Sentences with phrase «fuel high intensity activity»

Carbs: Helps fuel high intensity activity.

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«That means that the body's quick - burning fuel can not be accessed during high - intensity bursts of activity and athletic performance is dropping off as a result.»

According to Ryan Andrews of Precision Nutrition, «most high - intensity physical activity is a state of «crisis» in the body: it endangers oxygen supply to tissues, increases body temperature, reduces body fluids and fuel stores, and causes tissue damage.»

Our bodies generally draw upon a combination of carbohydrates and fats to produce ATP, with the exception being very short - duration, high - intensity anaerobic activities, such as a 100 - meter sprint where the primary fuel sources are creatine phosphate, stored ATP, and muscle glycogen (i.e., carbohydrates stored in the muscle).

Carbs provide about four calories of energy per gram (except for fiber, which is calorie - free), and are the body's preferred fuel source for high - intensity activities (like sports, running and weight training).

Nutrients get converted to ATP based on the intensity and duration of activity, with carbohydrate as the main nutrient fueling exercise of a moderate to high intensity, and fat providing energy during exercise that occurs at a lower intensity.

High - intensity activities like sprinting draw upon the glycogen tucked away in our muscles for fuel, which is why you hear about marathoners «carb - loading» in the days before a big race.

In contrast to dietary fat, body fat stores are of tremendous importance during physical activity, as long as the intensity is not too high and there is adequate O2 delivery to use fat as a fuel source.

A good place to start as someone who's doing resistance training and possibly some high - intensity cardio, which is a very carb dominant fuel sourced activity, would be maybe between 40 % — 70 % of carbohydrate.

You can eat a wide variety of low - glycemic carbohydrates that have relatively little impact on your blood sugar (in modest proportions) in order to fuel yourself in a way that allows for high - intensity bouts of activity when necessary.

During a bout of continuous high - intensity physical activity, we fuel the first fifteen to thirty seconds with energy from creatine phosphate.