Implementation of a nutrition programme for team sports involves application of scientific research together with the social skills necessary to work with a sports medicine and coaching staff. Both field and court team sports are characterized by intermittent activity requiring a heavy reliance on dietary carbohydrate sources to maintain and replenish glycogen. Energy and substrate demands are ...

TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS AND TO ENHANCE SKELETAL MUSCLE RECOVERY FROM HIGH-INTENSITY TRAINING, THE ATHLETE NEEDS TO ENSURE ADEQUATE ENERGY AND PROTEIN CONSUMPTION. PROTEIN INTAKE MAY HAVE EVEN GREATER RELEVANCE DURING PERIODS OF WEIGHT LOSS OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMBAT SPORT ATHLETE. COMBAT SPORT ATHLETES OFTEN USE WATER RESTRICTION TO ACCOMPLISH DESIRED WEIGHT LOSS. THIS HAS SE...

Phillipa Caudwell, Catherine Gibbons, Mark Hopkins, Erik Naslund, Neil King, Graham Finlayson and John Blundell* Institute of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK Sport, Health, Leisure and Nutrition, Leeds Trinity University College, Brownberrie Lane, Horsforth, Leeds LS18 5HD, UK Clinical Sciences (Division of Surgery), Danderyd Hospit...

Peter M. Christensen , Michael Nyberg, Stefan P. Mortensen, Jens Jung Nielsen, Niels H. Secher, Rasmus 3 Damsgaard, Ylva Hellsten, Jens Bangsbo 4 1 Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Section of Integrated Physiology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 5 2 Team Danmark (Danish elite sport organization), Copenhagen, Denmark 6 3 The Copenhagen Muscle Research Center, Rigshospitalet, Cope...

Background: CrossFit is a large, growing force in the fitness community. Currently, Level 1 and 2 CrossFit certification classes do not include nutrition education. The purpose of this study was to identify sports nutrition knowledge, perceptions, resources, and advice given by Certified CrossFit Trainers. Methods: An online questionnaire that measured these four constructs was placed on a priv...

An overview of the relationship between elite athletes’ sport activity and medicine was presented during a conference with guest speaker Mrs. Sara Simeoni, Italian Olympic Games high jump champion (one gold medal, in Moscow, and silver medals in Montreal and Los Angeles). She has had a particularly prolonged career for this type of sport activity, and her endorsement and support, since she is a...

Athletes are at higher risk than the general population for eating disorders, and risk is heightened for athletes in thin-build sports, including track. Collegiate athletes are particularly vulnerable to disordered eating when the transition from home to the college environment adds to the stress of performance pressures and the high demands of the sport environment. Male and female athletes wh...