for us to start with proper weight training routine.

1. Warm up and learn the correct movement technique. This will help you avoid injury. If necessary, ask for directions to the personal trainer or friend who is already experienced.

2. Begin slowly, aka do not be too ambitious to start training with weights that superberat or in a long time. Studies say, a set of exercises (12 reps) with a suitable load capability as effective as three sets of exercises with heavy loads. What is meant by a suitable load is the weight we can lift as much as 12-15 times without stopping.

3. After 4 weeks of regular exercise, plus the amount of load. According to Peeke, the better increase the amount of weight than exercise time. "Lifting the same weight for 4 weeks with a frequency of 15 minutes without stopping, not to challenge the body. Muscles do not grow, "he said.

4. One type of muscle for a time. For example, Monday to exercise the hand and shoulder. Tuesday for leg and thigh muscles. Wednesday and Thursday for the stomach. Friday and Saturday to exercise the buttocks and back.

5. Rest. After working hard all week, our muscles need to rest to avoid injury. Decides to time one day to rest from the exhausting physical activity.
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When Aching, Do not stamped Joints!

When the body feels stiff and sore, stomping the joints until the sound was comforting and seemed to eliminate the stiffness. But this should not become a habit because it can have serious repercussions.
Sure if dientakkan until the sound feels less stiff. But manipulation of the neck as it could cause a bulge growing pressure on the nerve

The pain and stiffness in the neck, waist, or hands are largely caused by a lack of stretching muscles. But the pain in the neck and waist can also be triggered by a pinched nerve. Menggemeratakkan joints feared it increasingly pressing against a nerve.

"Sure if dientakkan until the sound feels less stiff. But such a manipulation of the neck can cause a bulge growing pressure on the nerve," said dr.Maysam Irawati, a neurologist from Fatmawati General Hospital in South Jakarta, in a talk show 'Comfortable Working Without Pain 'in Jakarta some time ago.

Similar disclosed dr. Aris Wibudy, Sp.PD. He said the habit of stomping the joints can cause inflammation. "If the joints to ache dientakkan will inevitably arise inflammation and enlarged joints books," he said in a separate occasion.

To reduce stiffness and soreness, dr.Maysam suggest that we are stretching up every three hours. "Do calisthenics neck for 5 minutes. Move slowly to the right and left side, then looked up menduduk," he advised.

Strengthening exercises the muscles supporting joints also should be done regularly to maintain flexibility and prevent joint pain.

Alternating cold and hot compresses on the back of the neck during each 20 minutes can also reduce discomfort. But hot and cold compress is not recommended for those who have heart problems or circulation problems.
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Muscles Recover Faster

Isotonic drinks or sports drinks become a favorite of many people after physical activity. But the two latest studies concluded chocolate milk is the ideal drink to restore the physical stamina after exercise.

"Athletes or people who exercise for fitness alike will get optimal physical recovery if they drink low-fat chocolate milk after working out hard," said Dr. John Ivy of the University of Texas, Austin, USA, who conducted this research.

Those who drank chocolate milk after exercise also has a composition body with more muscle mass and less fat. In addition to longer endurance, and generally better physical shape than the participants who consumed a sports drink that contains only carbohydrates.

Research conducted by Ivy and his team carried out comparing the benefits of physical recovery among those who drank chocolate milk after exercise with a sports drink that has a composition and the same amount of calories in sports drinks on the market.

Testing is done by asking the 10 athletes bike to ride a bike for 90 minutes at moderate intensity and then increased to a high intensity for 10 minutes.

The researchers found athletes to have more power and pedaling faster if they eat low-fat chocolate milk drink compared with a sports drink or a calorie-free beverages.

The researchers also tested 32 men and women amateur cyclists to exercise speed (spinning) five times a week followed by consuming three drinks that were tested.

The result, after 4.5 months of exercise, drinking chocolate milk has increased in terms of maximal oxygen uptake compared to the other. Maximal oxygen uptake is an indicator of aerobic endurance athletes and the ability to exercise continuously.

The amateur cyclists of chocolate milk group also set up more muscle and trim more fat during exercise.

"We are not sure the mechanism that causes the low-fat chocolate milk gives this benefit to the athletes. But naturally combined protein and carbohydrate in these drinks may have influence," said Ivy.

In addition to drink right after exercise, he also reminded the importance of three-minute recovery period after exercise.
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