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Positive Nutritional Diet

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The benefits of a positive nutritional diet I believe are as important as a positive training routine. When I was younger, I was inactive and ate poorly. I was overweight and very out of shape. I did not begin playing team sports until about the age of 15, I had mostly been involved in skateboarding and snowboarding. When I began playing sports, it was for my high school ultimate frisbee team. We did not have a coach my first year. The school did not recognize us as a sport and did not provide us with any support or sponsorship. There was no coach, no physical trainer, no one to teach us the proper fundamentals a typical athlete learns during high school years. The team was run by one of the captains, he got us into tournaments, set up training routines, and basically ran the team. When I first started playing, I was very out of shape. I had never played such an intense sport before. The first time we ran a warm up lap I felt like my heart was going to explode. As time went on, my fitness level increased, however my nutritional knowledge remained the same. I was still …show more content…

Knowing then what I know now, I would have benefited extremely in my training if my knowledge of proper nutrition was established. Good nutritional habits are needed when it comes to playing sports. As I coach that is one of the main things I am going to stress and make sure to educate my athletes on. I want to make sure they can advance their fitness levels by making sure they are getting the proper nutrients needed. It was not until the end of my high school years when I started learning better nutrient habits. Luckily this was due to my brother studying nutrition in college. He helped me learn some basic fundamentals, and with the increased knowledge of nutrition I was able to lose weight, run longer, and build better muscle. Once I was able to take off some weight, tournaments became more fun and less of a

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