Book offers tips on how to eat like football stars
PROFESSOR OFFERS TOP TIPS – WITH THE HELP OF CITY BOSS
HOW nutrition can improve sporting performance is the subject of a new book by an academic – with a contribution from Leicester City boss Brendan Rodgers.
Professor Michael Gleeson said Nutrition for Top Performance in Football: Eat Like the Pros and Take Your Game to the Next Level “is intended to be a great resource for anyone interested in the beautiful game and one that can help the amateur player improve their own performance and recovery”.
The Loughborough University academic said: “The aim of this book is to explain the science underpinning the food, drink and supplement choices of professional footballers and how nutrition influences their match-day performance, training, and recovery.”
He said the book describes what elite footballers are advised to eat and drink by nutrition experts and explains the science, “sharing with us what the top professional players are doing in terms of their nutrition – and why”.
The book includes latest nutritional guidelines, covers specific needs of female players, match officials and explains the requirements for junior players.
There are example recipes from two top performance chefs who regularly prepare meals for elite players and snacks for training, match and recovery days.
Prof Gleeson said there are also amusing anecdotes about the history of football nutrition and some of the obscure and even absurd food and drink choices that professional footballers have made over the years.
Brendan Rodgers, who wrote the foreward, said: “Nutrition for Top Performance in Football is a fantastic resource for anyone looking to improve their knowledge and understand the effect that nutrition can have on performance.”
The book is available to order this month at shops and online retailers.
THERE is one very obvious difference in these photos taken close to four decades apart.
In the 1980s, St Matthew’s, in Leicester, is dominated by two tower blocks. Today, as the photo, above, shows, the street scene is rather more low-rise.
In 2001, the Mercury reported that a consortium of developers and housing chiefs had been formed to try to breathe new life into the estate, as work got under way to remove the twin tower blocks off Malabar Road.
The city council had decided to demolish the blocks a year earlier due to a high number of vacancies and increasing repair bills.
Jaffer Kapasi, chairman of Asra Midlands, one of the partners in the regeneration scheme, said: “The project will address the needs of a deprived area in a positive way.”