Participation in sports offers many health benefits to athletes of both sexes. However,
subsets of both female and male athletes are at increased risk of impaired bone health and …

Weightlifting is a dynamic strength and power sport in which two, multijoint, whole-body lifts
are performed in competition; the snatch and clean and jerk. During the performance of …

Official dietary guidelines for athletes are unanimous in their recommendation of high
carbohydrate (CHO) intakes in routine or training diets. These guidelines have been …

Implementation of a nutrition programme for team sports involves application of scientific
research together with the social skills necessary to work with a sports medicine and …

Strength and power athletes are primarily interested in enhancing power relative to body
weight and thus almost all undertake some form of resistance training. While athletes may …

Soccer players should achieve an energy intake that provides sufficient carbohydrate to fuel
the training and competition programme, supplies all nutrient requirements, and allows …

Recent literature on the biology and medicine of soccer (primarily since 1990) has been
accumulated by a combination of computer searching of relevant databases and review of …

Objective: To learn more about the prevalence of dietary supplement and medication use by
Canadian athletes in the Olympic Games in Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000. Setting and …

These studies investigated the effects of 2 weeks of either a high-fat (HIGH-FAT: 70% fat, 7%
CHO) or a high-carbohydrate (HIGH-CHO: 74% CHO, 12% fat) diet on exercise performance …

Presents a summary of results from studies on soccer players, which investigated the daily
energy expenditures, diets, physical characteristics and effect of nutritional supplements to …