Athlete's diet

A healthy diet and adequate is one of the factors that most contribute to the realization of an optimal fitness and athletic performance of a maximum able to face the challenges of training and competition. The athletic activity must be considered a particular activity by dietary point of view only if carried out at a competitive level: in this case prevails significantly muscular exercise and commitment psychic normal activity.

A menu poor in nutrients, for a misguided sense of slim and beautiful or because they do not know the nutritional value of foods and their relationships, may be impaired by an adequate energy intake and may compromise the construction of that muscle tone that the activity physics should lead to an athlete. The diet is planned to provide, through food, the molecules useful for performing the physiological functions of the athlete, to promote an increase in muscle mass, to optimize physical work and replenish losses due to physical and mental stress of the athlete. Is placed, then, particular attention to the adequacy of energy intake of diet in relation to the specific sport, the specific composition in nutrients and nutritional modulation of the various stages of the sports program: athletic training, the race, the recovery.

These purposes are met through the proposed diets that allow distributing the food ration during the day so as not to interfere with the hours of training, which take account of the event that they are competitive and at the same time welcome and easy to digest. The diet program is also built to cope with the multiple nutritional needs of the athlete in order to promote and maintain a high level of psychological well-being, essential to excel in any sport. This includes the analysis of individual anthropometric characteristics and evaluation of specific training programs, and the planning of competitive commitments

It 'also possible to perform a genetic test that allows you to enhance the results of the work in the gym on the basis of the analysis of changes in the DNA sequence that are responsible for individual responses to nutrients. The extraction kit, totally non-invasive, it ships on line and is made with the collection of a saliva sample with a suitable buffer.