Potassium and Sodium for Athletes: Essential minerals and nutrients
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|Every human needs a reasonable supply of all minerals and nutrients. The demand just gets doubled when your figure changes from just an average physique to a muscular, athletic one. Hitting the gym is not your only option, and if you truly want to enjoy perfect health, you need to take care of your mineral and nutrient count. Two of such important ingredients of human body include potassium and sodium. Let us have a look at why are they so important for athletes.
In order to prove its importance, you should note that the third most abundant mineral in the human body is potassium. Even though it holds great significance to keep our bodies on the track, about 98% of the American’s are below the required threshold of potassium content (just to give you an idea).
This is probably the most important thing required by an athlete. If his muscles are gaining strength, he probably does not need to reconsider anything in his lifestyle.
Potassium enables your muscles to contract and relax efficiently. As a result, it enables you to work out excessively and undergo an array of strenuous exercises to keep up the stamina and build strength. Moreover, it also enables an efficient brain working which implies that your brain and muscles can work with an enhanced collaboration.
Athletes sweat excessively, and in order to stay in the competition, they must be hydrated. Here, it has an anti-sodium effect. Since an excess of sodium makes water retention less efficient, you must ensure to intake potassium in reasonable amounts. Potassium tends to pull out the excess of water and sodium from the cells to maintain equilibrium.
Potassium elevates the rate of metabolism, and it also ensures that the maximum number of required nutrients and minerals are extracted from the ingested food. Moreover, it has also shown positive results for synthesizing muscle protein. So ultimately, it helps in making an athlete’s muscle bigger and stronger.
It is a very important component of your composition which needs to be present in the perfect amount. Quite frankly, you cannot risk it going off the suggested boundaries, or your body might react differently. Athletes tend to sweat a lot, and of course, they get paid for sweating! But this process makes them lose an array of salts from the body. Therefore, in order to compensate for the salt loss, it is important to consume the deficit salt.
When an athlete is in the business, he needs to exert and act perfectly. Therefore, it is important to keep a perfect balance of sodium to ensure that his body parts are coordinating with a very efficient nerve transmission system.
For serious athletes, it is very critical to maintain the extracellular blood volume, and that is where sodium comes into play.
It is important to remember that the sodium stores in your body are limited and once they start decreasing (by sweating, etc.), your body cannot produce on its own. So you are responsible for refilling this debt!
Potasiamu na Sodiamu kwa Wanariadha: Madini na Vyakula Mahitaji ya Kila Mtu Kwa sababu ya mahitaji ya mwili, mtu anaweza kubadilisha sura yake kutoka kwa kawaida ya mwili hadi kwa mwili wa mwili wa mwili. Kuenda kwenye mazoezi si njia pekee ya afya, lakini ikiwa unataka kuwa na afya nzuri, unahitaji kuzingatia viwango vya madini na virutubisho. Viungo viwili muhimu vya mwili wa binadamu ni pamoja na potasiamu na sodiamu. Hebu tuone ni kwa nini ni muhimu sana kwa wanariadha. Kwa sababu ya umuhimu wake, ni muhimu kutambua kwamba madini ya tatu katika mwili wa binadamu ni potasiamu. Ingawa ni muhimu sana kuweka miili yetu kwenye njia, karibu 98% ya Wamarekani ni chini ya kiwango kinachohitajika cha potasiamu. Hii ni labda jambo muhimu zaidi linalohitajika na mwanariadha. Ikiwa misuli yake inakuwa na nguvu, huenda isiwe lazima afikirie tena maisha yake. Potasiamu huwezesha misuli yako kukata na kupumzika kwa ufanisi. Kwa sababu hiyo, unaweza kufanya mazoezi mengi na kufanya mazoezi mengi ya nguvu ili kudumisha nguvu na nguvu. Kwa kuongezea, pia huwezesha kazi ya ubongo yenye ufanisi ambayo inamaanisha kwamba ubongo wako na misuli inaweza kufanya kazi kwa ushirikiano ulioboreshwa. Wanariadha hutokwa na jasho kupita kiasi, na ili waweze kuendelea na mashindano, ni lazima wawe na maji mengi. Hapa, ina athari ya kupambana na sodiamu. Kwa kuwa kiasi cha juu cha sodiamu hufanya kuhifadhi maji kuwa vigumu, ni lazima uhakikishe kwamba unachukua potasiamu kwa kiasi cha kutosha. Potasiamu huondoa maji na sodiamu nyingi kutoka kwenye chembe ili kudumisha usawaziko. Potasiamu huongeza kiwango cha kimetaboliki na pia huwezesha kiasi cha kutosha cha virutubisho na madini kutoka kwenye chakula. Isitoshe, imeonyesha matokeo mazuri pia katika kutengeneza protini za misuli. Kwa hiyo hatimaye, husaidia kufanya misuli ya mwanariadha kuwa kubwa na yenye nguvu zaidi. Ni sehemu muhimu sana ya mchanganyiko wako ambayo inahitaji kuwapo katika kiasi kamilifu. Kwa kweli, huwezi kuhatarisha kupita mipaka iliyopendekezwa, au mwili wako unaweza kuitikia kwa njia tofauti. Wanariadha huwa na jasho nyingi, na bila shaka, wanalipwa kwa ajili ya jasho! Lakini mchakato huu huwafanya wapoteze chumvi nyingi kutoka mwilini. Kwa hiyo, ili kulipia hasara ya chumvi, ni muhimu kula chumvi inayopungukiwa. Wakati mwanariadha yuko katika biashara, anahitaji kujitahidi na kutenda kikamilifu. Kwa hiyo, ni muhimu kudumisha usawa kamili wa sodiamu ili kuhakikisha kwamba sehemu za mwili wake zinafanya kazi kwa usawaziko na mfumo mzuri sana wa maambukizi ya neva. Kwa wanariadha wa kawaida, ni muhimu sana kudumisha kiasi cha damu cha nje ya seli, na hapo ndipo sodiamu inapoingia. Ni muhimu kukumbuka kwamba akiba ya sodiamu katika mwili wako ni mdogo na mara moja wao kuanza kupungua (kwa sweating, nk). Mwili wako hauwezi kuzalisha kwa nguvu zake mwenyewe. Kwa hiyo wewe ni wajibu wa kujaza tena deni hili!