date:Jun 22, 2012
people forget that athletes will not only have specialist skills training but also weight sessions and physiotherapy sessions. All of these are quite demanding and require fuel and hydration management.
From our perspective, there are also a lot more benefits to be gained at the elite level by the athlete being very mindful of how they eat around their training session or event
Role of nutrition
Pearce told us that the demands put on individual athletes body are very specific is to their resp