It's important to remember that because these athletes exercise so beyond what even a normal active person would, they generally must also supplement their diet.
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Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.
Commonly, athletes will bolster their dietary intake with everyday vitamins such as magnesium and iron as well as more exotic products such as whey protein, creatine, carnitine and branched-chain amino acids specifically aimed at improving performance and recovery time.
An athlete's diet is a complicated thing.
Athletes, like everyone else, at times take supplements but just have to consult your doctors and work on that. It's a process, but it's achievable... It's my job to be healthy.
As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
There are a lot of great athletes who stop working out, and they get out of shape like everybody else in their 30s and 40s.
Much in the way Olympic athletes optimize their game by paying an enormous - borderline maniacal - amount of attention to things like diet, exercise, sleep, and of course the essential R&R, we all would do well to pay more attention to those key aspects of our lives that comprise our overall health equation.
I think the two most important parts of any athlete's workouts are his leg workouts and his core training.
At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do when you're preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games - you just do it. You're more inclined to eat healthier because it's better for your muscles.
There is one thing on which most athletes and experts seem to agree. If you want to be an elite athlete, good nutrition at a young age is an important place to start.
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