Dietary Fuels in Athletic Performance.

Dietary Fuels in Athletic Performance. Annu Rev Nutr. 2019 May 28;: Authors: Fritzen AM, Lundsgaard AM, Kiens B Abstract Focusing on daily nutrition is important for athletes to perform and adapt optimally to exercise training. The major roles of an athlete's daily diet are to supply the substrates needed to cover the energy demands for exercise, to ensure quick recovery between exercise bouts, to optimize adaptations to exercise training, and to stay healthy. The major energy substrates for exercising skeletal muscles are carbohydrate and fat stores. Optimizing the timing and type of energy intake and the amount of dietary macronutrients is essential to ensure peak training and competition performance, and these strategies play important roles in modulating skeletal muscle adaptations to endurance and resistance training. In this review, recent advances in nutritional strategies designed to optimize exercise-induced adaptations in skeletal muscle are discussed, with an emphasis on mechanistic approaches, by describing the physiological mechanisms that provide the basis for different nutrition regimens. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Nutrition Volume 39 is August 21, 2019. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates. PMID: 31136266 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Annual Review of Nutrition - Category: Nutrition Authors: Tags: Annu Rev Nutr Source Type: research