Carbohydrates are the energy substrate most closely related to sports performance, both as fuel for skeletal muscle contraction and for the proper functioning of the central nervous system through different cognitive tasks and motor skills.
This product contains Maltodextrin (polymer formed by glucose).
It is very important to maintain the carbohydrate deposits in the body in an adequate state in order to optimize the performance of endurance exercise and, therefore, it is common for athletes to consume carbohydrates before, during and after this sport.
Thus, consuming carbohydrates during sports practice increases exercise performance and allows prolonging the time until exhaustion. On the other hand, we can differentiate carbohydrates according to their absorption speed, so that we find fast absorption and slow absorption carbohydrates. According to scientific evidence, most of the carbohydrates that should be provided during endurance exercise should come from fast-absorbing carbohydrates, where we find maltodextrin, whose use can be up to 60g/h or 1g/min.
This type of carbohydrate with a high glycemic index is very important in the practice of endurance exercise due to its capacity to increase blood glucose quickly after ingestion, which will facilitate the replenishment of glycogen deposits after training and, during training, allows maintaining glycemia during long duration exercises, avoiding the onset of fatigue.
Maltodextrin is an oligosaccharide composed of glucose polymers and obtained by the partial hydrolysis of corn, potato, wheat or rye starch. The particularity of maltodextrin is that, although it is a complex carbohydrate, it has a lower osmolarity than simple carbohydrates, which accelerates gastric emptying, thus reducing the problems that simple carbohydrates can cause. On the other hand, it has a high solubility and a low sweetening power.
On the other hand, it is important to know that the fact of using different types of carbohydrates will allow us to facilitate gastric emptying and fluid absorption by using different transport routes in the body, which is essential in prolonged exercise, so that maltodextrin becomes a very useful and practical option to combine with others with fructose, slow absorption, in a ratio of, approximately 2:1, and thus optimize the use of carbohydrates as energy substrate for performance enhancement during prolonged exercise.
Adapt the dose to your daily energy and nutritional needs. However, the consumption of 30 to 90 g of carbohydrates during exercise has been shown to have an ergogenic effect in medium and long duration sports.
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Graduado en ciencias de la actividad física y del deporte, máster en alto rendimiento deportivo, Dr. Internacional Cum Laude en ciencias del deporte aplicadas a la fisiología neuromuscular, investigador internacional y docente universitario.
Investigador, entrenador y dietista. Graduado en ciencias de la actividad física y del deporte, máster en alto rendimiento deportivo, Dr. Internacional Cum Laude en ciencias del deporte aplicadas a las ayudas ergogénicas nutricionales, investigador internacional y docente universitario.
Graduada en biotecnología, graduada en nutrición humana y dietética, máster en inmunología avanzada y doctora en bioquímica, biología molecular y biomedicina. Nutricionista, atleta, docente universitaria y colaboradora en investigación.
Nutricionista en ciclismo de élite y licenciado en farmacia. Nutricionista del Movistar Team (UCI PRO TOUR), graduado en farmacia, graduado en nutrición humana y dietética, máster en alto rendimiento por el cómite olímpico internacional, antropometrista internacional nivel 2.
