How you can support the endurance of your sports dog
Dog sport is becoming more and more popular among more and more owners. In addition to fun sports, such as dog frisbee, there are now more competitive dog sports in the form of canicross, dog scooting or sled dog racing, which are increasingly attracting the interest of many dog owners.
This is mostly a good thing, of course. After all, dog sport allows you to work to capacity and helps to satisfy your dog's urge to move. However, in order to avoid health problems, it is important to consider the physical strain of sport when feeding your athletically active four-legged friend.
We will explain below how you can best do this and how you can support your sports dog's endurance with natural products.
Why nutrition plays an important role in dog sports
If you are active with your four-legged friend in dog sports, this is inevitably associated with an increased level of physical activity and therefore also with additional consumption of energy.
It is important that you take this into account when calculating the amount of food you feed your dog. Only if you cover your dog's energy requirements will he be able to perform well during exercise. In addition, an insufficient supply of food increases the risk of injury and susceptibility to disease.
It is therefore not enough to focus exclusively on training and ignore the nutrition of your sporting dog. For a permanently healthy and productive dog, it is imperative that you treat both areas with the necessary care.
Special requirements for endurance sports with dogs
If you are out and about with your dog in endurance sports, it is important that you provide your four-legged friend with a suitable mixture of fats and carbohydrates. While carbohydrates can be used by your dog's body particularly quickly as a source of energy, fats only come to the fore in terms of energy supply with increasing duration of exertion.
Apart from this, you must of course bear in mind that longer distances in endurance sports are associated with enormous energy consumption. We therefore recommend an energy-rich dry food such as Bellfor Premium Pur Aktiv to cover your calorie requirements.
Food supplements can be useful in dog sports
Apart from the right dog food, special dietary supplements can also be useful to cover the increased nutritional requirements of a dog that is active in sports. When buying such products, it is of course important to ensure that they are of good quality and to refrain from using inferior products.
We recommend that you only use food supplements made from natural ingredients. After all, your four-legged friend should benefit optimally from taking them and should not have any problems in terms of tolerance.
Bellfor Fitness bars for endurance sports with dogs
With our Fitness Bar we have developed a very special food supplement for dogs that are active in endurance sports. The tasty bars have the ideal combination of nutrients that sports dogs need during prolonged physical activity.
- The insect fat they contain provides your dog with MCT fats and lauric acid, which are particularly easy for the dog's body to utilise and use as a source of energy.
- The salmon contained in Bellfor Fitness bars provides your four-legged friend with valuable omega-3 fats, which among other things contribute to rapid regeneration.
- Cod liver oil is rich in vitamins A, D and E.
- Sweet potatoes provide your sporting dog with easily digestible carbohydrates and various micronutrients, such as magnesium.
- Beetroot is rich in iron, vitamin B and nitrites, which can help to improve the oxygen supply during exercise.
- L-carnitine supports the fat metabolism.
- L-arginine can help to improve performance.
Like all Bellfor products, our fitness bars naturally contain only selected, high-quality ingredients. You can therefore be sure that your dog tolerates the easily digestible food supplement well and that you are optimally supporting him during endurance sports with Bellfor Fitness Bars.
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