ATP in Body Builders vs. Regular People
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ATP in Body Builders vs. Regular People

Take a look at how and why body builders are allowed to push their bodies to extremes more than ordinary people.

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ATP in Body Builders vs. Regular People
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Bodybuilders are able to exercise their bodies to an extreme after eating an abundant amount of food. These humongous people have to also create an excess amount of energy in order to exercise many times a day. This is where adenosine triphosphate comes into play, as it gives out energy from the gamma phosphate for the bodybuilder to work out. On the other hand, an average person does not workout and eat as much as a bodybuilder, but still gets ATP from food in order to perform daily tasks. The rate of ATP production would not change from bodybuilder to average person.

In order to make ATP from the intake of food there are many metabolic processes that take place. When food is digested, it is broken down to glucose which is controlled by insulin in the blood stream. Insulin is created in the pancreas, and leads the glucose into the cell where the process of glycolysis occurs. Glycolysis abstracts the nutrients from glucose and creates pyruvate. The pyruvate can be used in the Kreb’s cycle to create NADH and FADH2 for transport to the electron transport chain. In the electron transport chain the NADH and FADH2 are broken down to release energy. Complexes 1-4 break of the hydrogens off NADH and FADH2 and carry it through the ETC to oxygen acting as an electron acceptor. The energy from NADH and FADH2 are also used to create ATP using ATP synthase pumping an inorganic phosphate through to create ATP from ADP. This process creates 36 - 38 molecules of ATP. The steps show the many complex steps of obtaining energy from food.

In society today, many bodybuilders practice eating a massive meal at one sitting to gain more energy. According to many nutritionists, this is a wrong practice, as your body needs all the key macromolecules in order to thrive. An average person could eat all of the macromolecules and have more energy than a bodybuilder that eats a huge serving of one type of macromolecule. If the body only gets one type of macromolecule, it can only break down that one macromolecule of food. Bodybuilders should consume all the necessary parts of a balanced diet, and find an alternative source of quick long term energy.

The rate that ATP is produced it a key factor in everyday life for many people including bodybuilders. With the consumption of healthy foods, the body will have a faster rate of ATP production. The rate that ATP is produced determines how quickly the body will be able to perform endergonic tasks. Without the production of ATP the body has no energy, therefore can not perform many essential processes and reactions. To summarize, the body will perform better with a high rate of ATP production along with a balanced diet.

Adenosine Triphosphate has always been an energy source for humans, dating back to the first generations. The food humans eat now contain more energy than the low calorie foods of the past. In early times humans either hunted and got protein from meat or gathered fruits and vegetables for a small amount of carbohydrates. The consumption of proteins and small carbohydrates was not enough for humans to perform the many daily endergonic processes. The food available today contains more macromolecules, therefore giving more energy for humans to complete more energy consuming tasks.

To reiterate, regular people and bodybuilders create energy in the form of ATP at the same rate. Bodybuilders need to improve their incorrect ways of obtaining massive amounts of unhealthy macromolecules. The rate of ATP production affects the tasks the body is able to complete. The food humans consume has evolved over time to provide more energy for endergonic processes.

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