07/20/2022
Q: How can calorie intake influence performance?
A: Body size is directly affected by calorie intake. Calories indirectly affects performance via their influence on bodysize
Depending on your sport, your body needs to be within some margin of size for best performance!
Example: if you are the best baseball player at 200 lbs buy only eat enough calories to support a body weight of 170 lbs your diet cannot support your best baseball performance!
Therefore working on your diet and performance both need adjustments to your prioritized goal!
Optimal macronutrients amounts might change across trainingphases in a specific sport!
Being on a hypocaloric diet while training in a specific sportmight require some trade-offs in performance for diet progressand vise versa! Depending on your goals.
02/22/2022
Here are a few reasons whv in-
season training is an absolute must for any athlete looking to
play at a high level when it matters most.
Basically, if you don't use it, you lose it. The idea "you train
during the offseason, you play during the season" is
antiquated and counterproductive to high performance. The
most successful athletes I've ever personally worked with or
witnessed make in-season training a staple. This allows for a
steady increase of performance to occur over the long-term
and helps them put their best foot forward during the biggest
competitions of their calendar year.
If an athlete discontinues training and only participates in
sport-related practices, they are no longer providing the
catalyst that creates lasting changes in the body that will allow
them to be more structurally resilient and stronger in the
coming weeks. Over time, you will see a deterioration in tissue
strength while common aches and pains begin to emerge
during the middle and end of the season. This is ideally when
performance should be peaking, but the opposite is in fact
occurring.
Bottomline is that when we cease strength training, the fascial
sheath which serves as a protective barrier will diminish to a
degree, leaving the muscle more predisposed to damage.
Muscle damage, when chronic enough, can lead to eventual
injury. This is yet another reason why athletes should partake
in strength training during sport in-season to offer themselves
more insurance against potential injury.
02/22/2022