What are the skills required for an endurance athlete? And how to improve the cyclist's body composition to get the most out of performance? Dr. Carmine Orlandi, sports nutritionist of our team of experts, tells us about it.

That of the substances to be used to improve sports performance is not a recent problem: for centuries man has been in search of the miraculous substance to enhance performance. Thus WADA was born, to coordinate the fight against doping in sport. Let's find out together what it is and the main prohibited substances!

The design of nutritional strategies in rugby must follow the characterization of a situational team sport where players are expected to be physically competent in a range of areas including aerobic fitness, strength, speed and power. Nutrition and supplementation therefore play a fundamental role for the energy aspect and for meeting the specific needs of these athletes.

In a sedentary person, the daily water change is about 2.5 liters (balance between entries and exits), but the liquids that actually circulate in the entire digestive system amount to a total of about 9 liters. In an athlete the quantities vary considerably, due to an increase in outputs, mainly in the form of sweat. These losses must be adequately offset by an increase in revenue.

Plicometry and the unspoken truths

Can creatine supplementation really improve athletic performance? After years of studies, it can be said that creatine supplementation can accompany and modify metabolic adaptations following exercise.

The evaluation of body composition is now a routine practice in the history of the athlete, as well as fundamental parameters in some disciplines (e.g. combat sports).Despite the relatively simple measurement of the skin fold, which makes this method very popular, there are however a number of technical limitations that must be considered when using this technique: let’s see them together.

Echinacea is a perennial herbaceous plant that includes at least 9 species and is known for its healing, anti-infective and strengthening of the immune system. The subject, in reality, is much more complex than it may appear and be also very interesting, it is worth deepening it together.

Probiotic therapy, following the specific warnings, can be a natural and effective approach to restore the integrity of the intestinal barrier and eubiosis, resulting in better absorption of nutrients and better general health, including the reduction of incidence and severity of intestinal diseases.