Sports nutrition

With the sports nutrition ( sports nutrition ) to deal scientifically nutritional science, sports medicine and sports science. In addition, there are numerous empirically developed advice and recommendation of athletes, coaches and nutritionists, as well as other groups of people.

Goals of sports nutrition

Improving the training and competition performance of the athlete, as well as the support of regeneration after exercise, are the main goals of sports nutrition. It will support compiled individually to the current needs of each athlete concerning the energy content and energy composition ( short-and long-chain carbohydrates, fats, protein ), the content of vitamins, minerals and trace elements, the fluid balance and the content of dietary fiber. Here are the phases in which the athlete is (training and development phases, Vorwettkampfphase, race day, regeneration), the type of athletic stress ( endurance sports, endurance sports with high power use, martial arts, play sports, speed-strength sports), as well as the age of the find athletes (sports in childhood and adulthood, elderly or infirm ) into account.

Delineate of the allowed performance-enhancing sports nutrition are forbidden measures to improve performance ( doping). To distinguish individual products in terms of doping, there are, for example, the Cologne List, which lists the products with minimized risk of doping.

Science

At the Ruhr - University Bochum, there is a Department of Sports Medicine and Sports Nutrition, owner Petra Platen.

2003, the International Society of Sports Nutrition ( ISSN ) ( International Society of Sports Nutrition ) was founded. The company is a professional journal, the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition ( JISSN ) out.