{"id":7844,"date":"2019-04-04T13:49:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T13:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/?p=7844"},"modified":"2019-04-04T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T13:50:22","slug":"hawks-athletes-acknowledge-link-between-nutrition-and-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/?p=7844","title":{"rendered":"Hawks Athletes Acknowledge Link Between Nutrition and Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the past many professional athletes and sport organizations ignored the benefits that come with healthy eating. Athletes did not put an emphasis on even training for the upcoming season.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>But within the last two decades<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0the correlation between\u00a0<\/span>on-field success<\/span>, with\u00a0<\/span>nutrition<\/span>\u00a0and<\/span>\u00a0training\u00a0<\/span>has not only been acknowledged<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0but embraced.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>T<\/span>hese effects have started to drip\u00a0<\/span>into amateur athletics.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>David Sigmund<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0a varsity baseball player f<\/span>or Humber\u00a0<\/span>C<\/span>ollege acknowledges the effect eating properly has had on his<\/span>\u00a0performance\u00a0<\/span>on the court, as well as<\/span>\u00a0his lifestyle.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201cHaving set eating plans in place throughout the course of the day puts you in the best place to succeed not only during competition but also dur<\/span>ing training and any other coaching sessions.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Sigmund\u00a0<\/span>is\u00a0<\/span>a third-year sports management student at Humber\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>he\u00a0<\/span>says that this is a day<\/span>-to-<\/span>day process.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201cMy day consists of a regular breakfast, lunch and dinner but also periodically having small healthy snacks th<\/span>roughout the day to keep me energized. This is usually something as simple as sliced fruit or\u00a0<\/span>some kind of granola<\/span>\u00a0bar.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Shawn Rooke, a former junior hockey player and a Humber College athlete says eating nutritious foods can help when training as\u00a0<\/span>well.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201cEating nutrient dense foods provide me with vitamins and minerals which allow my muscles and body to recover so I can continuously train 5 to 6 days per week.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Rooke, who is also a sports management student says that nutrients are not the only ben<\/span>efits of eating healthy.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201cMonitoring food intake plays a huge role, which assists me to gain, maintain or lose weight during any point in a season\u201d.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Andrew Blakey, a varsity volleyball player at Humber College says that while he doesn\u2019t know how direct<\/span>ly eating properly translates to the volleyball court, he does know how it helps his body.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201cI do notice a massive change if I go a week of eating poorly. I feel sluggish, lazy, and lethargic.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Blakey, a fourth<\/span>–<\/span>year kinesiology student at Guelph Humber s<\/span>ays he has been trying to eat clean for about five years now. He says that the summer is when he\u00a0<\/span>is able to<\/span>\u00a0consistently maintain good eating habits.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201cDuring the summer I have a lot more time to prepare meals as I am not in\u00a0<\/span>school,<\/span>\u00a0so I am able to devote\u00a0<\/span>a lot more time to eating properly.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>As with all athletes and those who eat healthily, there are always cheat or slip days. Rooke says that for him those are planned.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201cMost frequently, those cheat meals occur shortly after the season, and just before the offseason. Throughout those weeks, it is our least intense phase, and we are encouraged to relax after a long season.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/span>When asked about their\u00a0<\/span>favourite<\/span>\u00a0cheat meals<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0bot<\/span>h Rooke and Sigmund offered similar meals.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201cMy\u00a0<\/span>favourite<\/span>\u00a0cheat meal would be either some honey garlic chicken wings or a bacon cheeseburger.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Rooke<\/span>\u00a0s<\/span>aid<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Sigmund added,\u00a0<\/span>\u201c<\/span>t<\/span>here is not much better than getting to sit back and watch some kind of sporting event with some bu<\/span>ddies while enjoying some pizza and wings\u201d.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the past many professional athletes and sport organizations ignored the benefits that come with healthy eating. Athletes did not put an emphasis on even training for the upcoming season.\u00a0 \u00a0But within the last two decades,\u00a0the correlation between\u00a0on-field success, with\u00a0nutrition\u00a0and\u00a0training\u00a0has not only been acknowledged,\u00a0but embraced.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0These effects have started to drip\u00a0into amateur athletics.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0David Sigmund,\u00a0a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":7845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[174,141,47,1,62],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}