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What does our supplementation provide if the food is correct?
Bringing correct feeding habits is basic to obtain our best performance and of course for our health. The phrase "We are what we eat", sometimes mistakenly attributed to Hippocrates, it is a reality that, fortunately, the sports community is applying.
Years ago it was weird that at the stop of a bike bike the majority of the group did not eat a chocolate palm, a donut or any type of industrial pastries. Today, much less normal than this happens, even in athletes who do not look for performance, but have a good time with friends and go out to leave the stress of the working day.
As for what supplementation contributes the answer is: What we cannot achieve through correct food in the quantities, moment, independence of other substances that we need in specific moments in which our body needs them, and suitability of format or ease of consumption. A clear example is the need for protein after strength training if we need it. It is much easier, comfortable, economical, easily assimilable and hygienic to take a shake with 20g of protein than 100g of chicken breast. In the same way that it is equally better, by digestibility and easy assimilation, supply of macro and micronutrients, portability and hygiene, drink an energy gel or a sports drink during exercise or competition with minerals and some vitamins, that a normal panecillo smeared with cocoa cream or a piece of cheese, no matter how “natural” that may seem to us and much that can fancy us.
The reason is that there are high specific demands in the body caused by an extraordinary physical effort for which it is necessary to provide substances in specific quantity and moment that a correct diet cannot contribute for different reasons. It is obvious that the polecillo mentioned before requires more time for digestion and more water than an energy gel or a sports drink.
By Jesús Sánchez Bas and Guillermo Olcina Camacho. Original Source: Triathlon magazine
