Traditionally, blood testing only serves diagnostic purposes in hospitals, clinics, and other medical laboratories. However, it’s now becoming more popular for professional use, including sports. In fact, many athletes are wondering if they could use blood tests to help them improve their performance.
The good news is that, with its many usages in the medical field, it’s been determined that blood tests can help athletes specify relative biomarkers that can help them improve their performance and have an edge against their competitors.
Sarah Hammer, a US Olympics track cyclist, has been training for hours just to build her endurance in preparation for the Olympics. However, to bring her performance to the next level, she realized that she needed to look beyond what she could train daily – inside her body. That’s why she chose to have a blood test. Upon receiving her blood test, she discovered that she had a Vitamin D deficiency.
Unfortunately, this deficiency is widespread not only among athletes but also among others across the world.
For athletes, Vitamin D plays a vital role in their body as it helps increase their muscle mass, as well as their body strength. Aside from that, Vitamin D is known to improve bone health as calcium does. It also increases the number and size of muscle fibers intended for short surges of power and speed.
Through the analysis brought by undergoing a blood test, Sarah and her coach were given insights into her body status and improved her nutrition and training to amend it. As a result, Sarah Hammer was able to bring home two Silver medals at the Olympics for her remarkable performance at track cycling.
Aside from a lack of vitamin D, a blood test can also help in knowing if one has an imbalance in iron, electrolytes, and can even provide insight if a person is anemic, has an infection, and have other diseases, thus proving to be essential not only for athletes but for everyone as well. A blood test is ideal for routine check ups, so this is highly suggested for all.
A lot of information can be taken through a blood test, which includes and isn’t limited to vitamin and energy deficiency, status of the production of red blood cells, the specification of oxidative inflammation and stress, and the discerning of iron. Due to this fact, a series of blood tests can help athletes by monitoring their health and making the necessary adjustments to improve the efficiency of their training and others.
Using a monitoring and profiling strategy, a blood biomarker measurement along with circumstantial data can help the athletes avoid illnesses and sustaining injuries via making adjustments to their training loads, nutritional diet as well as recovery strategies.
With that said, blood biomarker science has become well-known for professional and elite sports. In fact, it’s reported to be evolving at a faster pace. It can provide factual data that can help support an athlete’s performance, health, and nutrition.
Some biomarkers determine if the person is ready to train by analyzing their inflammation, hormones, and protein turnover.
Just a tiny drop of blood holds a lot of information. Though a blood test might be slightly intrusive for athletes, it’s still painless and can be conducted quickly. Because of this, it’s regarded as the better choice to help the coach determine a better training routine, rehabilitation procedures, and nutritional diet habits for their athletes.
Aside from this, the following are the reasons athletes must comply with undergoing blood tests before a game:
After analyzing their blood, they may be asked with very personal follow-ups like talking about their bloodline to determine their heredity and their medical history.
Conducting blood tests can help build stronger connections, especially since athletes have to learn to trust and cooperate with their coach and other medical personnel.
Blood analysis can provide them a clearer understanding of what’s going on with their body using bite-size information that is easy to understand. When they see their results, they may start to think and link it to the cause. This leads to motivation to avoid certain habits that bring about this adverse health concern. If the athlete is determined and compliant, seeing the positive results will push them harder to achieve their most remarkable performance.
Participating in elite sports is not a simple matter; it’s actually considered a serious business. In this case, athletes must undergo quarterly testing, which can reveal the truth about their habits when they’re not training.
In fact, coaches and medical personnel can determine if an athlete is compliant through objective testing, which also reveals their commitment to the sport.
Having your blood tested and getting the results can help you determine what training routine you must focus on and what nutritional diet you must comply with to help you achieve the optimum results your body can get.
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