Describe and explain the importance of energy balance in relation to a sports performer

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Unit 10 - Nutrition

Describe and explain the importance of energy balance in relation to a sports performer – P4, M2, and D1

Energy is expended in a number of different ways such as resting metabolic rate, thermic effect of activity, thermic effect of feeding and adaptive thermogenisis.

Your energy balance is the balance of calories consumed through eating and drinking compared to calories burned through physical activity. What you eat and drink is energy in. What you burn through physical activity is energy out.

You burn a certain number of calories just by breathing air and digesting food. You also burn a certain number of calories through your daily routine.

An important part of maintaining energy balance is the amount of physical activity that you do. People, who are physically active, burn more calories than people who are not as physically active.

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A sports person would want to be in balance when they are at their normal training day and not looking so massive gains. This is mainly referring to any sports person who wants to stay at their optimum weight.

When they would want to make massive gains in their training they would want to be at a negative energy balance so they are giving out more calories than taking in. A sporting example for this would be someone playing in a weight category sport and need to lose weight quickly.

On a day when the athlete is playing a ...

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