By combining evidence-based recommendations with practical, simple guidance, registered health and performance nutritionist, Laura Kealy, helps female team sport athletes improve their athletic performance and overall health. Games and matches demand players be fit and strong. They must have the endurance and mental focus for peak performance. An athlete's diet must be tailored to ensure it meets individual macroand micronutrients, fuelling and recovery requirements. That's where this book comes in!
Having spent more than 10 years supporting female athletes across a range of team sports, Laura uses her expert advice to show how to balance nutrient intake and eat for specific performance goals. With her professional guidance, players also learn the fundamentals of health and performance nutrition, how to adequately fuel for training sessions and games, how to recover optimally, how the menstrual cycle may affect performance and much more. With more than 80 delicious, healthy and simple fuelling and recovery recipes, sample training meal plans, practical advice, and specific guidance for the female team sport athlete, this book will help you eat to win!

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Laura Kealy is a health and performance nutritionist with more than ten years of experience working with female team sport athletes. She holds a master's in Human Nutrition and a postgraduate degree in Sport and Exercise Nutrition. Laura is also registered with the Association of Nutrition (ANutr) and the Sports and Exercise Nutrition Register (SENr). Since founding her company Bridge Nutrition in 2018, Laura has supported hundreds of female athletes, both amateur and elite, across a range of sports. Visit Laura's website, Bridgenutrition.ie, and follow her online.