Sports Nutrition & Performance

Sports Nutrition and Athletic Performance If you exercise regularly or if you are an athlete in training, you are trying to make your muscles work better. You want to be stronger if you are a weightlifter, you want to be able to throw a blistering fast ball if you are a baseball pitcher or you want to be able to finish strong at the end of a 26-mile race if you are a marathon runner. …

…the next match or training session. (Soccer Performance, 2002) It is clear that a professional athletes who trains and competes at regular intervals must have large glycogen stores in order to maintain optimal physical performance - thus the importance of good nutritional habits. There is no such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ food, only better food choices. If you fuel your body properly, then it will be better equipped to help you meet your athletic potential.