Question: Top Runners. What do you eat?!? This question is preferably for top/elite distance runners. Medium distance sprinters may answer as well. I am also very well aware of putting this in the diet and fitness section. Why? because I know there are plenty of runners-especially distance runners- here that post, and this question is also about their(your) diet.
I would also prefer that you compete and aim for higher accomplishments, but as long as you're qualified as "elite", it's fine.(elite being having a fairly good time with a fairly long distance)
Why I need elite athletes is because they value the importance of their diet and nutritional needs.
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What do you eat? including supplements. How many meals a day do you eat and how many of each supplement (if any) on a normal off-season week?
Do you drink alcohol? What source does most of your energy intake come from(fats, carbohydrates)?
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Thank you for taking your time to answer my question and detail a normal off-season week.
Answer: High protein with high fats. Low amounts of carbohydrates. Usually carbohydrates only before, during and after a competition.
Question: Couple of Chemistry Question.. ? Would you be in favor of banning dihydrogen monoxide molecule?
If you were doing a study on a nutritional supplement that supposedly helped athletes gain muscles mass faster, why would you want to give half the athletes in the study a sugar pills (as opposed to nothing) while giving the other half the supplement that is being studied?
Why might it be important to know the concentration of the ingredients on energy drinks?
Answer: You would give the control group (the group who are not getting the supplement that you are testing) something that looks just like the supplement so that no one knows whether they are getting the supplement or just the non-functioning pill - a.k.a. the placebo.
This is because it has been shown that some tests can have an effect even with no active ingredient because the patient believes it will work. This is known as the placebo effect and giving the control group something that looks like the supplement and neither of the groups knowing what they have will eliminate the placebo effect.
The concentration of the ingredients would be important so that you could vary them and assess the relative effects of each. If differing drinks have different concentrations of given ingredients it may be found that certain ingredients have a greater effect than others.
