Any Particular Foods:Stamina

[Nikhil]

Hey, once again I have come to ask a stamina question.

I was wondering, are they any special types of food that helps to add stamina/stay fit for bhangra.
The other day, I heard someone say "Aalo Keyley(Banana) Kao, Naley Stamina Kaado",

So then I starting wondering If it was actaully true.I know not eating things like Mckie Ds help.

Thhank you.

umm... try this milkshake out, take a blender, put in 1 raw egg, some milk, a spoon of peanut butter, a small portion of banana, a couple of slices of oranges, and a little bit of sugar for taste. its good to help you keep energy and you can also drink it to try to build mussel mass.

Hey Guys.

I was reading some of the things posted and I just wanted to correct some misperceptions of what fruits do. Fruits and vegetables are chock full of vitamins and minerals that maintain basic functions. They do NOT contribute to complex things like the concept of stamina, endurance, power (which are performance related topics, not resting or Basal conditions).

Banana's will not contribute to stamina whatsoever. They are full of potassium and that will help prevent hypertension as well as break down of bones and vision. Because potassium is an electrolyte just like sodium, they play off of one another to create a balance that is necessary for resting membrane potential; electrolytes are necessary to set up action potentials (nerve responses). Bananas ensure that you don't "dry out" when you have diarrhea, and they make sure your stool is softened enough to avoid constipation.

Manmeet, that milkshake is full of protein, cholesterol, calcium, natural sugars and some very important vitamins and minerals, but there are a couple of major red flags in terms of preparation!
First off, you shouldn't really consume raw egg because you can get salmonella:
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/foodreview/jan1997/jan97d.pdf
Secondly, all that protein is contributing to alot of calories, and it is going to do two things, depending on your activity level:
(1) If you are not doing any additional cardiovascular training, it will sit in your system and contribute to fat mass accumulation.
OR (2) If you are weight training very rigorously, it will contribute to muscle mass reparation and lean tissue accumulation.
This milkshake, while it may seem to be helping you with stamina, actually is not doing anything positive for you in that regard.

I would suggest a lot of the diets recommended by some BTFers, in which you eat a lot of complex carbohydrates, but in smaller proportions and more frequently throughout the day. This is the lifestyle for European countries. If you look at this graph found in the Economics section of NY Times, you will see that this sort of a recommended behavior of food intake, active lifestyle and exercise contributes to lower BMI (indication of obesity/overweight condition). The implications are that:
- The lower your BMI, the more healthy your body weight is in relation to your height,
- The lower your body weight, the more activity you do
-*** The more activity you do, the more stamina you have***
- The more stamina you have, the smarter you are about eating correctly

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/obesity-and-the-fastness-of-food/

I hope this helps!

 

[Karandeep]

Thanx Nikhil. That Helped.

 

[- Raja -]

eat kalay sholay..Guru Gobind Singh Ji use to feed it to his horses before battle

 

[kinnell]

I was reading some of the things posted and I just wanted to correct some misperceptions of what fruits do. Fruits and vegetables are chock full of vitamins and minerals that maintain basic functions. They do NOT contribute to complex things like the concept of stamina, endurance, power (which are performance related topics, not resting or Basal conditions).

I was just going to post that. I actually LOLed on a lot of the stuff posted here and there are, as Nikhil pointed out, a lot of misconceptions.

There is no magic pill. There is no magic fruit that will make you stronger, faster or more durable. Eating healthy is 80% of the battle but eating healthy is NOT "not eating junk food". It involves eating a variety of different foods that have nutrients and serve different functions in the human body so that you can function at peak capacity.

Just a fun fact about bananas, BTW. Did you know that excess amounts of potassium in the blood stream can STOP your heart? Essentially, if you ate a truckload of bananas, you could stop your heart!

Back to the nutrition discussion, eat everything in moderation. Even foods like eggs, nuts, avocados, fish, which are all considered healthy "super-foods" need to be consumed in moderation. Eating healthy is not finding particular foods that are great for you and just eating those. Eating healthy is eating variety of healthy foods in moderation.

In the past, foods high in fats have been looked down on. Eating a low-fat diet, recent research has shown, is actually detrimental. (For example, get Omega-3 pills if you're a vegetarian like me) In addition, make sure you get a good ratio of protein, carbs AND fats. Nutrients/Vitamins are necessary to reach peak efficiency!

In regards to stamina, stamina, in my understanding, is achieved when your muscles become adept at what you're doing. For example, your muscles may tire after doing 30 minutes of bhangra practice. But if you continue doing 30 minutes of bhangra every day, your muscles will adapt, possibly becoming bigger and/or toned (and definitely stronger). Thus, it will feel easier to do complete that 30 minute bhangra practice. Your muscles will NOT be able to adapt however, if you do not provide the nutrition it needs to do so.

IN CONCLUSION, remember the following in general.

1) Do not play the causation game. Just because you eat bananas everyday and you feel like you have more stamina now, bananas are NOT the sole reason and they never will be.

2) Nutrition (70%) + Training (30%) = FTW

3) Vary it up too! (In nutrition AND training)

 

[Nikhil]

In regards to stamina, stamina, in my understanding, is achieved when your muscles become adept at what you're doing. For example, your muscles may tire after doing 30 minutes of bhangra practice. But if you continue doing 30 minutes of bhangra every day, your muscles will adapt, possibly becoming bigger and/or toned (and definitely stronger). Thus, it will feel easier to do complete that 30 minute bhangra practice. Your muscles will NOT be able to adapt however, if you do not provide the nutrition it needs to do so.

Bhangra practice repeated on a daily basis is like cardiovascular work, although its moreso anaerobic than running. You won't build strength, but you'll stimulate more mitochondria and oxidative enzymes improving endurance. About hypertrophy, there is a very small correlation between endurance work and exercises to get you bigger. Some people MAY develop larger quads and lower limb muscles simply because the philosophies of local muscular endurance and hypertrophy include short rests between a massive number intervals of exercise.

Here's what I mean:
If I did 50 betka in 2 minutes, followed by a thirty second rest for 30 minutes everyday, as you said Kinnell, I would be allowing my muscles to adapt to the shear stress caused by repetitive concentric and eccentric squats. My quadriceps and hamstrings would develop larger vessels from greater amounts of nitric oxide "dump off", since that's a vasodilator. So I would in essence get big at the same time as my muscular mitochondria multiplying at an extreme rate. You're bound to hit the roof though, in terms of seeing an exponential increase in endurance and/or size; unless you make your set even harder, you're going to keep your stamina level stagnant.

If you want strength, try doing betka with a 20-30 pound vest on...you will cry.

 

[terabaap]

lol. stamina and nutrition are 2 different things.
On a side note, Coke helps.
The powdered kind.

 

[Karan V]

eat kalay sholay..Guru Gobind Singh Ji use to feed it to his horses before battle

+10

 

[Saab]

Going on what Nikhil said...I believe its the reason why people drink Gatorade. The electrolytes it replaces after you have done physical activity are crucial to maintain basic functions within the body(hence why athletes take it during games). Itll help keep you going through the games, but it doesnt build on your performance, just keeps you level during the game. Any people who think its boosting their performance arent taking into their account that if you are competing against others that they would face a much more rapid decline than you, and if comparing yourself, your body isnt declining as precipitously as it would have. Furthermore, its also a reason why drinking gatorade during the day just for the hell of it doesnt boost your performance, just maintains it. If anything, it would probably help you do the betka routine Nikhil described above better and longer, and thus from those subsequent repetitions build stamina.

 

[aman dhaliwal]

choley is one of the main (karraks)(foods) for horses in punjab for strength and for athletes.......but ya in my practices they made us drink a kilo of milk for each person and 2 bananas......i think it hella helped lolz

 

[rajkaran]

Banana's will not contribute to stamina whatsoever. They are full of potassium and that will help prevent hypertension as well as break down of bones and vision. Because potassium is an electrolyte just like sodium, they play off of one another to create a balance that is necessary for resting membrane potential; electrolytes are necessary to set up action potentials (nerve responses). Bananas ensure that you don't "dry out" when you have diarrhea, and they make sure your stool is softened enough to avoid constipation.

omg...Action Potentials actually have taken over my life...they're in EVERY damn test I take.

 

[terabaap]

QUICK ! WHY DOES HYPERPOLARIZATION OCCUR?!?!?!
ANYBODY?!?!

 

[COMTONDAJATT]

QUICK ! WHY DOES HYPERPOLARIZATION OCCUR?!?!?!
ANYBODY?!?!

influx of Cl or exflux of K+!!!!

i wonder how a preformer would do with creatine in them. it works for strength training for longer and more endurance in the workouts. it could probably help in bhangra for muscular stamina. hmmmmm.

 

[Sarang_S...]

Just learn a SGPD routine and keep doing it
Trust me you'll get stamina lol

 

[rgoel09]

What seems to be missing from what everyone has been pointing out is starting a weight lifting regimen. Yes doing a lot of bhangra will increase your endurance, but by adding in a BALANCED lifting regimen will do wonders. Do not only work your legs thinking that will do it, make sure to keep it balanced and you will see an increase in your bhangra stamina. And COMTONDAJATT, creatine would definitely help. It helps you to work your muscles harder and recover faster.

 

[terabaap]

creatine wouldn't do much in the way of stamina.

 

[HarmanG]

eat kalay sholay..Guru Gobind Singh Ji use to feed it to his horses before battle

+10

+100 lol i heard it actualli helpss

 

[Karandeep]

:O , thats interesting

 

[gabroo_punjabi]

eat bukrey dey khrodey(tuttay) lol , it helps you with stamina and energy

 

[COMTONDAJATT]

What seems to be missing from what everyone has been pointing out is starting a weight lifting regimen. Yes doing a lot of bhangra will increase your endurance, but by adding in a BALANCED lifting regimen will do wonders. Do not only work your legs thinking that will do it, make sure to keep it balanced and you will see an increase in your bhangra stamina. And COMTONDAJATT, creatine would definitely help. It helps you to work your muscles harder and recover faster.

Yea you are right. I use creatine for my lifting and it definitely helped me get through some walls I hit. Lifting 3x a week will help any kind of athlete, imagine tall gabroos with muscles so bug the phumman explode off, that would be tight.

 

[KaraN]

Yea you are right. I use creatine for my lifting and it definitely helped me get through some walls I hit. Lifting 3x a week will help any kind of athlete, imagine tall gabroos with muscles so bug the phumman explode off, that would be tight.

LOL whats next bhangra super heroes loll