Endurance athletes have special needs. A lot of training, lots of exercise and the body should also be and stay healthy and strong. All this comes with proper nutrition. It's the daily nutrition which is adapted to the daily routine and the training load. What does it include? What needs to be considered? Ski Austria Magazine has looked into all this in the November issue in an article on nutrition for winter endurance sports.
In the meantime, nutrition has also become an important part of success in winter sports. Athletes pay more attention to quality, seek advice from experts on how they can optimally support their performance, and want to know which points are particularly important for their sport.
Macronutrients
Have you ever done the test? Depending on the load, the composition of the meal changes. A quick look at the plate should be enough to see how tough an athlete's training day is. The meal usually reflects what the body's needs of a day.
It is also important highlight that ideally the diet is neither restricted nor monotonous. Anyone who accommodates everything in the quantities required will also be able to supply the body with all the nutrients it needs for top performance. Details of this are addressed and optimised in nutrition consultation. In this way, the body is not only efficient, but is also best protected against injuries and overloads.
Micronutrients
The immune system is important for all athletes. Only those who are healthy can also deliver top sporting performance. Furthermore, nutrition plays an important role for overall health, as it provides all the nutrients that keep our immune system running and strengthen and build it up again and again. Anyone who fails to do this gets in trouble. For this reason, we focus on high quality foods to ensure that the micronutrient content is high. Athletes hear about this and learn how to do this in individual consultations. A selection of athlete-friendly recipes is a great tool and also important, which make practical implementation much easier.