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Kasper, AM, Allan, J, Hodges, D, Catterson, P, Mason, L, Fitzpatrick, J, Grantham, N, Morton, JP, Hearris, MA and Close, GL (2024) Nutritional habits of professional team sport athletes: An insight into the carbohydrate, fluid, and caffeine habits of English Premier League football players during match play. Journal of Sports Sciences, 42 (17). pp. 1589-1596. ISSN 0264-0414
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Abstract
To better understand the in-match fuelling practices of elite football players and compare against current guidelines, we quantified the carbohydrate, fluid, and caffeine intake of players from an English Premier League club (n = 22) during 90 min of competitive match-play. Mean carbohydrate intake across match-play was 17 ± 11 g.h−1 with players demonstrating a preference towards CHO-containing fluids (58%) when compared with semi-solids (38%) and solids (14%), respectively. CHO intake was significantly lower than reported by players (17 ± 11 vs 24.8 ± 11 g.h−1, p < 0.001) during initial consultation. Fluid was ingested at a rate of 0.45 ± 0.14 L.h−1, with 54, 40 and 6% of ingested fluid coming from water, carbohydrate, and electrolyte-only solutions, respectively. The majority of players (91%) met the UEFA guidelines for fluid consumption. Of the players who consumed caffeine across match-play (55%) the average dose was 233 ± 148 mg (2.8 ± 1.1 mg.kg−1 body mass [BM]), which meets the UEFA consensus guidelines for caffeine intake. Caffeine capsules (42%) and caffeine containing fluids (30%) were the preferred format prior to the warm-up whilst caffeine gum was exclusively used prior to kick-off and during the half-time period (100%). We conclude that 81% of the total playing squad failed to meet the current UEFA CHO intake recommendations of 30–60 g.h−1, which may be attributed to the preference towards fluid-based CHOs as the chosen format of delivery.
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Soccer; carbohydrate; fluid; caffeine; Humans; Caffeine; Dietary Carbohydrates; Feeding Behavior; Drinking; Soccer; Beverages; Adult; England; Male; Young Adult; Sports Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Team Sports; Soccer; caffeine; carbohydrate; fluid; Humans; Caffeine; Dietary Carbohydrates; Soccer; Male; Young Adult; Feeding Behavior; Team Sports; Beverages; Drinking; England; Sports Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Adult; 1106 Human Movement and Sports Sciences; 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy; Sport Sciences |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC1200 Sports Medicine G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV561 Sports |
| Divisions: | Sport and Exercise Sciences |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis Group |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Nov 2024 15:37 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Nov 2024 15:45 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1080/02640414.2024.2402137 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/24723 |
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