Nutrition in Sport
It’s no surprise that a good diet leads to a healthy lifestyle. Did you know that a good diet is also good for sports too! Good nutrition can enhance your sports performance.
Let’s have a look at the impact your diet could be having on you and your sports.
Good V Bad Diet
A Good diet:
Delay fatigue
Improve skill and concentration
Prevent injury and illness
Achieve fitness and training targets.
A Poor diet:
Increasing your likelihood of injury
Decreasing your concentration and skill
Causing you to fatigue sooner
Not allowing you to achieve consistent training targets.
A poor diet will prevent you from achieving your potential!
Both athletes and non-athletes need the same nutrients... carbohydrate, protein, fat, vitamins, mineral and water, but they need to consume them in different quantities and proportions for their age and training needs.
Vitamins and minerals do not provide energy but are needed in very small amounts to enable the body to perform efficiently and effectively.
“Interest in nutrition and its impact on sporting performance is now a science in itself”
Whether you are a competing athlete, a weekend sports player or a dedicated daily exerciser, the foundation to improved performance is a nutritionally adequate diet.
To read more about nutritional needs for the sporting teenager read more on Safefood guidelines
For nutritional advice and needs for all athletes why look not look at the Irish Dietetic and Nutrition Institute for Sports and Nutrition
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