Are you a nutritionist endowed with the responsibility of physique and health recovery of athletes? Well, that’s a serious task no doubt and involves a lot of meticulous planning. The post below offers a brief on top nutrition tips to recover and rebuild an athlete’s health.
- Start with customized profiling of each athlete based on a comprehensive assessment to come up with the most suitable nutrition plan.
- If you don’t go for a professional test on body composition, you won’t be able to have a meaningful discussion on the athlete’s exact nutrition needs and solutions.
- Focus on athlete’s sleep rhythm, eating schedules and lifestyle to chalk out the most compatible nutrition timing and eating rhythm for him.
- Don’t be too restrictive with diet. Make sure to allow cheat meals at times
- Fasting helps but make sure that’s a calculated fasting meant to rest body after a season of high food intake.
- Added to stress on protein, your diet plan should also feature healthy fats, especially from non-animal sources.
- Aim for cumulative recovery with strategic superfoods that will help you to experience desired results on a natural pace.
- Don’t just stick to old and boring tart cherry drinks. Rather focus on more enjoying and equally healthy blackcurrant and cranberry juices.
- Allow space for body and mind relaxation. Beetroot juice 2 hours ahead of bedtime is amazing. You can also suggest them to go for BandarQ to relax their mind.
- Diet chart should include good doses of Omega 3.
- Focus on high quality local-sourced meats like pork, lamb, beef and chicken.
- Don’t forget fresh veggies and fruits.
- Test saliva, blood as well as other biochemicals to evaluation nutrition program.