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“Part of your training is food,” he said. Sarah Wick, an athletic consultant and director of sports nutrition at Ohio State’s College of Sports Medicine, added, “It’s just like energy and conditioning. “They need to know what food they need and when they need it.”
In a report, prepared by The New York Times, qualified athletes and nutritionists were interviewed to explain how the sponsors of the Paris Olympic Games eat breakfast. Last week, the French capital launched the Olympics, welcoming thousands of athletes to its streets who are on a strict calorie regimen to participate in the competitions.
“High performance athletes need lots of carbohydrates for energy and enough protein to repair their muscles and recover between workouts. Each event and each athlete has different needs, but everyone needs fuel, and lots of it. Although that does not mean that they only eat healthy foods,” Talya Minsberg, the author of the article and fitness expert.
In terms of respect, an anecdotal and little-known fact is that of the Racer Usain Bolt as the protagonist. The Jamaican athlete reckons he eats 100 McDonalds chicken nuggets every day of those 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, because it is clean food that you know your stomach can handle. In that participation he was awarded three gold medals.
Currently, cyclist Haley Batten He has a favorite for race days that he also eats before hard workouts: pancakes with banana and maple syrup. “They are a good source of carbohydrates,” the competitor said and explained that he usually eats between two and three hours before training or competition. He added that during cycling you need between 90 and 120 grams of carbohydrates per hour to maintain energy.
CJ Allen, 400 meter hurdles athlete, finished second in the Olympic trials to qualify for the Paris Games. Less than 15 hundredths of a second separated Allen from fourth place and only the first three qualified. Since every millisecond counts, the American runner plans his meals with precision.
The athlete admits that it combines a remarkable combination of ingredients: French press coffee, cordyceps mushrooms, MCT (or medium chain triglyceride) oil, butter and whole milk (both grass-fed, or grass-fed cows), pure vanilla extract. , Ceylon cinnamon, collagen peptides, a cocoa LMNT electrolyte pack, peppermint essential oil and local raw honey. But not only that, Allen makes his own bone broth, which he includes in his lunch after training, with 3 kilos of fatty bones with 11 other ingredients, such as celery sticks and onions.
Iranian sportsman Kasra Mehdipournejad Start your breakfast with banana pancakes with raspberries and blueberries. Three hours later, this Tae Kwon Do expert is snacking on cherries, blueberries and peaches, along with a boiled egg. It is not a small detail, that exactly one hour before the strength training session with weights, you have an espresso coffee. Competitors in this martial art are divided by weight categories, so many athletes pay special attention to what they eat.
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