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Nutrient Loading for Athletes
Nutrient Loading for Athletes
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Nutrient Loading for Athletes
For most athletes and female competitive body builders, who participate in endurance sports, they require a good source of energy that will keep them going for a long time without being depleted. It is upon this reason that most athletes look for viable nutrition programs that can help them endure these demanding times (Coleman, 2010).
Because people recognize the need for efficient use of nutrients for maximum output, most athletes have been utilizing carbohydrates to supply them with the much needed energy. This means they have been practicing carbohydrate loading. Loading in this case is used to refer to the increasing of the stores of a particular nutrient so that it can be used during a much demanding period in an individual’s life like participating in an exercise. Some of the most commonly used forms of loading include carbohydrate and fat loading. In carbohydrate loading, an individual or athlete is subjected to consumption of carbohydrate dense meal just before the exercise and also during the course of the exercise. This is believed to improve the performance of the female body builder in the exercise before them by supplying them with the needed energy throughout the exercise. For fat loading, the subject is given a high fat diet some days before the exercise, to build fat stores that can be used during intense exercise and ensure the person can endure long exercises (Coleman, 2010).
The athlete is thus is able to do fat loading. The main reason why fat loading is beneficial is on the basis of endurance. The rationale behind the athletes not using the ready and most known source of energy, carbohydrates, is that the carbohydrates when used as a source of energy in activity leads to early burnout and thus reduced performance. Carbohydrates are a good source of energy when one is involved in short and less involving exercises but when it comes to long enduring exercises, the energy supplied by carbohydrates becomes limited. This is especially the case because of the inability of the athlete to consume the carbohydrate rich foods and inefficiency of the body to store energy. It is believed that carbohydrate source of energy is depleted very fast during intense and long exercise and thus there is need to come up with a source of energy that can be released gradually and for long time. It is upon this realization that the concept of fat loading was adopted. The first advantage of fat loading is that it is good at slowing down the use of carbohydrate stores and ensures the carbohydrates are saved(Carey, Staudacher &Cummings, 2011).
Fat as a source of energy real comes in handy during intense exercise. For the female body builder involved in intense exercise, they develop an adaptation that helps them to increase theircapacity of oxidizing fats. For short events the fats are not used a lot for energy provision but when the endurance increases the fats are the main source of energy. Another reason why fat loading is important for a female body builder is that they have muscles that have improved capability owing to the increased number of mitochondria, to utilize fat efficiently. This is not the case for the muscles of people who are not involved in exercise daily. Because the fat source of energy allows slow release of energy, it is effective for an athlete as they will exercise for a longer period before the individual gets exhausted(Coleman, 2010).
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Carey, A., Staudacher, H. M. &Cummings, N.K. (2011). Effects of fat adaptation
and carbohydrate restoration on prolonged endurance exercise. Journal of Applied Physiology.Pp.115-122.
Coleman, E. (2010). Fat loading for endurance sports.
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History Questions 11
History Questions 11
Introduction
Question 1
John Stuart Mills talked about human liberty, where he outlined the appropriate region of human liberty as encompassing three aspects. There is the liberty of conscience, which is the absolute freedom of sentiment and opinion on all subjects, speculative, practical, theological, moral and scientific. The second aspect revolves around liberty of tastes and pursuits where an individual is free to frame his plan of life to fit his own character as long as the subsequent consequences do not have fellow human beings. Third, they have the liberty to unite for any purpose that does not involve harming other people.
While individuals had all the freedom to pursue their own happiness, there are instances the law should interfere with their individual freedom against the individuals’ will. This is especially in instances where their actions would cause harm to other people. Of particular note is the fact that causing harm to oneself would not be a sufficient warrant for such interference, although such harm would come as a powerful reason for remonstrating the actions.
Tyranny or dictatorship primarily took the form of one individual lording it over a majority. However, this was replaced by democracy, which was based on the idea that individuals should rule themselves. However, this only amounted to the rule of the majority other the minority. In essence, democracy is a new form of tyranny as individual freedom or liberty would be denied purely based on numbers. This, according to Mills, meant that the values, ideals and ideas of the majority would be imposed on all other individuals that represented less than 50% of the electorate.
Question 2
Giuseppe Mazzini also spoke of the idea of liberty and democracy of human beings. He seems to agree with John Stuart Mills with regard to democracy. John Stuart states that the individuals that exercise the power are usually not the same one over whom such power is exercised, in which case self-government is not always the “government of each by himself” rather it is each by the rest. In democracies, the individuals who are successful in obtaining the acceptance of the majority may see it fit to oppress a proportion of the people. The self-interest of the individuals in power is underlined in Mazzini’s statement that the governments never recognize any country apart from their own dynasty or families or rather the egoism of caste.
Benito Mussolini, however, would disagree with John Stuart Mills on the idea of liberty. Mills tends to value personal liberty to pursue one’s interests as far as the interests do no harm other individuals. This means that liberty can and should exist in an individual. However, Benito Mussolini, while acknowledging the importance of liberty states that liberty can only be real when it entails the liberty of the state or rather the liberty of an individual within a state. However, Benito and Stuart Mills have a common ground as far as democracy is concerned. Stuart Mills is a bit wary of democracy and calls it “the tyranny of the majority over the minority”. Benito Mussolini, on the other hand, does not see how the majority, simply based on their numbers should direct the course of human society. He does not see how numbers alone can be used in governing through periodical consultations and acknowledges that human beings will never be equal.
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