Top performing athletes know that nutrition is king when it comes to ensuring their bodies are kept in peak condition – and now you do too.
Supplements too can play a pivotal role in increasing energy, promoting muscle growth, and aiding muscle repair. Belinda Reynolds, dietician and nutritionist for IsoWhey Sports and BioCeuticals, shares her top tips for nutrition and supplements to help boost athletic performance and support post-workout recovery.
1. Supplement with magnesium
A magnesium zinc complex taken before training or games can help to maintain bone strength, assist with blood flow and heart-rate performance, as well as aid recovery by reducing muscular aches, pains and cramps. In addition, magnesium also helps to metabolise nutrients so that you can get energy from the foods you eat.
Magnesium is commonly depleted in highly active, and stressed individuals, making it an important nutrient to pay attention to repleting on a daily basis. Often referred to as “the great relaxer”, magnesium is essential not only for the musculoskeletal system, but also for sound cardiovascular and neural/brain/mood health. Magnesium also exerts anti-inflammatory benefits for the body, which is very useful when you’re pushing yourself hard during training sessions.
Supplements too can play a pivotal role in increasing energy, promoting muscle growth, and aiding muscle repair. Belinda Reynolds, dietician and nutritionist for IsoWhey Sports and BioCeuticals, shares her top tips for nutrition and supplements to help boost athletic performance and support post-workout recovery.
1. Supplement with magnesium
A magnesium zinc complex taken before training or games can help to maintain bone strength, assist with blood flow and heart-rate performance, as well as aid recovery by reducing muscular aches, pains and cramps. In addition, magnesium also helps to metabolise nutrients so that you can get energy from the foods you eat.
Magnesium is commonly depleted in highly active, and stressed individuals, making it an important nutrient to pay attention to repleting on a daily basis. Often referred to as “the great relaxer”, magnesium is essential not only for the musculoskeletal system, but also for sound cardiovascular and neural/brain/mood health. Magnesium also exerts anti-inflammatory benefits for the body, which is very useful when you’re pushing yourself hard during training sessions.
2. Use an electrolyte formula
Post-exercise, an electrolyte formula can help to rehydrate the body and replenish the electrolytes lost during a game, through sweat and exertion. When talking about electrolyte replacement, many will often think only of sodium/salt, however, there are many essential electrolytes/minerals which can be lost (thus requiring replenishment) during an intense and/or long training session/competition.
Therefore, a product which contains all-natural ingredients, no added sugars, and magnesium, potassium and calcium together with sodium is of great benefit. Just ensure that you mix the solution up according to directions (or dilute it a little more) to achieve optimal and rapid absorption. Not mixing in enough water can create a hypertonic solution which is absorbed more slowly into the body, hindering the desired process of rapid hydration and replenishment.
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