Reviewing Your Requirements

There are several products in the Endura range that can be used to enhance your performance in a variety of ways. Using specific nutrients to target your training goals is the best way to improve your results. In this month’s newsletter we will be reviewing how each Endura product can help meet common training needs.

Rehydration – Keeping yourself hydrated

Many people who exercise regularly are likely to encounter dehydration during training and competition. Ensuring you are sufficiently hydrated is critical for your capacity to train, compete, and recover successfully. There is more to hydration than just water. When you sweat, you lose electrolytes, which are chemicals that are required for cells to carry the electrical impulses needed for muscle contractions. If you need to keep hydrated, use Endura Rehydration Formula.

Endura Rehydration Formula

  • A scientifically advanced rehydration drink that is designed to replace glycogen and electrolytes in optimal ratios to aid in faster re-hydration.
  • Includes patented magnesium, Meta Mag™, to help relieve muscular aches, prevent cramping and improve stamina.

Recovery – Recover well and reap the benefits

Your ability to recover between training sessions can help give you that competitive edge. Enhancing your recovery potential will allow your body to perform at its best every session. Recovery has been formulated into what is known as the “4R System”, which summarises the key components of optimal recovery.

  1. Restore electrolytes,
  2. Replenish glycogen,
  3. Reduce muscle stress, and
  4. Rebuild muscle protein.

The best Endura products to help with the 4Rs of recovery are Endura Optimizer and Endura Creatine Plus.

Endura Optimizer

  • Delivering nutrients essential in all four stages of recovery, Endura Optimizer is your first choice for faster recovery and to keep training at maximal capacity.
  • Contains a specific whey protein extract that has been pre-digested to form a complex of peptides for rapid absorption.
  • Also includes easy-to-digest carbohydrates to enhance glycogen synthesis.

Endura Creatine Plus

    Supplementation with creatine monophosphate increases the availability of creatine, which facilitates the body’s synthesis of muscle proteins. This formula includes glutamine, an important component of muscle protein. Also contains HMB, an anticatabolic nutritional factor (i.e. helps prevent the breakdown of tissue), that may help reduce the risk of exercise-induced muscle damage.

Endurance – Go faster for longer

Insufficient stamina can decrease your performance by affecting muscle action, mental function and alertness, causing you to slow down and make technical errors. There are several Endura formulas that may help improve your stamina.

Endura Max

  • Delivers high doses of magnesium, taurine and B vitamins to ensure the body has the necessary building blocks for optimal stamina.
  • Magnesium has been proven to increase physical performance in athletes. Magnesium is a vital nutrient that is involved in many important processes, including energy production.
  • Taurine is an amino acid that has shown to have a positive effect on VO2 max.

Endura CoQ10 150

  • May help you improve athletic performance, maintain stamina and endurance.
  • May assist in maintenance of normal healthy cellular energy production and vigour.
  • May assist in post-exercise recovery and reduce fatigue.

Endura Sports Gels

  • Immediate impact carbohydrates combined with slow release carbohydrates for sustained energy.
  • Use Endura Sports Gels to maintain energy reserves so you can perform better and longer.
  • Compact size to carry on you while you train or compete.

Endura N-Acetyl Carnitine

  • Taking Endura N-Acetyl Carnitine before you train may increase your performance and help increase stamina.
  • N-acetyl carnitine assists with the conversion of body fat into energy and may assist endurance and stamina.
  • Research has shown that carnitine supplementation enhances VO2 max during exercise.
  • Endura N-Acetyl Carnitine provides your body with nutrients necessary to help increase your stamina.

Muscle building – Time to bulk up

Specific nutrients may play a role in the development of muscle. Supplementing with these nutrients will help muscle repair, prevent muscle breakdown and allow for more intense training, which will influence muscle growth.

Endura Optimizer

  • Effective muscle builder with high carbohydrate content to maximise weight gain.
  • A balanced ratio of protein and carbohydrates to help enhance muscle repair and growth.

Endura Creatine Plus

  • Creatine, glutamine and HMB to prevent muscle breakdown and support muscle building.

Weight Loss – Cutting a couple of kilos

Maintaining a healthy weight is vital for maintaining health and vitality, and carrying a few extra kilos can affect your energy, as well as your performance and training. There are a few Endura products that you can use to help you cut down and tone up.

Endura Maintain

  • High protein, low carbohydrate and low fat meal replacement powder to enhance weight loss.
  • May help to build and maintain lean muscle while losing weight.
  • Whey protein isolate for fast absorption and utilisation.

Endura N-Acetyl Carnitine

  • Can help to increase energy production for weight loss programs, and may help to increase metabolic rate.
  • Assists with the conversion of fatty acids into energy.

Endura is there to support your training needs

Whatever your needs are, there are nutritional supplements that can help you achieve your training goals. To perform at your best, blood and sweat are still required, but the tears can be avoided by maximising your training with Endura products.

Tips from Allan Pitman

Tips from Allan Pitman – Triathlon Coach and Ironman Competitor

With over 25 years of triathlon experience and 41 triathlon races behind him, Alan Pitman has extensive knowledge of what it takes for an athlete to reach full potential.

Allan currently trains athletes ranging in age from 20 years old to 65 years old and has had many of these qualify for the Hawaiian Ironman race - one of the toughest triathlon races.

Allan lives by his coaching philosophy - "you cannot get an unhealthy body fit, you must get the body healthy and then become fit". This is evident as he is still competing in triathlons in the 60-64 age group and has had over 40 athletes qualify for the Hawaiian Ironman.

"In a few weeks we start the 16 week build up to the WA Ironman in Busselton. When we train for an Ironman triathlon we average 15 hours training per week for a newer athlete and up to 22 hours per week for a more experienced, more advanced athlete. We always have one complete rest day each week. So that leaves 15-22 hours of training to be fitted into 6 days. With one of these being a long training day of 7-8 hours, you’ll have 8-15 hours training to be spread over the other 5 days. That usually means the average training day will be around 3 hours.

Most of my athletes have jobs and many have family commitments on top of all of this and I’ve found that all of that training can cause athletes to become run down, cranky and lethargic. Two things I have found to help keep athletes happy and performing in training are adequate protein intake, and maintaining high mineral levels. Heavy sweat rates in fit athletes can cause the loss of important minerals and can predispose athletes to problems like cramping. I’ve found athletes taking Endura Max each day, right after the main training session, never experience cramping, and their performance levels do not drop as much as others over the heavier weeks of the program."

This is a great example of how a small amount of supplementation often is more effective than waiting for a problem to arise, then trying to correct it.