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After three days of total rest, start rehab: Heat your elbow or wrist area for 10 minutes, then perform stretching and strengthening exercises for your elbow, wrist and shoulders. Follow with a five minute ice massage and a deep-friction massage, rubbing the painful area firmly with your index and middle fingers for four minutes.Get your tennis or golf grip assessed by a pro.

All of these antioxidants work together to form a powerful defense system to support good health. Antioxidants can actually capture or neutralize free radicals and therefore stop the chain reaction. One of the most powerful classes of antioxidants is carotenoids. Carotenoid antioxidants break the chain reactions of free radical damage.

Eat more carbohydrates during exercise/competition lasting more than an hour to replenish energy and delay fatigue. Proteins come in meats, fish, poultry, eggs, beans, nuts, dairy products and other foods, and should provide approximately 12 to15 percent of daily calories. Proteins give your body power to build new tissues and fluids, among other functions.

Strengthen your rotator cuff by performing internal and external shoulder rotations. (You'll need a trainer to show you how to do these correctly.) Have a coach or trainer assess your weightlifting, swimming or tennis technique.

Water is the most important factor in sports nutrition. It makes up about 60 percent of body weight and is involved in almost every bodily process. Your body cannot make or store water, so you must replace what you eliminate (i.e., urine, sweat). Everyone should drink at least two quarts (eight cups) of water each day, and athletes need more.

Your workout must be identical to the upcoming event to deplete the right muscles. Then eat a high-carbohydrate diet (70-80 percent carbs, 10 to15 percent fat, 10-15 percent protein) and do little or no exercise starting three days before your event.

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(Use weights you can strap around your feet rather than dumbbells.) Sit on a tall chair with your feet dangling, then point your toes up without lifting your thighs. Perform three sets of 15 reps.

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For shin splints symptoms, you feel pain down the front of your leg when you run, walk or point your toes.You're running on a harder surface than before, or you've increased your mileage too quickly. The membrane that surrounds your shin bone may be pulling away from the bone, or it may be inflamed from overuse. Or you've torn the muscles in front of your shin bone.

The pain intensifies when you squat or climb stairs. Walking downstairs is more painful than climbing up.You're running on concrete or uneven surfaces in wornout shoes, or you're cycling on a seat that's too low or in a gear that's too high.

Dehydration is a condition that occurs when a person loses more fluids (such as urine or sweat) than he takes in. To feel your best, you need to replace that fluid. Dehydration is nowhere near as serious a problem for teens as it can be for babies or young children, but if you ignore your thirst, dehydration can slow you down.When someone gets dehydrated, it means the amount of water in his body has dropped below the proper level (our bodies are about two thirds water).

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This can happen if you eat too little or exercise too much. Carbohydrate intake: Your body may use protein for energy if you exercise with low levels of muscle glycogen or if you do repeated training sessions without eating more carbohydrates.

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Your body converts sugars and starches in carbohydrates to energy (glucose) or stores it in the liver and muscle tissues (glycogen), giving you endurance and power for high-intensity, short duration activities.

Walking downstairs is more painful than climbing up.You're running on concrete or uneven surfaces in wornout shoes, or you're cycling on a seat that's too low or in a gear that's too high.

You will need a healthy combination of vitamins, minerals, protein, carbs, fats, and other nutrients from different foods to be at the top of your game. That is why it is never a good idea to eat only one type of food when you're training for an event or game.