Nutrition Interview

MEAL PLANNING PAGE 3

Priscilla Jorge

Nutrition BIO2010

Amy Reidenbach

Sept 20, 2015

Meal planning for athletes

List of questions to be used for planning menu for an athlete

Nutrition plays a vital role within the life of an athlete. Other than just exercising and doing all kinds of muscle building, the meal in which an athlete takes play a critical role on how the athlete performs finally (Jurek, 2012). Well, planned nutrition will, therefore, result into a boost in performance while poorly planned nutrition will result into the vice versa. Some of the major questions to be used for planning menu for an athlete is listed below:

· How is the athlete supposed to plan his or her nutrition on a daily basis for better performance in the field?

· How can an athlete’s diet or nutrition plan be made as perfect as possible?

· What should form part of the major and part of minor constituents of the athlete’s diet?

· Which is the most efficient way of planning meals while ensuring none is missing within the plan?

· Which is the best way an athlete can adopt in making sure he/she has that time to make the next meal?

· What are the options in case the athlete has no time to prepare his meals?

The questions stated above play central roles in ensuring one can develop the most appropriate nutrition plan for an athlete.

Profile for an endurance athlete

Endurance athletes usually have a unique ability in terms of their physical bodies and their minds and how they think (Cassel & Linne, 2011). The following is an example of a profile for an endurance athlete:

Gender: Male

Competitive event: Endurance event

Height: 170cm

Weight: 74kgs

Body composition: 17% fat mass

Muscle fibre type: Type I

VO2max: 83.7ml/kg/min

Anaerobic power: 10.65W.kg

Energy expenditure: 1900kcal/d

One day menu plan

Breakfast	Training Meals and Snacks	Lunches and Dinner
Eggs, oatmeal, peanut butter mixed with grain bagel, fresh fruit such as bananas, yogurt, pancakes and flax meal.	Fruit shake, cottage cheese, raisins, peanuts, vegetables, roasted beef and cereals combined with milk.	Vegetables, wheat bread, meat, lentil soup, pasta, a salad that has oil based dressing and also wheat crust (Hoffman & Jay, 2009).

References

Cassel, M. & Linne, K. (2011). Journal of nutrition supplement.

Jurek, Scott (2012). Eat and Run. London: Bloomsbury.

Hoffman, G. & Jay, R. (2009). Examination of a pre-exercise, high energy supplement on exercise performance. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition