Book chapter
Strength and power athletes
Nutrition for Sport, Exercise, and Performance: Science and Application, 2nd Edition, pp.227-235
Routledge, 2nd Edition
2024
Abstract
Strength and power athletes create unique challenges for the nutrition service provider given their reliance on readily accessible sources of information, susceptibility to sports supplement marketing, potentially distorted body image, and challenges associated with achieving a specified weight category in some sports, plus the general void of scientific investigation in recent years relating specifically to this unique group of athletes. This chapter reviews the role nutrition plays in three aspects of training for strength and power athletes: (1) fuelling of sport-specific and strength training, (2) recovery from this training, and (3) the promotion of training adaptations. While the nutritional focus of strength and power athletes has been on skeletal muscle hypertrophy throughout the year, this chapter highlights for the sports nutrition professional that greater consideration is needed for an athlete's broader sports nutrition needs to support optimal fuelling for, and recovery from, sport-specific and resistance training.
Details
- Title
- Strength and power athletes
- Authors
- Gary Slater (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Nutrition & DieteticsLachlan Mitchell (Author) - Australian Catholic University
- Contributors
- Adrienne Forsyth (Editor) - Australian Catholic UniversityEvangeline Mantzioris (Editor) - University of South AustraliaRegina Belski (Editor) - La Trobe University
- Publication details
- Nutrition for Sport, Exercise, and Performance: Science and Application, 2nd Edition, pp.227-235
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003321286-21; 10.4324/9781003321286
- ISBN
- 9781003321286
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health - Nutrition & Dietetics
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991000469302621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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