...As an athlete, you need to look at all aspects of the game. Therefore, it is up to you to insure that your game has all the fuel and power behind it to allow you to succeed quickly and effectively. To get started, read through our ebook and learn what you are missing. Then, move to using these elements in your everyday life, by adding them in as you go. You should 6 expect it to be hard work. But, when you implement the changes you find here, you can also expect to find results. It is recommended that you spend some time at least talking with your doctor to insure that your health is at an optimal level before playing any sport or changing your diet drastically. Additionally, if you are facing any physical challenges or taking medications, insure that it is safe for you to follow these recommendations...

...Something that is often misunderstood is the reason why there is not just one diet out there that is used for sports nutrition. If you need certain amounts of foods, specific foods and at the same time, wouldn’t everyone be able to follow the same plan along the way? The answer to this is no. Each and every one of us has a very different body make up. In that, we need various amounts and specific planning in our food consumption. Another contributing factor to this is our age. Let’s face it. Our needs change as we age and our bodies need us to provide them with foods to compensate for those needs. 10 Even when you are young and fit your body needs something different as you age. Additionally, the race that you are matters too. Various cultures need various types of foods, minerals and vitamins. Remember, bodies developed over time in various ways...

...If you lose 2% of your body’s fluid, your overall performance will considerably drop. If you lose 5% of your body’s fluid, you can find yourself facing heat exhaustion, which is not good. Now, you are barely moving. If you lose 10% of your body’s fluid, you are at risk for heat stroke and even death through dehydration. In other words, game over...

...Vegetables are ideal. You will get many of your nutrients like vitamins and minerals from vegetables. You need an all around good variety of foods to fit this need. To balance what you eat, try to eat lots of different colors and look for dark colors for more benefit. You should have five servings of vegetables per day which is about half of a cup of raw or cooked vegetables, one cup of leafy vegetables or six ounces of juice. Great choices in vegetables include tomatoes, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts for their high levels of vitamin C. For vitamin C, go with carrots, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, greens, and spinach. Darker colors, like dark greens, deep reds, oranges and yellows are ideal for a good overall nutritional value...

...We hear a lot about carbohydrates today. Often, they are called bad and unhealthy. Yet, this is not true. Go back to an analogy of the team. As a team, nutrients work together but if you take one away or lessen the amount you eat of it, you drastically lessen the quality of the rest of the team. In this case, you need to realize that it is necessary for your body to have the carbohydrates that it needs to power through your body’s demands. Carbohydrates are nothing short of essential. As you will learn here and throughout this ebook, the best thing that you can do is to provide your body with the right type of food. So, while we say carbohydrates are good, that does not mean that any carbohydrate are good...