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It’s no secret. Especially for my readers and followers. Exercise researchers and sports nutritionists have known for years that carbohydrates and fats are the most important fuel for endurance. Step into the new millennium and science has discovered that blood glucose may be the most important fuel source available to soccer players. So what is [...]
Do you know how many people play soccer worldwide? The number has climbed to 138,000,000 million. Can you believe it? Soccer is the undefeated sport of the world. No other sport comes close to these kind of numbers and rightly so. Although soccer has become a mass phenomenon, most players don’t have a clue about [...]
Have you heard the saying? “You are what you eat”. Millions of people are food conscious and many of us are guilty of counting calories. The health industry is a billion dollar industry and supplies us with vitamins, proteins and pills of all shapes and sizes. At the end of the day and if you [...]
The importance of fluids in Soccer nutrition has been recognised now for over a decade. Fluids are a vital part of proper soccer nutrition. It’s with virtual certainty that fluids and proper hydration will improve your soccer performance. First, lets establish and rectify the myth that you only need to think about sports drinks on [...]
When you open up a soccer book to research certain topics, do not always take the information as being gospel or correct. There are 100′s and 1000′s of books that talk about soccer nutrition and the pre-match diet. The majority of the books I’ve read, don’t distinguish the different pre-match meals required for different times [...]