Extreme and Rare Sports: Performance Demands, Drivers, Functional Foods, and Nutrition

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 sportsProvides information on the importance of functional foods, nutrition and structurally diverse phytonutrients for different sports Features information on Olympic and diverse extreme sportsDetails 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

ContentsPreface …………………………………………………………………………………….xiEditors …………………………………………………………………………………….xvContributors …………………………………………………………..……………….xviiSection I Introduction to Extreme SportsChapter 1 Extreme Endurance Sports – Why Not Just Sports? ..…………….3David TownesSection II Extreme Sports: Swimming,Contact, and Combat Sports andFactors Affecting Extreme SportsChapter 2 Open-Water Swimming ……………………………………………………..…. 11Paola Zamparo, Roberto Baldassarre, Marco Bonifazi, andMaria Francesca PiacentiniChapter 3 Contact and Combat Sports: Sports Nutrition Benefits …………..……. 35Jonathan MikeChapter 4 An Overview on the Nutritional Requirements for AthletesEngaged in Extreme Endurance Events ……………………………………..…………….49Chad KerksickSection III Overview of Food andNutritional Requirementsfor Diverse Extreme SportsChapter 5 Functional Foods: Role in Endurance Sports …………………………………. 73Kamesh Venkatakrishnan and Chin-Kun WangChapter 6 Prosthetics and Limb Health in Extreme Sports ……………………………. 115Sashwati Roy, Shomita S. Mathew-Steiner, and Chandan K. SenChapter 7 Nutritional Requirements in Extreme Sports ………………………………..127Matthew Butawan, Jade L. Caldwell, and Richard J. BloomerChapter 8 Dietary Supplements for Use in Extreme Sports ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 143Nicholas J.G. Smith, Matthew Butawan, and Richard J. BloomerChapter 9 Intake of Selected Nutrients and Some Morphological andBiochemical Blood Parameters of Professional Athletes ………………………………. 177Estera Nowacka-Polaczyk, Teresa Leszczynska, Aneta Kopec,and Jerzy ZawistowskiChapter 10 Testosterone in Sport: The Androgen Response to ExtremeEndurance Exercise ……………………………………………………………………………… 193Jake Shelley, Christopher Howe, Hannah Jayne Moir, andAndrea PetrócziChapter 11 Physical Performance and Antioxidants ……………………………………. 205Wataru Aoi and Yuji NaitoSection IV Olympic Sports and Evolutionof Current Extreme SportsChapter 12 Greek Olympic Sports: The Beginning of ModernExtreme Sports ………………………………………………………………………………………. 219Sourya Datta and Debasis BagchiChapter 13 An Overview of Extreme Sports ……………………………………………….…. 237Sourya Datta and Debasis BagchiChapter 14 An Overview of Challenging Mountain and High Altitude Sports …………. 259Sourya Datta and Debasis BagchiChapter 15 Structurally Diverse Water Sports in Extreme Conditions …………………….277Sourya Datta and Debasis BagchiSection V Importance of Hydrationand Use of GelatinChapter 16 An Overview on the Beneficial Effects of Hydration …………………………….297Douglas S. KalmanChapter 17 Versatile Use of Gelatin in Functional Food and Nutraceuticals………………..... 311Douglas S. KalmanSection VI Impact of Eccentric Exerciseon Muscle and Adaptionof Body and MusclesChapter 18 Skeletal Muscle Damage and Recovery from EccentricContractions......................................................................................................... 321Eisuke Ochi and Yosuke TsuchiyaSection VII Growth, Marketing Techniques,and Future of Extreme SportsChapter 19 Extreme Sports: Growth Prospect, Marketing Potential, andOpportunities: A Commentary........................................................................... 341Sourya Datta and Debasis BagchiIndex ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 353