Nutrition for Top Performance in Soccer

Michael Gleeson

ISBN 10: 1782552308 / ISBN 13: 9781782552307

Published by Meyer + Meyer Fachverlag Jan 2022, 2022

About this Item

Neuware -Nutrition plays a crucial role in the match performance and recovery of the athlete. To apply the principles of sports nutrition in soccer, this book provides nutrition basics as well as insight into the physiological demands of the game itself by looking into what elite players eat and drink.Appropriate food choices and timing are also important for a player to perform hard, avoid illness, and recuperate from injury. This book uses the UEFA 2020 Expert Group Consensus Review on Nutrition in Elite Football to give evidence-based guidelines for optimizing soccer performance through appropriate nutrition and the latest comprehensive information on nutrition guidelines for professional players-also relevant to the amateur player. Included are the specific needs of female players and match officials and relevant issues such as eating during travel and food hygiene. Finally, the book provides some sample meal plans for training, match, and recovery days, including recipes by two top performance chefs who regularly prepare meals for elite players.The science behind sports nutrition is evolving fast. Knowing what the top professional players are eating and drinking can help amateur players improve their own performance, recovery, and health.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nutrition for Top Performance in Soccer
• Publisher: Meyer + Meyer Fachverlag Jan 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782552308
• ISBN 13: 9781782552307
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 163H x 22D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 163 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 754 grams

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Synopsis

This book uses the UEFA 2020 Expert Group Consensus Review on Nutrition in Elite Football to give evidence-based guidelines for optimizing soccer performance through appropriate nutrition. Also included are some amusing anecdotes about the history of soccer nutrition and some of the obscure and even absurd food and beverage choices that professional players have made over the years.

About the Author

Michael Gleeson is Emeritus Professor of Exercise Biochemistry in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University (UK). He is a world authority on exercise biochemistry, immunology, and nutrition and has published more than 250 scientific papers, 30 book chapters, and has co-authored textbooks on exercise metabolism, exercise immunology, and sport nutrition. He is the former president of the International Society of Exercise and Immunology and a Fellow of the European College of Sport Science and the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences. He has been a member of several IOC expert groups and contributed to scientific consensus papers on the overtraining syndrome, training load and illness/injury risk, sport nutrition, immuno-nutrition, and exercise and immune function.