Unlocking the Secrets: What Influences Athletes' Energy and Nutrient Needs?

If you think that you can use the meal plans that you have found on the internet, think again. There are various factors that influence your dietary strategies and nutritional requirements for your training or competition day. Here are some factors that can cause changes to your nutrition plans.

The Individual's Factors

• Genetics

• Gender (biological)

• Age

• Body Weight

• Fitness level or Years of experience in the sport

• Sweat rate during the various types of training sessions or competition

• The current metabolism

• Current Health status e.g. deficient in a certain nutrient, have a medical condition, etc.

• Your food preferences

• Your food tolerances
  

• The menstrual phase you are in (for biological females)

Your Nutritional Goals

• Meeting your fuel demands of the type and duration of the training session

• Reducing or delaying factors that would cause fatigue specific to the training session or competition event.

• Adapting to the training sessions

• Performing well at your competition/ Break your Personal Best

• Recover from exercises/ training session(s)/ competition

• Weight loss

• Weight gain

• Rehabilitation from injury or illness
  

The Environment that you are Training or Competing

• The weather such as exercising in the heat and humid climate versus exercising in the cold and dry climate

• The time of the year when in temperate countries

• Altitude level e.g. sea level versus on the mountain
  

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