(Español) El cromo como suplemento dietético
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(Español) El Boro como suplemento dietético
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The Use Supplements to Avoid Suboptimal Nutrition in Athletes
Diet, nutrition and feeding Diet involves the process of nutrition and the feeding patterns. Nutrition is an involuntary physiological process by which the body acquires the necessary nutrients for life. There …
Are meta-analysis in resistance training the “gold standard” scientific references?
The recent article by Gentil et al. (2017), suggests that resistance training meta-analyses which compare studies with no homogeneous control of the training variables may be inadequate. For example, (Ralston …
Amount of protein and consumption patterns in athletes
The two recently published position stand by the American College of Sports Medicine (Thomas et al., 2016) and the International Society of Sport Nutrition (Jager et al., 2017) recommend …
Does the ingestion of protein prior to sleep configure a good strategy for maximizing the benefit of training?
Scientific literature suggests that increasing the provision of dietary protein prior to sleep would represent an effective nutritional intervention to increase plasma amino acid availability, improve whole-body protein balance and …
Are protein supplements necessary for maximizing resistance-training outcomes?
Despite some well conducted meta-analysis concluded that protein supplementation is effective to support resistance training outcomes (Cermak et al., 2012, Naclerio and Larumbe-Zabala, 2016), two recently published studies (Reidy et …
The correct uses of the Rates of Perceived Exertions scales are highly dependent of the instructions provided from the coaches: Perception of effort or exertion perception of force.
As stated by Pageaux (2016), the Oxford Dictionary defines effort as “strenuous physical or mental exertion” and exertion as “physical or mental effort.” Perception of effort is a …
Rate of Perceived Exertion Scales: A Useful Tool for Controlling Resistance Training Load and Intensity
(Naclerio et al., 2015). The most used approach consists of linking the magnitude of muscular effort to a numeric RPE value in order to express the subjective level of effort …
β-Alanine Supplementation in athletes
Beta-alanine (BA) is a endogenously produced amino acid with a relevant role as rate-limiting precursor to carnosine synthesis in skeletal muscle (Trexler et al., 2015). Higher levels of carnosine in …