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Sports nutrition is a practice as much as it can be classed a science. Athletes deserve to enjoy food and the social aspects of eating. Often athletes will need to eat and drink at times that are awkward or inconvenient, or to consume food quantities that do not match their appetite. Creative thinking and forward planning are needed to find suitable foods and drinks, or to make them readily available.

An athletes goal during competition is to perform to their optimum level. A range of factors can cause performance to drop including aspects related to nutrition. Eating for competition is based on the principle of implementing nutritional strategies that can reduce or delay the onset of factors that cause fatigue or impair performance.

Nutrition for sports includes special eating strategies undertaken before, during and in the recovery time post event.

Important factors that need to be considered when preparing a nutritional strategy for an athlete are:

• The duration and intensity of the exercise
• The environment conditions, e.g temperature
• The training status of the athlete
• The individual characteristics of the athlete
• The success of nutritional strategies before and during the event
• Eating to optimise recovery

To enquire about how Peaknutrition can help to optimise your performance please browse through the services section.

To arrange a free Sports Nutrition presentation for your club or society and to find out how engaging the service of a dietitian can help your performance please contact info@peaknutrition.ie or call 0868252648.