Archive for October, 2009

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Staying well hydrated during exercise improves performance and safeguards health by defeating dehydration. Here is a list of hydration tips and facts that can benefit anyone who works up a sweat.

The purpose of this short article is to review some of the basic skills taught by communication professionals in media-training seminars. An additional benefit is that many of these skills will help you improve your responses to questions you might be asked following scientific presentations.

Confronted with a constantly changing array of sports nutrition products, the claims for which often appear to bear convincing scientific support, it is not surprising that athletes and coaches have difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction.

Muscle growth and repair are made possible when muscle protein balance is positive, a condition created in part by consuming adequate dietary protein. The type, amount, and timing of protein intake help create an intracellular environment that promotes the synthesis of new muscle protein.

After more than 30 years of giving and listening to scientific presentations, I’ve developed a half-decent sense for what separates a good presentation from a bad one. This short list of presentation tips is based upon the mistakes I’ve made over the years and those I’ve witnessed others make.

A well-formulated sports drink helps athletes get the most out of their bodies by supplying the water, sugar, and salt required to maintain important physiological and metabolic functions. When performance is important, a sports drink is always more effective than plain water.

This handy chart lays out hydration options across the activity spectrum – from sedentary couch potatoes to ultra-endurance athletes.

Sweating doesn’t do much to remove toxins from the body, but it is the body’s most important avenue for heat loss during physical activity and heat exposure. But there is a price to be paid for sweating and that price is dehydration, unless enough fluid is consumed to offset sweat loss.

Although questions about building muscles still outnumber answers, scientists are gradually learning more about how changes in muscle mass and functional capacity take place.