Sports Nutrition

Recreational
sports

Sports nutrition for the recreational athlete

What are recreational sports

Recreational Sports participation at any age and with any gender provides many potential benefits to individuals including improved physiological functioning, social interaction and the promotion of mental health. For the majority of recreational athletes (e.g., those exercising 45–90 minutes, 2–3 times per week), a dietary intake prioritising whole foods will be sufficient to meet an individual’s training and competition needs.

However, when exercise demands increase and/or when dietary intake is restricted, specific nutrition strategies should be implemented to promote favourable training adaptations and optimise competition performance while also supporting health and wellbeing.

benefits of a good diet for
the recreational athlete

A reciprocal relationship exists between nutrition and intense sports participation: frequent participation in sport can create unique nutritional requirements, while attention to the unique nutritional goals of sportspeople can enhance training and promote optimal competition performances.

An athlete’s nutritional needs are principally determined by training load (i.e., intensity, frequency and duration of daily workouts), type of exercise, age, gender and body mass. However, when immersed in a sport, individuals are often exposed to the dietary ‘norms’ (e.g. cycling and coffee), sports nutrition products (e.g. drinks, gels and supplements) and body composition expectations that can ultimately influence dietary intake.

Who all fit the category

Such resources may be particularly valuable for education of several groups of recreational athletes (eg endurance athletes, athletes in aesthetic sports, athletes in weight-making sports, adolescent athletes) at risk of consuming an inadequate dietary intake to meet the demands of daily training, health and wellbeing. Further, some athletes may prioritise nutritional strategies that support leanness over strategies complementing daily fluctuations in training, leaving an individual vulnerable to illness and injury.

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With our Sports Nutrition certification ESA/ACSM, we will work with you to develop a nutrition plan that allows you get the proper amount of nutrients, and perform your best at the same time.

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