By: Brigitte Coburn
Ponte Vedra High School
Over the last year, I slowly started eating worse and worse and exercising less and less. My typical daily food intake for the summer of ’08 was a bagel sandwich for breakfast, chicken wings and fries for lunch, a bag of chips for a snack and topped off with a [...]
by Susan M. Kleiner, PhD, RD, FACN, CNS, FISSN
“What and when you eat, day in and day out, will determine your body’s ability to recover, repair and grow. To really put your food to work for you, timing and combining of foods, meals and supplements will maximize mental and physical training and recovery.” …Dr. [...]
Any of us that have had an early game or workout know that it is often difficult to decide what to eat and when to eat before a contest like that. Experts will all tell us that in order to get the most out of your body you want to eat 3-4 hours before the [...]
One of the most difficult things as an athlete is determining what your caloric intake should be. There are so many factors that can go into the calorie equation and everywhere you turn someone is telling you something different. Luckily sports nutritionist Dr. Susan Kleiner has tackled this issue first hand for sportsgist.com and has [...]