The glycogen deposits are reduced and it is very difficult to exceed the 2.500-3.000 kcal. In long distance tests it is impossible to finish a test of these characteristics without ingesting food. However many athletes suffer gastrointestinal discomfort due to difficulties in absorbing the food.
Our Collaborator Reebok Performance, tells us on this occasion Why do these types of moles appear and how can we train? to our stomach to avoid them on the day of the competition.
With a study it has been exposed that from an 30 to 50% of participants suffer discomfort gastrointestinal But in another conducted on one of the most demanding triathlons in the world of (Embrunman) in severe weather conditions, hup to an 93% incidence of gastrointestinal problems (study).
Most of the discomfort are due to gastric emptying and this depends on several factors being the most important:
Just as we train our body and our mind to face competition, we must not forget this aspect and more if we have already had a bad experience.
1º Stomach capacity: This organ is able to adapt to ingest large amounts of liquid or food, and can increase up to four times its size. In this way it has been demonstrated that the practice of these habits can increase the comfort of the stomach (study)
2º Sugar transporters: The absorption of carbohydrates occurs thanks to specific transporters and these limit the ability to pass into the blood. It has been possible to verify during 28 days comparing a group with low consumption of CH and another with high, that it is possible to increase the oxidation of ingested glucose by almost 10% only in the group that consumed high amounts of CH (study).
3º Type of diet: The type of diet can greatly influence the capacity of HC absorption during competition. If we use a low HC diet, the absorption of these during competition will be more limited
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