Learning about nutrition and how it affects the body is very important. Subtle, and some not so subtle, changes in your diet can directly impact your performance in a multitude of ways. During the offseason by helping you put on muscle, during the season by helping you maintain your muscle, and on game day to give you the energy you need will not making you uncomfortable.
Because Wikipedia is one of the best free online sources for information today, I’m pointing you their way for this post. (Please, use Wikipedia intelligently. Most of this information is general knowledge. Read what I list below. Some of the stuff may be confusing as to how it connects to nutrition (such as aerobic and anaerobic exercise), but it does. Bear with me.
The building blocks of nutrition
Nutrition – Read the following sections: Overview, Nutrients, Carbohydrates, Fat, Protein, Water, and the entire sports nutrition section.
Calorie – Read the overview.
Energy, and how/when our body uses it
ATP – Read the overview.
Aerobic respiration – Read the overview and the aerobic respiration part to glycolysis.
Anaerobic respiration – Read the overview.
Aerobic exercise – Read the overview, aerobic vs anaerobic exercise, and aerobic capacity.
Anaerobic exercise – Read the overview and lactate threshold.
