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Zone AthletePro is a unique product that combines the ability of ribose to boost the building blocks for ATP formation thus helping improve recovery times with creatine’s ability to help maintain high-energy stores to replenish ATP levels during intense exercise. Ribose is a carbohydrate used by the cells to help maintain adequate levels of AMP that can be converted into ATP by AMP kinase. It is only ATP that can be used as an energy source for muscle contraction. Ribose has the ability to enhance the recovery of muscle ATP after high-intensity exercise.1 Zone AthletePro also contains creatine which influences strength, endurance and can aid in more intense work-outs.2 Creatine is used as a reservoir for high-energy phosphate molecules that can be rapidly synthesized into ATP during high intensity exercise.3 Muscles can store ATP in only very small amounts therefore a sudden surge of high intensity exercise causes an instant demand for more ATP synthesis from creatine phosphate. Taking supplemental creatine can assist in restoring ATP levels and help with athletic performance.4*
- Energy booster5
- Helps improve recovery process after exercise6
- May improve athletic performance by increasing time to reach fatigue7
- Helps the body restore ATP levels
- May increase strength endurance during high-intensity work-outs
- May assist in rapidly restoring ATP levels
- Helps improve muscle mass and strength8
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. |
Supplement Facts
AthletePro and the Zone Wellness Pyramid
References
Athletic performance depends on regulating the inflammation caused by intense exercise as well as helping to replenish internal nutrient stores. How well you perform is ultimately based on following the Zone Wellness Pyramid to optimize hormonal responses required for peak athletic performance.
Athletes require a constant controlled supply of protein to help repair the damage caused by intense exercise. Low-fat protein should be eaten in small doses throughout the day balanced by adequate levels of low-glycemic carbohydrates to boost glycogen synthesis. There are three phases of Zone nutrient timing: (1) the demand phase prior and during exercise, (2) the recovery phase that lasts up two hours after intense exercise, and (3) the regeneration phase that lasts until the next exercise period.
8 capsules per day. Ultra-Refined EPA/DHA Concentrates regulate silent inflammation caused by intense exercise. Athletes should take up to 8 capsules of OmegaRx per day to reduce production of pro-inflammatory eicosanoids. Then after 30 days, some of the OmegaRx capsules can be slowly replaced by EicoRx or EicoPro to help up-regulate even more powerful anti-inflammatory hormones. EicoPro is suggested for elite and professional athletes and EicoRx for serious recreational athletes.
2 tablespoons (30 ml). The polyphenols in SeaHealth Plus stimulate the enzyme AMP kinase that directs incoming nutrients toward regeneration of ATP levels in the muscle cells. Once ATP levels are replenished, AMP kinase is deactivated and incoming nutrients are redirected to storage (glycogen) or muscle synthesis. The polyphenols in SeaHealth Plus also regulate the genetic transcription factor NF kappa B to turn off the genes that are involved in the synthesis of inflammatory mediators as a result of intense exercise.
10 grams per day. Once you have followed the Zone Wellness Pyramid, then consider using AthletePro as a function-specific supplement. AthletePro is a formulation containing a combination of creatine and ribose. Creatine provides the additional storage capacity for high energy phosphates that can quickly replenish ATP production. Ribose also provides the building block for new ATP production.9 The body will first replenish ATP levels with incoming nutrients before any storage of those nutrients into muscle glycogen or muscle synthesis. The faster you replenish ATP levels, the more rapid the restoration of muscle glycogen stores, and the better you perform.
1 Dodd, SL, et al, “The role of ribose in human skeletal muscle metabolism.” Medical Hypotheses, 2004; 62(5):819-824.
2 Bemben, MG, et al, “Creatine supplementation and exercise performance: recent findings.” Sports Medicine, 2005; 35(2):107-125.
3 Kurosawa, Y, et al, “Creatine supplementation enhances anaerobic ATP synthesis during a single 10 second maximal handgrip exercise.” Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2003; 244(1-2):105-112.
4 Lemon, PW, “Dietary creatine supplementation and exercise performance: why inconsistent results?” Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology, 2002; 27(6):663-681.
5 Pauly, DF, et al, “The benefits of ribose in cardiovascular disease.” Medical Hypotheses, 2003; 60(2)149-151.
6 Dodd, SL, et al, “The role of ribose in human skeletal muscle metabolism.” Medical Hypotheses, 2004; 62(5):819-824.
7 Pauly, DF, et al, “D-ribose as a supplement for cardiac energy metabolism.” Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, 2000; 5(4):249-58.
8 Volek, JS, et al, “Scientific basis and practical aspects of creatine supplementation for athletes.” Nutrition, 2004; 20(7-8):609-614.
9 Pauly, DF, et al, “D-ribose as a supplement for cardiac energy metabolism.” Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, 2000; 5(4):249-58. |
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