Nutrition and football

The majority of football players succumb to fatigue towards the end of the game. The predominant cause for this decrement in performance was ascribed to glycogen depletion. Rapid glycogen replenishment was shown to be twofold greater with protein added to a CHO supplement in the initial 40 minutes. The effect of CHO-P versus CHO ingestion during short-term recovery and subsequent performance is limited. The current experimental work was aimed to examine whether the addition of protein to a CHO beverage could improve subsequent endurance capacity towards the end of a simulated football match when compared to an isocaloric CHO beverage.

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Abdullah F. Alghannam was awarded a MSc in Applied Exercise Physiology before Joining to University of Bath as a doctoral researcher. His research is centred around the interactions between nutrition and exercise and their mediating effects on the physiological and metabolic processes that may impact human recovery, performance and health.