Sport bars

Sport bars are practical. In today’s fast way of living, where concrete shapes of meal are very rare occasion, sport bars are a great soruce of energy, they are nutritive and can be eaten very fast.

Sport bars are easy for carry. Compact, light and rich with vitamins, they can help many athletes as mobile energy, easy for transport. In shops there are bars cheaper from cereals.

Sport bars promote carbohydrates intake before training, they are excellent to increase endurance. They are opposed of “don’t eat before exercising” , that dominated through ages and had bad influence to sports performance. Energy increase connected to sport bars consuming before training is not the consequence of magic additives(chrome, amino-acids), but additional 200-300 calories. They are simply serving you better with energy than when nothing is eaten. Calories from integral crackers, bananas and rolls can also be very influentive.

For most sports bars is believed that they are fast digestive. Question is are sports bars easier digestive from standard food, it is discutabile, cause speed is dependant only of an athlete. You should simply try on training and see what will affect you and what will not. Do not try this in front of important event before you have tried it on training. Drink a lot of water with bars, or bars will create digestive problems. Sport bars have very high degree of water – so they are a lot more compact from, for example, fresh fruit.

Some bars don’t have fats at all or it is present in very small amount. That is the reason of fast digestion and creating minimal problems.

Some of the producers are telling that their bars have bigger intake of “special fats”. No researches have confirmed that taking any fat before training induces fat burning. Only advantage of low fat meals is energy maintaining. Or you can maintain energy if you take 1g of carbohydrates per your body weight during long term activity.

In many cases sport bars are expensive. If you don’t have money for elite ones, take moesli bar or raisins, they are also effective.

Sport snacks	Calories(around 30g)	Carbohydrates(around 30g)
Banana – 1- ½ pieces	20	5
Carnation Breakfast Bar	119	17
GatorBar	92	21
Growth 1000	128	17
Moesli bars(light)	110	21
Mr. Big	140	19
PowerBar	100	19
PRBar	119	12
Raisins, one cup	91	22

"Sports nutrition", Nancy Clark