Main description:

Two crucial components of a healthy life are nutrition and exercise. The importance of appropriate diet, food and nutrition are extremely important to be successful in sports, and, especially, in extreme sports. Extreme sport is an activity where a participant must demonstrate both mental and physical skills. This type of activity provides an adrenaline rush to individuals who are part of the "community of extreme sportsmen."

Extreme sports provide opportunity for individuals to be active and fit with added enjoyment of partaking in a fun activity. Extreme sports in conjunction with proper nutrition helps to boost immunity and resistance against common infections. Studies have also exhibited that sports and exercise activities help in managing effective work-life balance as well.

Extreme and Rare Sports: Performance Demands, Drivers, Functional Foods, and Nutrition provides a comprehensive treatise on extreme sports emphasizing the importance of nutrition and research-driven nutraceutical supplements in injury prevention and treatment. The book presents information on the nutritional requirements of sports activities on land, in water, or with high altitude-base. It covers a wide variety of definitions, philosophies, thoughts and practices involved with structurally diverse extreme sports.

Features:

Discusses specific food and nutritional requirements in extreme sports
Provides information on the importance of functional foods, nutrition and structurally diverse phytonutrients for different sports
Features information on Olympic and diverse extreme sports
Details the importance of hydration and use of gelatin; skeletal muscle damage and recovery from eccentric contractions; and information on dietary supplements and antioxidants
Presents analysis on growth, marketing, techniques, and future of extreme sports

Contents:

Contents

Preface .................................................................................................xi

Editors .................................................................................................xv

Contributors .......................................................................................xvii

Section I Introduction to Extreme Sports

Chapter 1 Extreme Endurance Sports - Why Not Just Sports? ..................3

David Townes

Section II Extreme Sports: Swimming,

Contact, and Combat Sports and

Factors Affecting Extreme Sports

Chapter 2 Open-Water Swimming .................................................................. 11

Paola Zamparo, Roberto Baldassarre, Marco Bonifazi, and

Maria Francesca Piacentini

Chapter 3 Contact and Combat Sports: Sports Nutrition Benefits ..................... 35

Jonathan Mike

Chapter 4 An Overview on the Nutritional Requirements for Athletes

Engaged in Extreme Endurance Events ............................................................49

Chad Kerksick

Section III Overview of Food and

Nutritional Requirements

for Diverse Extreme Sports

Chapter 5 Functional Foods: Role in Endurance Sports ........................................ 73

Kamesh Venkatakrishnan and Chin-Kun Wang

Chapter 6 Prosthetics and Limb Health in Extreme Sports .................................. 115

Sashwati Roy, Shomita S. Mathew-Steiner, and Chandan K. Sen

Chapter 7 Nutritional Requirements in Extreme Sports ......................................127

Matthew Butawan, Jade L. Caldwell, and Richard J. Bloomer

Chapter 8 Dietary Supplements for Use in Extreme Sports ...................................................................................................................... 143

Nicholas J.G. Smith, Matthew Butawan, and Richard J. Bloomer

Chapter 9 Intake of Selected Nutrients and Some Morphological and

Biochemical Blood Parameters of Professional Athletes ..................................... 177

Estera Nowacka-Polaczyk, Teresa Leszczynska, Aneta Kopec,

and Jerzy Zawistowski

Chapter 10 Testosterone in Sport: The Androgen Response to Extreme

Endurance Exercise .......................................................................................... 193

Jake Shelley, Christopher Howe, Hannah Jayne Moir, and

Andrea Petroczi

Chapter 11 Physical Performance and Antioxidants ........................................... 205

Wataru Aoi and Yuji Naito

Section IV Olympic Sports and Evolution

of Current Extreme Sports

Chapter 12 Greek Olympic Sports: The Beginning of Modern

Extreme Sports .................................................................................................... 219

Sourya Datta and Debasis Bagchi

Chapter 13 An Overview of Extreme Sports ........................................................... 237

Sourya Datta and Debasis Bagchi

Chapter 14 An Overview of Challenging Mountain and High Altitude Sports ............. 259

Sourya Datta and Debasis Bagchi

Chapter 15 Structurally Diverse Water Sports in Extreme Conditions .........................277

Sourya Datta and Debasis Bagchi

Section V Importance of Hydration

and Use of Gelatin

Chapter 16 An Overview on the Beneficial Effects of Hydration ..................................297

Douglas S. Kalman

Chapter 17 Versatile Use of Gelatin in Functional Food and Nutraceuticals....................... 311

Douglas S. Kalman

Section VI Impact of Eccentric Exercise

on Muscle and Adaption

of Body and Muscles

Chapter 18 Skeletal Muscle Damage and Recovery from Eccentric

Contractions......................................................................................................... 321

Eisuke Ochi and Yosuke Tsuchiya

Section VII Growth, Marketing Techniques,

and Future of Extreme Sports

Chapter 19 Extreme Sports: Growth Prospect, Marketing Potential, and

Opportunities: A Commentary........................................................................... 341

Sourya Datta and Debasis Bagchi

Index .......................................................................................................... 353