Choose a sports team/athlete of your choice and briefly discuss their energy needs based on the style of exercise they perform.
How much exercise/training per day?
How many days per week?
What is the intensity?
Is it outside or inside activity?
Cardio, strength training, conditioning, etc?
Develop a 1-day meal plan for an athlete of the team.
What is the goal of the athlete?
Lose weight?
Gain weight?
Lean out?
Improve performance?
The athlete’s age, weight, height, & BMI should all be given
Calculate the athlete’s RMR using the St. Mifflin Jeor Method and also calculate activity level to get total calories
Include meal times, serving sizes of each food, exercise mode, length of exercise, training/exercise times, etc.
Once your meal plan is developed, use your own knowledge, a computer software program or a website like www.myfitnesspal.com or www.sparkpeople.com to analyze dietary composition
Provide the day’s total calories and percentages of the three major macronutrients and justification for the mount of each in the athlete’s meal plan
This project should be no longer than two pages. If you use ANY book, research article or website to create your plan, the reference MUST be given.
Meal plans should be original; DO NOT copy or use another source’s diet or plan.
I have put an example of what it should look like down below. It’s the first file below.
The other two files are assignments that I had to do for this assignment. So you can see the athlete I chose and the information I have already had to gather for him.
