Energy Drinks And Athletic Performance

Task 3 –Describe (P4), explain (M2) or analyse (D1) the importance of energy balance and their effect on sports performance.

• Determine under what conditions each of the “energy drinks” might be useful to the consumer.

Once you consume an energy drink your whole body is affected including you brain, your bloodstream, your heart, and your skin. Energy drinks are really bad for you if you drink it a lot; they say it could affect how you work out because energy drinks lead to sugar crashes. You don’t want to work out and in the middle of your work out, you get tired all of the sudden, if you drink one after you work out you would just get tired and you will start to crash. My opinion you should not drink energy drinks at all while working out. The things they put in it, it’s just not worth drinking it during your work out

Determine under what conditions each of the energy drinks might be useful to the consumer and relate this understanding to the biochemical process of cellular respiration. The Case After spending grades 9-11 working at the Sports Desk of the Weston TV Club, Breanna found the job of her dreams as a writer for Westons Running Magazine.The job was fantastic During high school, Breanna excelled in cross country, and had been a consistent runner, participating in local races and those assigned to her for her job at the school TV club. For her last assignment, she had run in and reported about the annual CN Tower Climb, and it was a blast all the way to the top Marketing Claims Next, Breanna perused the marketing claims for each drink

In recent studies sports drinks like Gatorade, PowerAde, and Muscle Milk have been proven to be not fully truthful about their nutritional value and the impact it will have on some people.

Written by Kathleen Woolf and Amber R. Brown, the article “Energy Drinks: What’s the Buzz”, informs the reader about basic information considering energy drinks. It introduces the subject by stating American’s new desire to consume energy drinks. Targeting mainly teenagers and young adults, energy drinks are known to increase mental energy and performance. As defined in the article, energy drinks are “beverages that contain sugar, caffeine and other stimulants.” Caffeine is said to be the dominant ingredient in energy drinks with ranges of 80 milligrams (mg) up to 300mg. Additionally, these energy drinks also contain several other stimulants including Guarana. Guarana is an herbal stimulant which enhances the effects of caffeine, raising the

The world’s most popular drug is legal, inexpensive, and believed to amplify workouts. It supposedly motivates athletes and helps them stay alert and focused while also boosting physical endurance by twenty to fifty percent. This stimulant is found naturally in sixty-three plants and is consumed by eighty percent of Americans. This white, bitter, crystalline substance is known as caffeine, and is commonly consumed in efforts to enhance athletic ability (http://gopher1.bu.edu/COHIS/substance/caffeine/about.htm).

Staying hydrated is one of the most important parts of physical activity. In Clinics of Sports Medicine, it explains that “Maintenance of water and electrolyte balance is important for sustaining cognitive and physical performance. Dehydration degrades morale and desire to work. Body water deficits of as little as 2% body weight can impair physical performance. Water deficits of 5% to 7% body weight are associated with headaches, dizziness, and apathy” (Latzka, Montain 1). To prevent dehydration and its effects a medical team created Gatorade for the University of Florida’s football team in 1965. Since then, there has been a large market of beverages to hydrate athletes and improve performance. In Sports and Energy Drinks: Answers for

The reason for this lab/research study is to know the physical effects on water vs Gatorade in exercise in a limited period of time. There are 2 subjects that are always active ,one male (19 years old) and the other female (35 years old). Both of the subjects were asked to a 90 minute workout session which included walking. During one session, the male was consisted drinking a 32 ounce fierce grape Gatorade and the female was drinking 32 ounces of water. There was a big differences in “peak rating of perceived exertion”. By the data taken it was suggested that

Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience energy drinks drunken excessively are bad for your health

In the article the author successfully supports the claim made that energy drinks make promises of giving you an edge, but the experts so there is little proof to support that claim. Researchers claimed there is a lack of information to backup if energy drinks do what they claim to be able to do. Secondly, researcher are unsure of what the ingredients actually do in energy drinks. Lastly, they are popular in Europe, before coming to the U.S, and even the studies in Europe were not helpful for stating claims.

The experimenter has shown that certain energy drinks affect athletes in different ways like weight loss and concentration. In overall energy drinks do affect athletes. Energy drinks can sometimes be good for the human body while some can not, the ones that can are the ones containing good stable levels and amounts of vitamin B while the ones who do not contain high levels and amounts of caffeine and sugar. Taurine is a naturally occurring amino acid that plays many fundamental roles. If you’re a good healthy individual, you will most likely produce the taurine your body needs to stay level on its own. An average energy drink will have about 1,000 milligrams of taurine per 8-ounce serving, which is considered safe and okay by

This project involves comparing the differences between sports energy drink within the country and outside of the country. The goal of the project is determining whether 30 random sports drinks have more sugar than the other 30 sports drinks based off of location in the world. The main results of the project appeared to the examiner that when using stem and leaf plots, relative tables, histograms, boxplots, skewness, that when bringing all of this information together there’s proof of deciding which location adds more grams of sugar per serving in one bottle of a sports energy drink.

Sylvia Nena (2011) also stated that “Manufactures of these products claim to increase energy, endurance, burn fat and improve athletic performance. According to experts, many of them state that it is untrue that energy drink helps to increase energy. This is due to drugs that can be found in the drinks such as caffeine. Caffeine with high levels of consuming can cause some problems to the human body like palpitations, hypertension, vomiting, convulsions and even worst heart failure which can lead to death. Roland Griffiths (2012) a caffeine specialist said that high caffeine in use by young people can cause a cycle of rushes and crashes that can add “a degree of variance to their moods and psychological well-being that they don’t really need. Joao Breda(2014) from WHO’s Europe wrote that caffeine has a proven negative effect on

Energy drinks are soda-like beverages that are chemically designed to boost your energy, performance, and increase stamina. Most of these drinks contain caffeine, sugar and many other ingredients including taurine, guarana, and ginseng. These products are generally marketed toward teanagers, students, athletes, and active people in general. As the popularity of these drinks increases so does the amount of reports they are receiving about the dangers of drinking these caffeinated substances. Energy drinks can be dangerous; therefore knowing the how they work and what is in them is key to consuming such substances safely.