Full Description
Two crucial components of a healthy life are nutrition and exercise. The importance of appropriate diet, food and nutrition are extremely important to be successful in sports, and, especially, in extreme sports. Extreme sport is an activity where a participant must demonstrate both mental and physical skills. This type of activity provides an adrenaline rush to individuals who are part of the "community of extreme sportsmen."
Extreme sports provide opportunity for individuals to be active and fit with added enjoyment of partaking in a fun activity. Extreme sports in conjunction with proper nutrition helps to boost immunity and resistance against common infections. Studies have also exhibited that sports and exercise activities help in managing effective work-life balance as well.
Extreme and Rare Sports: Performance Demands, Drivers, Functional Foods, and Nutrition provides a comprehensive treatise on extreme sports emphasizing the importance of nutrition and research-driven nutraceutical supplements in injury prevention and treatment. The book presents information on the nutritional requirements of sports activities on land, in water, or with high altitude-base. It covers a wide variety of definitions, philosophies, thoughts and practices involved with structurally diverse extreme sports.
Features:
Discusses specific food and nutritional requirements in extreme sports
Provides information on the importance of functional foods, nutrition and structurally diverse phytonutrients for different sports
Features information on Olympic and diverse extreme sports
Details the importance of hydration and use of gelatin; skeletal muscle damage and recovery from eccentric contractions; and information on dietary supplements and antioxidants
Presents analysis on growth, marketing, techniques, and future of extreme sports
Contents
Contents Preface .................................................................................................xi Editors .................................................................................................xv Contributors .......................................................................................xvii Section I?Introduction to Extreme Sports Chapter 1 Extreme Endurance Sports - Why Not Just Sports? ..................3 David Townes Section II?Extreme Sports: Swimming, Contact, and Combat Sports and Factors Affecting Extreme Sports Chapter 2 Open-Water Swimming .................................................................. 11 Paola Zamparo, Roberto Baldassarre, Marco Bonifazi, and Maria Francesca Piacentini Chapter 3 Contact and Combat Sports: Sports Nutrition Benefits ..................... 35 Jonathan Mike Chapter 4 An Overview on the Nutritional Requirements for Athletes Engaged in Extreme Endurance Events ............................................................49 Chad Kerksick Section III?Overview of Food and Nutritional Requirements for Diverse Extreme Sports Chapter 5 Functional Foods: Role in Endurance Sports ........................................ 73 Kamesh Venkatakrishnan and Chin-Kun Wang Chapter 6 Prosthetics and Limb Health in Extreme Sports .................................. 115 Sashwati Roy, Shomita S. Mathew-Steiner, and Chandan K. Sen Chapter 7 Nutritional Requirements in Extreme Sports ......................................127 Matthew Butawan, Jade L. Caldwell, and Richard J. Bloomer Chapter 8 Dietary Supplements for Use in Extreme Sports ...................................................................................................................... 143 Nicholas J.G. Smith, Matthew Butawan, and Richard J. Bloomer Chapter 9 Intake of Selected Nutrients and Some Morphological and Biochemical Blood Parameters of Professional Athletes ..................................... 177 Estera Nowacka-Polaczyk, Teresa Leszczy?ska, Aneta Kope?, and Jerzy Zawistowski Chapte
