Football pre season and nutrition

chrriis971
chrriis971 Posts: 65 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Just about to start pre season training for football, looking for any nutrition advice. What should I be eating, drinking and when.
Rough stats are:
-Height:6ft 2
-weight:12.5 stone.
-body fat: somewhere around the 15% mark.

Thanks!

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  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,097 Member
    (1) What position?
    (2) How old are you?
    (3) Do you have a goal in mind?
    (4) Does the team not have a physical conditioning trainer to give you a goal?
    (5) Football as in soccer, or football as in American football?
  • chrriis971
    chrriis971 Posts: 65 Member
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    (1) What position?
    (2) How old are you?
    (3) Do you have a goal in mind?
    (4) Does the team not have a physical conditioning trainer to give you a goal?
    (5) Football as in soccer, or football as in American football?

    1)Position: right/left wing.
    2)Age:20
    3)Goal would be to get as fit as possible in a short space of time, with sub goals of putting on lean muscle mass as well as increasing speed.

    4) not at the moment no, unfortunately.

    5) football:soccer
  • LyndaBSS
    LyndaBSS Posts: 6,964 Member
    Why don't you ask your coach?
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,097 Member
    Just about to start pre season training for football, looking for any nutrition advice. What should I be eating, drinking and when.

    I'd recommend consuming your TDEE plus about 200 kcal, in a well-rounded, nutritionally-dense diet with plenty of protein and whole plant foods, and drinking water, milk (if you tolerate it), tea, coffee and/or diet coke (unless you're doing a lot of hard workouts already, especially in heat), and occasionally juice. "When" doesn't really matter.

    But at 20 years old and 15% BF, you (1) can probably get away with eating and drinking a fair amount of food that isn't nutritionally dense and (2) are already pretty fit so whatever you've been doing is working.

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