So, how does improved mitochondrial function make you a better athlete?
If you've read the blog up to this point you should know a bit about mitochondria and start to understand the potential positive impact on athletic performance. Now let's take a few steps back and take a look at the bigger picture. How does improving your mitochondrial function make you a better athlete?
First let's think about PEDs (performance enhancing drugs). These are all illegal, banned by many sports federations, and have many negative side effects. However, they are widely seen as the top standard in terms of effectively increasing athletic performance. But what is the mechanism through which they enhance performance? They have a multitude of potential benefits and one of the most significant, if not the most significant is their ability to shorten post exercise recovery.
What PEDs allow athletes to do is train:
- more often,
- at higher relative intensities, and
- with more volume, because they can recover from their training faster.
Where a drug free athlete may need 3 days to recover from a training session, an athlete taking PEDs may only need 2. This shortened recovery period allows enhanced training and can increase the body's overall adaptive response to the greater training intensity. This is a big advantage.
I am a drug free athlete and I had never heard of improved mitochondrial function as an area of focus to help improve my overall performance. I have tried so many different variations of over the counter supplements and my conclusion is that the entire sports supplement industry is stuck in an old paradigm. For me the status quo was not helping.
I was one of the first athletes to try Mitronite. My first impressions were that my recovery went through the roof. I felt fresh all the time. All of this extra "freshness," I reinvested into extra training and my results took off. You can click here to check out my results.
I now know that improving mitochondrial function leads to many other benefits, such as increasing aerobic threshold and delaying time to fatigue or time to exhaustion and I certainly experienced those also, but even with the most intense workouts, the post exercise soreness became a non factor. I was able to lift heavy 175 times out of a 187 day training cycle, added 85 pounds to my deadlift, 115 pounds to my squat, and 35 pounds on my bench. It was the best training of my life.
I have never taken any PEDs, and now I feel I will never have to. My advice to every high performance athlete is to learn everything you can about improved mitochondrial function. Do it right now. It complements and adds to everything you are already doing. It may be the most significant addition to the your performance improvement regime. Naturally, improving your mitochondrial function supports:
- increased training frequency
- higher relative training intensity, and
- increased training volume per session
More volume and sport practice, so long as you can sufficiently recover from it, makes a better athlete.
This post was written by power lifter Ezekiel Fecher. You can check him out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ezekielfecher/ or @ezekielfecher
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