Foundation Certificate in Soccer Nutrition
The Foundation Certificate in Soccer Nutrition provides an introduction to soccer nutrition and the fueling required to maximise player performance and recovery while reducing the
Matthew Jones
In soccer, the final match result in team games, especially association soccer, is determined by multiple factors.
One of them is players’ physical preparation which not only affects the level of physical activity of individual players and the whole team, but also the execution of players’ technical-tactical skills and performance efficiency soccer is characterized by its unique, unpredictable, intermittency profile in both training and competitive games.
Previous research has suggested that during match play, high-intensity efforts last for anything between 3.7-4.4 seconds in duration.
Furthermore, elite-level players complete significantly more sprints than their amateur counterparts (1.4±0.1 vs. 0.9±0.1%, p<0.05). Recent research has revealed a strong correlation between repeated-sprint ability and elite soccer performance.
This variance of stressors encountered during actual training and competitive match-play have shown fatigue to become a prevalent issue, especially following periods of high intensity bouts.
As a result, this investigation has been developed in order to compare the effects of sodium bicarbonate ingestion (NaHCO3) on professional and amateur soccer player’s RSA (7 x professional players: mean ±SD: age 21.7±2.1yrs; weight 79.7±9.5kg; and 7 x amateur players: mean ±SD: age 22.8±1.2yrs; weight 79.3±4.9kg).
Each player ingested 0.3g.kg-1 NaHCO or placebo microcrystalline cellulose (MC) in a randomized, double-blind, crossover order, among professional or amateur players in MC or NaHCO3 conditions pre-exercise (P>0.05).
The NaHCO3 trial revealed significantly higher post-exercise La-concentrations in professional (9.57±1.09vs. 10.77±0.90mmol/L-1) vs. amateur players (10.06±1.45 vs. 10.87±1.25 mmol/L-1).
NaHCO3 resulted in significant improvements in mean power output in sprints 2 (512.3±199.4 vs. 547.6±185.3W) and 3 (468.6±209.4 vs. 491.6±199.0W) in amateurs, but no effect in professionals.
Therefore, it may be suggested that amateur participants in soccer may benefit from NaHCO3 ingestion more than professional players as a result of their reduced physical conditioning level when compared to professional level players.
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