Totum Sport’s hypertonic concentration for all 78 minerals in fully bio-available form holds water in the body and cells, providing the correct internal environment for optimum metabolism.
TOTUM SPORT HELPS THE BODY MAINTAIN HYDRATION AND MAXIMISES PERFORMANCE
Sweating is a normal occurrence during exercise. This can result in significant water loss which particularly impairs endurance performance. Athletes aim to be fully hydrated at the start of competition but can easily dehydrate over an extended duration. It is important to rehydrate properly during training sessions and competitions. Totum Sport helps elite athletes hydrate quickly.

It is easy for athletes to become inadvertently dehydrated given that they do not perceive thirst until they have shed about 2% of body weight from water loss by which time they have already dropped 10% performance.

If athletes continue to lose water and become further dehydrated, losses >5% of body weight will reduce work capacity by at least 30% and can have serious health implications.

• Dehydration during competitions or training sessions will result in increased heart rate and core body temperature.
• Research suggests that rising core body temperature will contribute to muscle fatigue and compromise the central nervous system.
• Dehydration therefore limits the performance levels that can be achieved and maintained through failure to properly control core body temperature.

Totum Sport provides the optimal mineralisation so that muscles can rapidly utilise available energy as explosive power, through the full range of movement with maximum strength. Muscle contraction itself requires the presence and right balance of all the minerals and trace elements involved with nerve function, muscle protein structures and phase transitions involved in the actual shortening of the muscle fibres. Minerals and trace elements involved in supporting the function of Calcium, Sodium, Potassium are just as important for optimising muscle function as the Calcium, etc themselves.

Muscles are actively and continuously supplied with all the glucose and oxygen they require for energy in the muscles. Totum Sport maintains energy metabolism for maximum ATP production. Muscle tears occur when muscles start to cramp as they fatigue. These minor muscle tears can more easily develop into serious muscle injuries. By maintaining muscle function and preventing cramp, Totum Sport helps prevent the more minor tears that can develop into larger ones. Better recovery between sessions helps reduce injuries too.

If used as a routine part of training, Totum Sport enables training to a higher level that increases strength and stamina, delaying muscle fatigue and reducing muscle injuries.

Athletes who are training hard often find that their immune system is compromised. When infections that are circulating in the population are encountered they get established more easily and because the immune system is low they are more difficult to fight off. Athletes who cannot take commonly prescribed medications for anti-doping reasons have to rely on their own weak immune system. Training regimes and programmes are inevitably interrupted which could potentially have major career implications regarding selection for teams, for big events and with sponsorship implications too.
Research with athletes at the University of Alicante found that Totum Sport increases the levels of certain markers that indicate immune status. This means that Totum Sport is supporting your overall health and ability to resist and fight infections which provides a sound foundation for improving performance.

Totum Sport primes the digestive tract ready for recovery supplements to enhance the uptake of carbohydates required to replenish glycogen stores in your muscles and liver and for protein and amino acids to repair and build muscles. Athletes frequently report that they no longer feel muscle aches the day after a hard training or competition. Muscles that recover more fully are less prone to fatigue and injury in subsequent sessions.

Totum Sport preserves nerve function

Totum Sport supports the delivery of oxygen and glucose to the brain and nervous system, ensuring there is no loss of concentration, reflexes or reduction in vision.

It is no coincidence that most mistakes and sports injuries happen late in a period of play – typically during the last 10 minutes of a half in football or rugby. Teams that can keep going right to the end get a reputation for finishing well and “stealing” games. As the body dehydrates and the mineral balance is upset, cells become less efficient at actively taking up glucose and oxygen that are required for energy metabolism. Nerve cell membranes become less stable and nerve conductivity is slowed down. In the brain this results in reduced depth of vision which makes it difficult to judge distances as accurately; narrowed field of vision which makes it more difficult to spot team mates or opponents; and reaction times are slowed down. Combined with slower nerve conductivity and muscle fatigue, actions and reactions are slower, meaning tackles and passes becoming less accurately controlled.

Stamina is defined as the ability to sustain repeated muscle contraction and maintain aerobic metabolism. Once muscles are forced to switch to anaerobic function, energy metabolism is much less efficient and performance levels drop off significantly and quickly.

Totum Sport ensures that muscles are continuously and actively supplied with sufficient glucose and oxygen required for ongoing energy production. If used as a routine part of your training and recovery, Totum Sport increases the body’s ability to mobilise and deliver glucose and oxygen to muscles. Enhanced stamina training delays muscle fatigue and reduces the risk of muscle injuries.

Totum Sport delivers exceptional stamina, ensuring your performance is maintained beyond the endurance of your competitors.

Cardiovascular exercise can be by characterised by one simple requirement – the ability to sustain repeated muscle contractions. For this, the body needs to maintain both supplies that the muscles consume, i.e.

• Oxygen
• Energy

Two other factors also play a critical role:

• Hydration
• Genetics

Oxygen consumption is key to sustaining the repeated muscle contractions required for endurance exercise. Totum Sport ensures key components involved in oxygen absorption, transport and delivery into the cells are maximised.

Muscle tissue requires fuel to perform, and glycogen — the storage form of glucose — is the preferred fuel. As the glycogen stores in your muscles and liver are depleted, your muscles also use the glucose in the bloodstream, but this supply is limited. Now desperate for fuel, your body converts muscle protein into energy. Muscle tissue breakdown continues to predominate until you get the right nourishment. After exercise it is imperative to move as quickly as possible into restoration mode. Glycogen restoration is essential in order to avoid fatigue and diminished training capacity.

Totum Sport post-exercise helps the body absorb recovery nutrition, which should be based around simple carbohydrates and amino acids for rapid uptake into the body and transport to the liver and muscles within a short time after exercise. For the first hour post exercise, glycogen replenishment takes place at roughly twice the normal rate. It is therefore vital that recovery supplementation taken after Totum Sport occurs as soon as possible throughout this time in order to ready muscles and glycogen stores for the next activity.

Rehydration is important too, although this should be ongoing with water only during exercise wherever possible. Exercise by its nature creates small muscle tears that need to be repaired. The hormone cortisol is released to reduce inflammation but continues to break down structural proteins. Totum Sport contains natural anti-oxidants, which stops the release of cortisol and therefore protein breakdown. The hypertonic elements help with water absorption to complete the set of totally beneficial effects athletes have used it for, for decades.