TRAINING ADVICE
We know that caffeine does many wonderful things, the more obvious ones including improved mood, cognition, and exercise performance. We also know that short periods of sleep (naps) – with and without sleep deprivation – can improve mood, sleepiness, and some types of exercise performance.
As we touched on in the last post, protein quality plays a key role in determining resistance exercise-induced muscle hypertrophy (muscle growth), as well as recovery from training.
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You know that feeling of tenderness that you get in your hamstrings and quads after a hard game or training session? That’s called delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS for short). DOMS is a result of muscle damage.
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Given the demands of football training and match play, the aim of creatine supplementation would be to:
1. Enhance repeated-sprinting ability
2. Improve football-specific skills (e.g. dribbling; jumping; passing; shooting)
3. Enhance cognitive ability (e.g. decision making; passing accuracy)
Nutritional considerations for female players.
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