There's a new trend among cyclists and endurance athletes to find supplements that are all natural but effective in their use. While the mainstream products like Powerbar and Clif Bars and gels are useful during intensive workout and competition, the body needs support before and after such intense time periods to reestablish and maintain healthy inter-cellular connections, rebuild muscle fibers and strengthen the immune system.
Flax seeds, chia seeds are great supplements with breakfast to supply the body with necessary amino acids, minerals and vitamins. But these seeds are difficult to carry along for a ride. Sports bars and gels are good supplements to supply the body with carbohydrates but they are not healthy as snacks or food during off workout time food supplements (because of the high sugar content and the highly processed ingredients).
It is hard to find a supplement that is specific to endurance athletes but still natural and healthy. Concap, a Belgian nutrition maker, developed a formula that is a direct extract of the coffee bush called Coffea Arabica. This plant, best known for the beans used to make coffee, has a very high content of antioxidants, zinc, copper, and essential B vitamins. Concap's patented method of extracting these valuable ingredients from the plant use no chemicals whatsoever, so there is no loss of efficacy. Concap's natural effect not oly is useful for athletes but it also promotes general health and is used to help patients with heart problems, diabetes and other ailments. It is a natural energy and immune booster everyone could benefit from. Concap has been approved by the FDA and WADA (World Antidoping Agency) as safe nutrition supplement.
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How do we know it works? Many world champion cyclits including Zdenek Stybar (Cyclocross) and Jose Hermida (mountainbike) have benefited from their use. Concap also sponsors the Katusha pro cycling team. More information about athlete sponsorship can be found on Concap's website.
Where to get Concap? It is only recently available in the US for purchase. Natural Endurance Shop sells it on-line. Putting the body under the stresses of endurance sports may not be a natural thing to do but nature has provided us with support so why not use that instead of laboratory produced chemicals?
