Just Breathe

It’s well known that nutrition plays a key role in developing and maintaining of top athletic form and overall sports performance. Even so, many athletes solely concentrate on training, neglecting their nutritional program and depriving themselves of true peak performance.

Proper nutrition helps an athlete produce and utilize energy more efficiently. Furthermore, a sound nutrition program will help prevent nagging injuries that can interfere with training.

Recently, Kim Mueller, M.S., R.D., completed full nutritional analyses on a group of 25 competitive athletes, including elite-level distance runners (12 males, 13 females), to see what nutritional deficiencies existed. The purpose of this research project was to determine the overall metabolic efficiency and adequacy of a runner’s diet in relation to the high demands of the sport and the recommendations specified by National Research Council.

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