It’s no secret. Especially for my readers and followers. Exercise researchers and sports nutritionists have known for years that carbohydrates and fats are the most important fuel for endurance. Step into the new millennium and science has discovered Continue Reading
Soccer Nutrition- Get Ready To Crush Your Opposition
Do you know how many people play soccer worldwide? The number has climbed to 138,000,000 million. Can you believe it? Soccer is the undefeated sport of the world. No other sport comes close to these kind of numbers and rightly so. Although soccer has Continue Reading
Soccer Hydration- Break Even Today And Break The Bank Tomorrow
The importance of fluids in Soccer nutrition has been recognised now for over a decade. Fluids are a vital part of proper soccer nutrition. It's with virtual certainty that fluids and proper hydration will improve your soccer performance. First, Continue Reading
Pre-Match Meal For Soccer- The Books Are Not Always Right.
When you open up a soccer book to research certain topics, do not always take the information as being gospel or correct. There are 100's and 1000's of books that talk about soccer nutrition and the pre-match diet. The majority of the books I've Continue Reading
Soccer Nutrition: Eating Can Help Reduce The Risk Of Injury.
Most soft tissue injuries occur when a player is fatigued and is suffering from tiredness. Weakness and muscle soreness can be prevented to some extent through proper nutrition. Its no secret that glycogen levels in the blood stream and in the Continue Reading
Soccer Nutrition: The Pre-Match Meal.
So far we have established that Soccer Nutrition plays an important role in performance. Lets investigate further some of the rules and myths that have been floating around for decades about the pre-match meal Continue Reading
Soccer Nutrition Tips- The Sugar Effect.
In the previous lesson we learnt that hypoglycemia is a condition which occurs when an athlete or child starves himself before training or before a match. This results in the levels of glucose dropping in the blood stream, therefore affecting the Continue Reading
