Sport Nutrition refresher

There's no right time to focus on your sport nutrition and daily diet as it should be an ongoing focus. Unfortunately, many athletes neglect proper eating until a setback occurs. It’s never too late in your life (or season) to appreciate the power of food and proper fueling. By staying up on your sport nutrition, macros and micros and hydration needs, you can protect your health, delay fatigue and consistently improve fitness.

When it comes to performance, nutrition alone doesn’t limit performance but it can certainly affect how your body performs. The best fitness routines and training strategies are only beneficial if your body is fueled properly.

Upon writing my book, Essential Sport Nutrition, my goal was to create a go-to source of practical and effective nutrition strategies to fuel and nourish your active lifestyle. On a basic level, nutrition is important to reduce risk for disease and to provide a source of energy to perform activities of daily living. For the extremely active, what (and when) you eat will help you meet performance goals without a health-related setback. Sport nutrition can appear confusing but it’s an essential component to enhance the adaptation to exercise. When you put principles into practice, you’ll find it much easier to perform to your potential.  

Performance involves more than the latest gear, strong muscles and a great coach. Whether you’re training for a competition or exercising to stay fit, fitness improvements are built off solid nutrition habits. Supply your body with the right nutrients at the right times and you’ll consistently be rewarded with high energy, great health and quick recovery.

Your body has increased energy demands during exercise. The food you eat throughout the day and during training provides your body with energy, electrolytes and fluids. Eating appropriately also reduces risk for sickness, injury and burnout. If your body doesn’t receive or have appropriate fuel, you’ll perform well-below your capabilities. As the duration or intensity of exercise increases, the body may not be able to keep up energy demands, resulting in fatigue. When you fall short on your requirements, you will sabotage your physical health and your psychological well-being.

Although sport performance and activity enjoyment depend on many different, yet intertwined, components – body composition, strength, endurance, psychology, sleep - many athletes are misled to believe that there’s one “right” way to eat. This reductionist way of applying sport nutrition research often ignores long-term health and performance consequences in an effort to adhere to a “quick fix” approach, typically to boost performance and/or change body composition. In my book, I have chosen to take a more all-inclusive approach to practical nutrition strategies to help you enhance sport performance, fitness and long-lasting health.  I hope you find my book easy-to-follow and simple to apply to your active lifestyle. 

At a glance, each section in this book includes sound information and practical strategies on a variety of sport nutrition topics:


Part One – Nutrition basics. Learn how what you eat affects your body and the components of a performance-focused diet. 

Part Two – Sport nutrition application. Learn specific guidelines on how to fuel around workouts and what to eat on rest days.  Get to know the facts behind supplements and performance enhancers.

Part Three – Optimize performance by understanding your individual nutritional needs, dependent on the specifics of your sport. Discover safe nutrition strategies for body composition change and learn to eat for recovery, brain and immune system health. 

Part Four – Put education into practice with delicious, athlete-approved meals, intended to meet your fitness needs.

With no standard prescription for sport nutrition, each section in this book will help you move closer to creating a personalized nutrition plan while gaining knowledge and appreciation for sport nutrition. Don't wait until it's too late to dial-in your daily diet and sport nutrition regime. 

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