Modern state and prospects of the development of production of specialized foodstuffs for athletes

Abstract

Nutrition is a very important element in the training of athletes - both professionals and amateurs. Sports exercises accompanied by significant energy expenditure, hypoxia, large neuro-psychological stress that caused the body's increased need for energy and certain nutrients. It is almost impossible to provide athletes' needs through the regular diet, so during the training cycle they used specifically developed nutrition' systems. Modern methodology of athletes' nutrition makes provisions of using special diet, including not only conventional, but also fortified foods and dietary supplements, to compensate the comparative deficiency of any essential body' substratum and biologically active substances. Analytical researches indicate that lately generally in Russia, there is a tendency of increasing the number of people engaged in physical culture and sports, who needs specialized foodstuffs. Nowadays food and beverages intended for athletes of different specializations, widely represented in the Russian market, are mainly imported; the percentage of domestic specialized foodstuffs and beverages is small. In the last decade, native scientists developed a wide range of specialized foodstuffs for sportsmen's nutrition, that creates the prospect of the development of production of Russian foodstuffs with assured quality in order to achieve the best results in professional and amateur sports.