The Importance of Nutrition

I will normally by writing about football news, training tips and just my general opinion about football on this blog but today I wanted to make a little post which was triggered by something I read recently.

Modern Day Sports Nutrition

Gone are the days where footballers played on a Saturday and went out boozing on the Saturday night, smoking cigarettes and downing pints of beer before rolling home with some girls from the pub. Nowadays you are more likely to find that a top level professional, or even a semi-pro player, will be at home and in bed before midnight and then up early the next morning to have a massage and a swim.

The world of sport has changed. No longer are people reliant just upon their natural skills and abilities to succeed, they must also have discipline and very good nutrition. The saying goes that “you are what you eat”, so eating fat pies and drinking beer is not going to do you much good on the pitch. Instead, players are now taking very good care of themselves, eating properly and not poisoning their bodies with alcohol and other drugs.

You just have to take a look at the US department of Agriculture website and the number of articles on their which are related to sports nutrition to see how important and popular it has become in today’s sporting world.

Supplementation

It’s also very common for players to use supplements, such as protein shakes, minerals and vitamins in order to boost their health and ensure their bodies are as optimally primed as possible for whatever training they need to do. A very common supplement is to take protein powder post training and match because it helps to aid the body repair any damage to the muscles which has been inflicted whilst playing.

I personally use protein powder myself both for post match recovery and after gym sessions. I have used this website quite a bit for recommendations on which protein powder to buy because it seems to be independent and has a very honest approach to what they are saying. I hope that they are independent, anyway. They definitely don’t have their own products to sell, so I imagine that they are pretty honest about the ones they have reviewed.

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