Sports and athletics require rigorous training and physical activity. Even the simplest of physical activity can drain your body of all its energy.
- What can keep your energy up?
- What can enhance your performance in sports?
- What can give you an edge up in any athletic competition?
The answer to all these questions is nutrition.
A well planned, adequate and energy wise adopted diet can take you places. It serves as an appropriate fuel for a physically strained body. Even the ones who don’t do much of physical activity, need proper nutrition to live a healthy lifestyle.
Following a prescribed dietary plan on most days is almost impossible. Busy schedules keep us preoccupied enough to not pay enough attention to our body’s need for nutrition. However, nutrition is extremely important for athletes and sportsmen.
All athletes and sportsmen need to eat differently than the non-athletes. In fact, all sportsmen and athletes, eac need a different diet and different proportions of nutrients. In order to make up for the drained human body, to restore strength and nutrition and to enhance performance, there is a list full of sports nutrition supplements that every sportsman and athlete can and must take.
Sports Nutrition Manufacturers are made with an adequate proportions of herbs, minerals, vitamins, acids and other nutrients important for the human body. To add to that, in order to make them more convenient they are available in different forms including powders, liquid and even doses (or pills). The better use of these supplements is to bridge the gap between diets and replace missed diets due to the busy and strenuous schedule of an athlete or a sportsman. For better maintenance of health, these supplements can be taken on a regular basis.
To talk about sports drinks in particular, they are especially designed to keep the body hydrated and loaded with sodium and potassium that is lost through sweat. It helps maintain the sugar levels in the body therefore keeping the energy of your body from going low. Another benefit of the same is that it prevents cramping, therefore highly advised while pertaining,
However, since each athlete's daily schedule, list of physical activities, sport itself is different, so the requirement of the supplement is also different. Therefore, it is highly advised to not take any sports nutrition supplements without consulting with a doctor first. Also, make sure the doctor is well aware of your daily activities and the intensity of those activities.
To make things more clear, here are a certain do’s and don’ts:
●The supplements that you take do not fully masks up for the diets that you miss. Therefore, do not try to replace the supplements fully with your diet.
● In India, FSSAI regulates the health supplements and nutraceuticals. Therefore, before buying or consuming any supplements make sure that the product and the brand is tested and certified by the authorities concerned.
