Nutrition Strategies for Athletes choose a topic

This assignment requires you to identify appropriate information resources and to produce a wellsupported
review of the nutritional needs of a specific sport
You are required to prepare a mini-review of the nutritional considerations of the sport that you
have selected.
Remember that your paper needs to include an abstract and a reference list. Issues that you might
like to include in your paper include:
o Yearly training program and competition calendar in this sport
o Typical training patterns in the sport
o Overview of the nutritional requirements of training including special requirements for energy and
micronutrients
o Issues of optimum physique and how this is achieved
o Analysis of the physiological requirements of competition
o Nutritional strategies before, during and after competition that promote optimum performance
o Common nutrition problems that arise in this sport, or practical issues which interfere with
optimum eating practices
o Supplements which may promote optimum performance this sport