Estrategias nutricionales para la competición en el fútbol

Abstract

Nutritional strategies are one of basic fundaments of performance in sports. In soccer, like in the majority of professional sports, nutritional control of players is very important. This work presents a general proposal of the structure of the diet for training and the competition based in caloric disassociation, to achieve muscular surcharge of carbohydrates. Nutritional strategies based in the disassociation of the diet, according to metabolic needs of the competition and the training have demonstrated a great efficacy in performance improvement of players. Numerous studies report about metabolic needs of soccer during a game and during training. It has been demonstrated than the super-compensation of carbohydrates is the most effective nutritional strategy.