Effects of Micronutrient Supplementation on Endurance Running Performance of Adolescent Girls

In the arena of sport from the very ancient days athletes as well as experts are looking for ways and means for development and enrichment of athletes. Quite often the athletes use some sort of unfair means like doping for enhancing their performance. On the contrary if the athletes are trained technically and supplemented scientifically with respect to their nutritional needs, they can perform better in sport field than technical training only. In most of the third world countries people often suffer from malnutrition and so are the athletes. Many researchers focused towards supplementation and its application in grooming of athletes. Keeping in consideration the above facts the scholar premeditated to conduct a study to analyse the effects of selected micronutrient supplementation on endurance running performance of adolescent girls. Keeping in view the ethical part the scholar had continuous consultation with a medical expert; employed renowned company for assessment of biochemical tests and also used consent form for seeking voluntary willingness of the subjects. As an experimental analysis the scholar prepared a composite prescription of micronutrients composed of the minerals Ca, Mg, Fe, and vitamins B12 and D; based on the initial test and diagnosis of the medical expert. There after the supplementation was administered. From data analysis it is revealed that the endurance running performance of the girls developed significantly due to the supplementation. Based on findings of other researchers and other literary materials it is quite evident that the vitamins and minerals used for supplementation in the study are performance boosters and played a significant role in development of performance of the untrained girls.