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We asked the authors of the new book Sport Nutrition (4th edition), Professors Asker Jeukendrup and Michael Gleeson to tell us what their recently published book, is about, what is new, and why they think it should be adopted for college, university and online sport nutrition courses around the world.
Sitting position is the primary position of esport athletes and practice or training times for esport athletes often ranges from 8 to 10 hour. It is important to integrate physical activity to maintain the health of these athletes.
What are the best nutrition practices for an endurance athlete before, during, and after a competition? This excerpt from Nutrition for Sport, Exercise, and Health Second Edition will provide you with some of the tips and key information on how nutrition can be applied to endurance activities.
The mental health problems that have received the most attention are anxiety and depression. However, exercise appears to be associated with positive changes in mood states and a reduction in overall levels of anxiety and depression.
If you’re on the journey to build muscle and transform your physique you’ll no doubt be following Brad Schoenfeld’s M.A.X Muscle Plan. The plan takes you through everything you need to build muscle, with a variety of strength training exercises for each part of the body, plus nutrition advice. But, can you add cardio to your muscle-building regime? Or will it hinder your progress? We explore in this adapted excerpt from Brad Schoenfeld’s The M.A.X Muscle Plan 2.0.
In order to perform at your best as an athlete, it is important that recovery is incorporated into your training plan. Not leaving sufficient time to recover between training sessions or competitions could lead to poor performance. In this post adapted from NSCA’s Essentials of Sport Science we explore different recovery strategies for athletes.
As a coach choosing the right strength training exercises for athletes can be a daunting task with so many options out there: free weights, exercise machines, isometrics, uphill ambulation with an additional load, drop jumps, self-resistance exercises, and so on. In this post, adapted from Science and Practice of Strength Training, we explore the various classes of exercises used for strength enhancement for both beginning and qualified athletes.
In this post we explore how to achieve maximal hypertrophy from your training plan. Adapted from Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy we explore how to gain maximal hypertrophy across various major muscle groups.
