Nutrition plays a key
role in exercise performance, and the very act of exercising creates conditions in your body that make it possible to achieve positive nitrogen balance and muscle anabolism.
Improvements
in exercise performance with high - intensity interval training coincide with an increase in skeletal muscle mitochondrial content and function.
In a world where athletes are looking for the tiniest edge, a 2.85 - percent improvement
in exercise performance or capacity is certainly beneficial.
American scientist Luke Bucci found that «controlled studies of Asian ginsengs found improvements
in exercise performance... improvements in muscular strength, maximal oxygen uptake, work capacity, fuel homeostasis, serum lactate, heart rate, visual and auditory reaction times, alertness, and psychomotor skills have also been repeatedly documented».
Evidence is presented that both iron deficiency and magnesium deficiency can result in a significant reduction
in exercise performance; however, the biochemical lesions under - lying the reductions in exercise performance have not been identified.