NUTRITION FOR THE ELITE FOOTBALLER
- Authors
- Corporate Authors
- Defence and Civil Inst of Environmental Medicine, Downsview ONT (CAN)
- Abstract
- Competitive football demands exercise at a relatively high intensity for a prolonged duration as well as maximal intensity, sprint-like exercise performed intermittently throughout a match. The rate at which the energy required to meet these demands must be supplied, dictates that the musculature is highly dependent on its stores of glycogen. Exhaustion of these stores impairs the athlete's ability to perform up to his/her potential. The paper attempts to enhance awareness of the quantity of carbohydrates one must consume to ensure that sufficient muscle glycogen stores will be available at the beginning of a match so that skill and physical fitness, not fuel availability, will decide the winner.
- Report Number
- DCIEM-88-P-03 — Research Paper; Reprint
- Date of publication
- 01 Jan 1987
- Number of Pages
- 11
- Reprinted from
- Proceedings of First World Congress of Science and Football, 1987, p 23-32
- DSTKIM No
- 90-01110
- CANDIS No
- 63381
- Format(s):
- Hardcopy;Originator's fiche received by DSIS
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