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How to Eat Like an Athlete: The Best Foods For Performance and Recovery

The Sporting

Of course, they go phenomenally well with chocolate milk and peanut butter, which are both fantastic for athletes, too! Oatmeal Oatmeal is an impressive breakfast meal that mixes well with protein shakes. Berberine has anti-diabetic, anti-obesity and antimicrobial effects. You are what you eat. So, eat like an athlete!

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How to Sleep Like a Champion: The Science of Sleep and Athletic Performance

The Sporting

It allows your heart to rest, your cells and tissue to repair, and your immune system to fight infections. Impaired Recovery and Adaptation Poor sleeping habits can interfere with the processes that help the body heal and grow after exercise, such as muscle repair, tissue growth and hormone secretion.

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Surprising Consequences of Physical Inactivity

Skillastics

Obesity–both as a child and later as an adult–is one of the primary risks of a sedentary lifestyle. These consequences are having more far-reaching effects than we realized for our mental and physical well-being. When we don’t take care of our bodies with regular exercise, the body starts to degrade and break down the same way.

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COVID-19’s Impact on Youth Physical Activity

Spark PE

All in-person recreation was closed, including youth sports, dance, martial arts, and exercise classes. On the positive side, in the US, exercise was generally considered an “essential activity” so people could use streets and sidewalks for walking, running, and biking. Pandemic benefits of physical activity.