Dietary fuels in athletic performance

TY - JOUR

T1 - Dietary fuels in athletic performance

AU - Fritzen, Andreas Mæchel

AU - Lundsgaard, Annemarie

AU - Kiens, Bente

N1 - CURIS 2019 NEXS 187

PY - 2019/8/21

Y1 - 2019/8/21

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Faculty of Science

KW - Exercise

KW - Training

KW - Nutrition

KW - Carbohydrate

KW - Fat

KW - Protein

U2 - 10.1146/annurev-nutr-082018-124337

DO - 10.1146/annurev-nutr-082018-124337

M3 - Review

C2 - 31136266

SN - 0199-9885

VL - 39

SP - 45

EP - 73

JO - Annual Review of Nutrition

JF - Annual Review of Nutrition

ER -