Showing posts with label Performance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Performance. Show all posts

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Sport Nutrition for Children For Improved Performance


Observing proper sport nutrition for children is not just beneficial for enhancing their sports performance, but also for ensuring they stay healthy. Parents must therefore take an active role in overseeing what food components are included in your child's diet to ensure that it will foster their development, growth, and performance at their chosen sport.

Importance of Balanced Nutrition for Active Children

You need to have a good understanding of what makes up a good nutritional diet to be able to provide for your child's nutritional needs. You cannot expect your child to be healthy physically and mentally unless they get the right nutrition that their body needs.

The key factor to remember here is to make sure they get balanced nutrition. Meaning, they must consume food from all the basic food groups as part of their daily diet. There are three groups that must be equally consumed as part of their daily meal plan: grain group (such as rice, pasta, or bread), dairy foods (such as cheese, milk, and yogurt), and fruits and vegetables. Make sure to provide protein foods such as fish, meat, and poultry as it helps to nourish the muscles and provide energy needed by the body to perform sports.

There are various conceptions of what a good nutrition is and intake recommendations for each child could largely vary. But the main idea is to provide a variety of foods from each food group to ensure that all essential nutrients are acquired as part of sport nutrition for children.

Nutritional Issues to Consider

Children involved in sports need additional nutrition to ensure they remain healthy whilst boosting their sports performance. However, there are significant nutritional issues that are involved in sports nutrition. Make sure you address them to help your child stay competitively active.

Each issue is discussed in more detail below.

Timing of Intake

When it comes to sport nutrition for children, it is not just about the amount of nutrients and vitamins that one can intake. The timing of intake could also create a major impact. Children are recommended to have 5 or 6 meals per day made up of three big meals and two or three snack meals. This is ideal for maintaining the appropriate energy levels in their body to perform their sports activities.

Appropriate Hydration

As children sweat during sports activities, they lose essential fluids from the body. It is therefore important to stay hydrated by ensuring that your body has enough essential fluids. Children (as are adults) are encouraged to drink plenty of water and make sure to drink during break to replenish the hydration which has been lost. Aside from water, drinking sports fluids are sometimes recommended, depending on the level of activity, as they contain electrolytes. But note they should not be considered as a permanent alternative to water and have may have a high sugar content.

Refueling

No matter how much water they drink, children can sweat a lot during sports and it is important to rehydrate as required.

According to health experts, eating a meal or snack after the athletic activity is recommended to refuel your body. Ensure the snack contains protein and carbohydrates for proper refueling. This is an important tip for parents who wanted to ensure proper sport nutrition for children because it also prepares the body for future sports activities.

If you are ever in doubt, or require more tailored advice, you can contact a dietitian, family doctor or the school/club sports trainer and/or coach.




Janelle Farley is a qualified sport management professional who is passionate about everyone, particularly children, leading a healthy and active lifestyle. She invites you to visit [http://www.juniorsportsecrets.com] to find out more about how you can motivate your children to lead happy and healthy lives.





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Monday, January 2, 2012

Performance Nutrition - Perform Better, Every Day of the Week!


Nutrition is often the unsung hero of increasing an individual's performance. In fact, I would go as far as to say that without good nutrition you cannot even begin to successfully increase your levels of performance, whether it's in daily life or in sport. There are many factors, from a nutritional perspective, that need to be in place even before you can start to increase your performance.

Try increasing your recovery ability with impaired gut function. You will not even begin to absorb all the high quality food you might be consuming and the expensive supplements that you are knocking back all because your nutrition is not in check. So when it comes to performance nutrition it might actually be a case of stripping the individual back to basics. So does the person in question have good nutrient absorption, a strong immune system, an adequate sleep pattern and enough de-stress time? If not then what are the chances of them increasing their levels of performance through increases in training volume and frequency. This is usually when players get ill, crash and burn, all because their nutrition and lifestyle are not in check.

So performance nutrition might in fact be a cloak and dagger word, but there are obviously factors of performance nutrition that do lend themselves to increases in someone's physical performance. So let's say we are working with an individual that has all the above in check, then we can look to increase their physical and mental performance with the aid of nutrition, including food and supplements. Of course there are many ways to coax the body into the environment that you want it to perform in. Specific food and specific supplements at certain times can signal the body to perform in a certain way. A perfect example of this would be during the post workout recovery period, a time where nutrients are partitioned in a certain way, when provided in the right proportions, into the muscle to preferentially induce a greater anabolic and recovery effect.

So really the above is a prime example of performance nutrition. Such a nutritional strategy thus increases someone's performance through increasing the body's ability to recovery quicker. After all recover quicker and we can train sooner, which then, over time, leads to greater overall increases in performance as more training practice has been performed. But what must not happen in performance nutrition strategies is skip one phase before the other. There is no point in giving an individual X, Y and Z supplement if their gut health is currently impaired. Much of the consumed supplements might be going to waste through poor absorption, so it would make sense to repair the gut, then build on top of that, as in theory you will then observe two increases in performance, one from re-building the gut and another from the targeted supplement use.

So of course there is a place for fancy supplements and specific foods to increase the performance of an individual at the right times, but there are essentials that have to be in place first. In essence you could liken performance nutrition to the art of building a house. Rock solid foundations have to be in place first before you build your fancy architectural sculpture on top. Now that is the art of performance nutrition.




Ben Coomber consults with MMA, rowing, rugby and physique athletes at various levels. Consults for UK tennis, and owns and runs Body Type Nutrition. He is an Internationally Certified Sports Nutritionist and trainer.

Sports nutrition consultations: http://www.bodytypenutrition.co.uk

Author website: http://www.bencoomber.com





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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Efficient Management Can Improve Business Performance

Businesses must make certain that their managers are completely competent or face a drop in profits due to decreased employee productivity.

Research by the Chartered Management Institute revealed that bad British managers were costing the economy billions of pounds due to lost working hours caused by their inefficiencies.

A large majority of employees waste numerous working hours on a weekly basis thanks to their managers providing poor communication as well as a lack of direction and support.

Businesses can combat these inefficient management practices by ensuring that their managers possess a professional management qualification or by providing them with appropriate training on a regular basis.

Employing managers who are not properly trained or qualified can result in a poorly performing workplace as an efficient working culture is created through the actions of senior employees.

Managers are more likely to make mistakes which will damage the performance levels of other employees if they have not undergone appropriate training to achieve a qualification.

Businesses must understand the potential financial implications of employing inefficient managers during the current economic climate where profits are being hit by decreasing consumer confidence.

Untrained managers are also more likely to exhibiting discriminatory behaviour towards employees which can be construed as bullying because they are unaware of the legal consequences of their inappropriate actions.

Managers that behave inappropriately towards workers risk bringing about expensive employee tribunals which can seriously damage the reputation of a business in the immediate and long-term.

Efficient, modern management is a world away from the macho methods associated with the 1980s and 90s as well as reality television programmes such as The Apprentice and Dragons' Den, which is something businesses should realise.

High-performing businesses require an efficient and effective work culture that is based on a foundation of transparent decisions, good communications and gender diversity.

Effective and regular communication with employees can help managers embrace new ideas and input from across a company which can improve business performance.

Properly trained managers who are adept at communication will know when employees have under-used skills or expertise which can enhance how a business operates.

Quality candidates are also likely to be attracted to and stay with an organisation where managers are trained about bullying and gender discrimination issues that can occur in the workplace.

Performance improvement consulting experts can help an organisation enhance their processes and ultimately increase productivity through the application of systems thinking business theory.

Himsworth Consultancy is a leading Management Consultancy firm of senior business and peformance improvement consulting professionals that can improve customer service through systems thinking. Click the links to learn more.


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Monday, December 12, 2011

Efficient Management Can Improve Business Performance

Businesses must make certain that their managers are completely competent or face a drop in profits due to decreased employee productivity.

Research by the Chartered Management Institute revealed that bad British managers were costing the economy billions of pounds due to lost working hours caused by their inefficiencies.

A large majority of employees waste numerous working hours on a weekly basis thanks to their managers providing poor communication as well as a lack of direction and support.

Businesses can combat these inefficient management practices by ensuring that their managers possess a professional management qualification or by providing them with appropriate training on a regular basis.

Employing managers who are not properly trained or qualified can result in a poorly performing workplace as an efficient working culture is created through the actions of senior employees.

Managers are more likely to make mistakes which will damage the performance levels of other employees if they have not undergone appropriate training to achieve a qualification.

Businesses must understand the potential financial implications of employing inefficient managers during the current economic climate where profits are being hit by decreasing consumer confidence.

Untrained managers are also more likely to exhibiting discriminatory behaviour towards employees which can be construed as bullying because they are unaware of the legal consequences of their inappropriate actions.

Managers that behave inappropriately towards workers risk bringing about expensive employee tribunals which can seriously damage the reputation of a business in the immediate and long-term.

Efficient, modern management is a world away from the macho methods associated with the 1980s and 90s as well as reality television programmes such as The Apprentice and Dragons' Den, which is something businesses should realise.

High-performing businesses require an efficient and effective work culture that is based on a foundation of transparent decisions, good communications and gender diversity.

Effective and regular communication with employees can help managers embrace new ideas and input from across a company which can improve business performance.

Properly trained managers who are adept at communication will know when employees have under-used skills or expertise which can enhance how a business operates.

Quality candidates are also likely to be attracted to and stay with an organisation where managers are trained about bullying and gender discrimination issues that can occur in the workplace.

Performance improvement consulting experts can help an organisation enhance their processes and ultimately increase productivity through the application of systems thinking business theory.

Himsworth Consultancy is a leading Management Consultancy firm of senior business and peformance improvement consulting professionals that can improve customer service through systems thinking. Click the links to learn more.


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