Sports: poor track chasing fat

Athletes seeking weight loss fat generally consider as enemies and try to exclude them from their diet. They are wrong!

What are fat?

Like carbohydrates, fats are involved in energy storage, but the difference in scale is enormous.

With a maximum reserve of about 400 grams of glycogen, carbohydrates provide a few hours of just while at the rate of ten pounds of fat per person, it has enough power in theory to live without food for several months . This ability to put fat in reserve goes far back in our history of hominids, at a time when he probably had to adapt to long periods of drought.

Hence the widespread perception in the general population and especially among athletes that almost never fails fat and, therefore, it is necessary to lose weight eliminate as much of the plate.

The inconveniences of fat

In fact, too heavy sport suffers from a disability comparable to wearing a backpack, especially detrimental in so-called sports "worn" (where the weight of his own body can support). In running, for example, most athletes are obsessed with hunting lipids. This is understandable when it comes to maintaining a healthy weight or compose a meal near the effort. The digestion of fatty foods is usually longer and incompatible with the muscle requirements.

But do not push too far this grotesque way of seeing things.

Fats should not be banned from food and it is certainly not making war on them that we will succeed in losing weight. Sometimes it's the opposite.

When eating too little fat dietprevents

Understand that all fats are not housed in the same boat.

Some families called essential fatty acids must be supplied in the diet. If too severe deprivation, sometimes we encounter real situations of deficiency. The body will then seek to protect themselves by blocking the oxidation process.

This reaction is the source of a well-known followers of calorie diets phenomenon: after a few weeks of good results, they observed a stagnation of weight loss and any further attempt to slimming faces a kind of barrier metabolic.

For athletes, this deadlock can occur from the loss of the first kilo simply because the body is already in a state of essential fatty acid deficiency. Paradoxically, it is advisable to reintroduce lipid portions in the diet to break the deadlock. Experts expect the equivalent of a gram per kilogram of body weight per day. However, care should be taken to emphasize the essential fatty acid sources: fish, vegetable oils, oilseeds.