Athlete Nutrition Themes

The athlete I have chosen is a 22 year old city soccer player named Erika Ibarra. It is important for Erika to have a nutrition that supports her power and endurance training for soccer. It is important for her to have a well balanced source of nutrients. She needs a goof source of carbohydrates and fats to help give her the energy she needs to support her endurance work outs. She also should have a good amount of protein to repair muscles before and after her workout. Her recommended daily calorie intake is 2000 calories according to the super tracker tool. I would also recommend her taking 1 serving size of multivitamins in the morning to insure that she is getting a good source of vitamins and minerals. Below is the 24 hour meal recall for

In this metabolic study, eight men and eight women, whom were competitive, healthy cyclists were selected. This crossover study was conducted on four separate days, each time the participants were told to do light exercise the previous day and eat a typical prerace meal one to two hours prior to the experiment. At random each was given one of three carbohydrate supplements (sports

Overall, all the participants did not meet recommendations for CHO, Vitamin A, D, C, B1, and B6 during training and, in addition, women did not consume the recommendations for PRO, calcium, iron, and zinc.5 Furthermore, during the race 75% of the runners doing the 60- km race fell short on getting the recommend CHO. For the 120-km runners, 3 of the 4 men took in greater than 500 ml/h of fluid, which met recommendations, but only 1 runner took in greater than the recommended CHO during the race (108 g/hr). One major limitation of this study is that the four runners PRO, sodium, and fat intakes weren’t recorded during the 120-km

It is known that the diet of an athlete can have an effect on his/her overall performance(Bronci; 2011).Athletes, who have healthy and balanced diets, can perform better due to having adequate nutrient stores built up in their

Nutrition and fatigue are two major areas of exercise and sport. Sport and nutrition together can be a major factor in preventing fatigue, and maintaining a good diet can help keep the athlete consistent with training and performance without the training load being too detrimental and leaving the athlete with excessive fatigue, illness or recurring injuries. Training and eating becomes a cycle of preparation and recovery, with meals and snacks consumed after one session becoming the pre-event meal for a subsequent workout. The ingestion of carbohydrates, fats and proteins all aid in the promotion of optimal training and performance. As well as food fuels, recovery is a significantly important factor in regards to having an adequate training session or

Good nutrition and its role in positively affecting athletic performance has become more and more evident almost daily. Specific macro and micronutrients are better understood as to their specific functions within the body and from that how they can influence the body’s ability to perform while under duress. An example of such would be the stress of athletic performance. Vitamin D, which is also referred to as cholecalciferol, is one of the fat soluble vitamins that have been attributed to influencing athletic performance. However, vitamin D is not as much a “performance enhancing” nutrient in the sense that when taken in higher amounts it will aid athletic performance, but rather when in deficient amounts it can hinder athletic

Athletes often overlook the energy demands of daily training sessions. Total calories required are considerably increased for the training and competing athlete versus the average person, but it should be done in the proper % to total daily intake. If sufficient calories are not included in the diet, an athlete will lose to much weight, become fatigued more quickly and performance will

The prominent macronutrient that needs to be utilized in the days and hours before training/competition is carbohydrates. At 9am, client 2110 ate oats with semi skimmed milk, followed by a yogurt, which equated to 40.3g of carbohydrates. A few hours later at 11am the client had noodles followed by a cereal bar which contained 35.3g of carbohydrates. Therefore, in total, the athlete consumed 75.6g of carbohydrates before competition (2pm). Carbohydrate oxidation, gained from muscle glycogen utilization, specifically during the first hour of prolonged exercise, has been seen to increase with the ingestion of a rich carbohydrate meal 4 hours prior to exercise (Coyle et al., 1985). Similarly, Hargreaves et al. (2004) suggests that

Carbohydrates should be considered the most importance macronutrient that should be consumed post exercise, not only as it is a major fuel source in the supply the aerobic (oxidative) system, but it being the only fuel source in anaerobic glycolic system, both of which are heavily utilized in basketball (CITE). In addition, carbohydrates have the ability to muscle protein, muscle glycogen and liver glycogen sparing mechanisms (CITE). During games players, such as LeBron, experience quick bursts of movement over a long duration, which require quick muscle contractions to produce quick movements throughout the game. Therefore, during games in order to produce repetitive quick movements, both anaerobically and aerobically, the muscles heavily rely on carbohydrate metabolism within the muscle and liver to supply ATP as carbohydrates can be readily broken down within the muscle in the mitochondria, the bodies greatest store of muscle glycogen, where it is the muscle glycogen can produce ATP for the muscle three times as rapid (CITE). In addition, the liver is able to metabolize glycogen which can be absorbed into the skeletal muscles rapidly due to specialized transport proteins glucose transporter (GLUT-4), where increased contractions and movement results in increased recruitment (CITE). In order for muscles, especially, to be able to metabolize ATP via muscle glycogen during exercise it is essential muscle glycogen stores are filled back up post exercise in order to sustain high performance and duration for the next performance. Without proper replenishment, specifically of muscle glycogen, post exercise, the output of hepatic glucose decreases at every level of intensity, meaning both intensity and duration are unable to be maintained during the next bout and decreased overall performance (CITE).

Benjamin Levine M.D. discusses the advantages of altitude training for elite athletes such as Olympians. While altitude training does not give a drastic advantage or improvement in performance, less than one second can be the difference between winning and losing in the Olympics. However, noncompetitive athletes most likely will see little to no improvement from altitude training even though gimmicky products such as “high elevation” training masks say so otherwise. Training at high altitude delivers less oxygen to the muscles, which increases the mass of red blood cells. The mass of red blood cells allows the blood to carry more oxygen; this allows the blood expanding effect to enhance an elite athlete’s performance by 1 to 2 percent.

““They’re an easy and convenient source of complete high-quality protein,” says Carole Conn, PhD, associate professor of nutrition at the University of New Mexico” (Shaw). A professor of nutrition agrees that protein is not only easy and convenient, but also a high-quality and safe source of protein. This essay will feature the pros, cons, and the stance of the author. Dietary supplements are beneficial for high school athletes and although the opposition to supplementation is high, it has been shown that there are numerous positives to supplementing.

When athletes use dietary supplements it is easy for them to ignore the long term effects of these supplements in order for them to gain temporary advantages. If not used correctly, dietary supplements can lead to irreversible damage to the body or even death. Understanding the advantages and drawbacks of using supplements is important when applying them to your everyday life. In this paper, a variety of supplements commonly used by athletes for weight loss, muscle gain, and energy enhancement will be discussed. Their effects on the body will be explained as will the pros and cons of each. The ongoing debate on whether or not athletes should be allowed to use them is also discussed. The knowledge of what you put into your body can

I have been reviewing an athlete of my choices diet over a 7-day period where they have told me what they have been eating and activity levels and I will be working out if he needs to eat more or less calories a day.

The answer to whether the athletes are consuming adequate nutrition is somewhat muddled. Based on the current recommendations4 none of the athletes met all the macronutrient requirements; this would suggest that the athletes are not getting the required nutrients. Unfortunately, several of these studies show huge discrepancies in the amounts of macronutrients that recreational runners and the elite runners consume.5,3 Elite athletes (who are running much faster) may need to consume greater amounts of macronutrients, so closer to the current recommendations, but for the recreational athletes (who are running much slower) a different set of guidelines based on their individual

Footballers nutritional needs play an important role in becoming an elite player, in fact the importance is so highly important that every elite level player knows it’s importance and follows a specific diet in their respective clubs and their personal lives. One of the greatest managers to ever grace the game Arsene Wenger has also mentioned “food is like kerosene. If you put the wrong one in your car, it’s not as quick as it should be” (Wegner, 2003). To create a perfect diet different factors should also be considered such as timing of every meal, the amount of calories and carbs needed, hydration, micro nutrients, vitamins, fats and protein. All these