How you play is affected not only by what you eat hours before the game, but also by your nutrition choices on the days and weeks leading up. The athlete diet is more than calories - it’s nutrients that power peak potential. Vitamins and minerals unlock energy, support reactions, and complete pathways to keep athletes in top condition. Not only is it important to eat a good balance of macronutrients, but we want to choose foods that are dense with micronutrients.
Macronutrients - carbohydrates, protein, and fats - provide the energy and essential building blocks necessary for physical feats and mental acuity.
Nutrients power athletic precision Healthy food selection with fruits, vegetables, seeds, superfood, cereals on gray background The goal is to prevent a roller-coaster of energy highs and lows, so players compete at their best.īy avoiding sugar and highly processed foods (like in the primal diet), and seeking a balance of whole food macronutrients – dips, drops, and dragging feet (also known as “hitting the wall”) can be prevented.Īlong with hydration, this recipe results in a focused and high functioning athlete. Proper food choices can help keep blood sugar stable throughout a soccer game. The types of food a soccer player eats will impact whether glycogen stores are sufficient and whether the body can effectively access fat for energy. The body is thus reliant on a combination of glycogen, the storage form of carbohydrate, and fat for fuel. Soccer requires sustained energy for 60 to 90 minutes with intermittent bursts of higher intensity. Stored fatty acids are fuel for longer-duration lower-intensity exercise. But again, that process doesn’t last through an entire soccer match. Repeated high-energy outputs use glycogen stored in the muscles. This process happens during an all-out sprint or lifting weights. Looking at the graph above, we see that the body can create ATP quickly, but it doesn’t last long. The energy that keeps us moving comes from food, but it must be converted into ATP for our body to use it. That’s why teenage athlete meal planning should be properly researched. The right food and proper hydration provide us with energy (the get-up and go), stable blood sugar (prolonged function), and athletic precision (neural patterns). Our bodies function as a result of what we put into them.
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