Early studies agree that fasting is detrimental to overall physical performance and to endurance performance in humans; however, a study in rats reporte an ergogenic effect where time to exhaustion was increased by a ...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of CHO ingestion during high intensity exercise performance lasting approximately 25 min. Twelve endurance trained male cyclists (age 19–41 years; body mass 73.2 ± ...

The science of sports nutrition is quickly growing to maturity. The last two decades have seen the publication of the International Journal of Sports Nutrition and many sound textbooks such as those edited by Ron Maughan ...

Este estudio evaluó el efecto del alga espirulina en el tratamiento de reducción de peso en 15 mujeres universitarias, grupo control (n=7) y grupo experimental (n=8). El tratamiento consistió en tres tomas de una cápsula ...

This presentation summarizes some initial evidence for an impairment of exercise performance due to mild dehydration. An attempt is made at defining mild dehydration, and preliminary hypotheses are presented.

The literature has repeatedly reported a negative effect of fasting on endurance exercise in humans. The goal of this study was to test the hypothesis that endurance performance is susceptible to a “negative placebo” or ...

During exercise, an adequate supply of substrates is required for the continuing resynthesis of ATP in working muscles. Muscle fibers have limited stores of creatine phosphate, glycogen, and triglycerides and so must also ...

As pessoas fisicamente ativas devem prestar atenção a sua hidratação. A desidratação tem efeitos negativos sobre o funcionamento do corpo, que vão desde pequenas diminuições no rendimento físico, até problemas por calor ...

The objective of the ACSM Annual Meeting is the exchange of scientific information. Authors of free communications must submi t abstracts by a specific deadline for evaluation. As the written record of those presentations, ...

PURPOSE:to determine the strength of the association between the amount of fluid people say they want to drink after exercise and the actual amount of fluid intake within 30 min post-exercise.