KINE 408 Study Guide - Final Guide: Phosphocreatine, Lean Body Mass, Metabolic Acidosis
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Athletes want to improve exercise performance: drugs and supplements part of mainstream athletics (14, sports teams doctors and athletic trainers unfamiliar benefits and risks (14, aimed at enhancing performance by affecting metabolism or affecting. Nutritional: accepted techniques like carbohydrate loading, vitamins, electrolytes, visualization, stress management account for nutritional and psychological ergogenic aids (19, neutraceutical industry (14) Questionable quality and side effects: resist infection (15) improve general health legal. Most widely used in sport presently (15) increase muscle creatine phosphate levels improve short term high intensity exercise performance. Enhance exercise performance where metabolic acidosis limits it (15) Helps keep athletes going for longer apparently. Helps body process lactic acid which is the burning sensation in muscles during exercise. Repetition of high intensity exercise stresses the anaerobic glycolysis system. May help lower acid production thus reducing pain and improving performance (24) Marketed as a fat burner increase fat metabolism and utilization resulting in body fat loss.
