The “lactic acid burn” is a burning sensation that comes from acid buildup in your muscles which is produced when they ferment glucose for energy. If you have experienced working out with weights, then you have already experienced the so-called “Lactic acid burn”. It becomes a problem of the past when PEOs are properly used.
The common sports drink is 6-10% carbohydrate, plus electrolyte minerals. However, a combination of living food like fresh fruit (NOT juice), protein plus PEOs could give you a substantial advantage over the traditional sports drink, with an increased rate of glucose clearance from the blood. This will surely lower blood glucose level and increase availability of carbohydrates to the working muscle. In 2011, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research shows that this combination improves performance by 8% compared to glucose only, despite the fact that the combination used contained 50% less carbohydrates and 30% fewer calories.
The muscle’s #1 fuel when training is glucose. Glucose is not the body’s preferred energy source; fatty acids are. Basic Medical Biochemistry – A Clinical Approach, pages: 29, 145, 203, 272, 357. However, if you are taking marine oil / fish oil supplements instead of PEOs, they help decrease fuel production as well as STOP fuel delivery of glucose to your muscles during exercise during exercise. This effect of fish oil tremendously hurt any athlete’s training by effectively “short-circuiting” their training. The decrease in available glucose energy could even be worse in an elite athlete such as a bodybuilder or professional athlete.
So when you are taking fish oil and is easily exhausted during training, this is the reason why. There is a simple solution to that—STOP taking fish oil and replace it with fuel rich PEOs.
Mike Maunu – Founder
Oxygen4Life.com
