Today there was an article on Andy Murry's (a tennis player) diet. What I can't understand why he is having "Ninety minutes before his match...... a plateful of chicken and rice, loaded with energy-delivering protein"
I know tennis is a little different to judo but I thought you should not have proteins just before a competition but rather carbohydrates and not 90 minutes before but about three hours before, and then just snack on fruit and energy bars if necessary. Anyone have any thoughts?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/andymurray/10159973/Andy-Murrays-appliance-of-science.html
"There has never been a sportsman who has been as meticulously assembled as Andy Murray. Allied to his extraordinary natural skill and ferocious desire to win, what has carried him to his fifth successive Wimbledon semi-final is the relentless appliance of science. There is nothing in his life that is left to chance, nothing that is not measured, calibrated and balanced. This is a man whose route to the summit of his profession has been mapped with a meticulousness bordering on the obsessive.
Take his diet. He will have started eating at 7.30 this morning. While many of those arriving at Wimbledon’s press restaurant will have begun their day assaulting a tottering Himalaya of fried starch, Murray will have eaten yogurt, fruit and a bagel smeared in peanut butter.
On his way to the All England Club he will have nibbled at a protein bar and a banana. He has not always got on with bananas, incidentally. In his autobiography he described them as “pathetic fruit”. But his nutritionist recommended them as a means to deliver potassium to the system, essential to maintaining cardiovascular health. So he overcame his disdain and now eats lots of them. No longer does he describe anything as pathetic if it can help him win.
Ninety minutes before his match he will have a plateful of chicken and rice, loaded with energy-delivering protein. Then, afterwards, there will be the sushi: he eats up to 50 pieces a day. He was eating some on Wednesday evening as he spoke to the press after his quarter-final victory over Fernando Verdasco. The mix of protein and carbohydrate without a hint of fat is reckoned the perfect way to replenish physical resources after an intense physical workout. So much of the stuff does he consume that he may be single-handedly responsible for the diminution of the world’s tuna stocks."
I know tennis is a little different to judo but I thought you should not have proteins just before a competition but rather carbohydrates and not 90 minutes before but about three hours before, and then just snack on fruit and energy bars if necessary. Anyone have any thoughts?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/andymurray/10159973/Andy-Murrays-appliance-of-science.html
"There has never been a sportsman who has been as meticulously assembled as Andy Murray. Allied to his extraordinary natural skill and ferocious desire to win, what has carried him to his fifth successive Wimbledon semi-final is the relentless appliance of science. There is nothing in his life that is left to chance, nothing that is not measured, calibrated and balanced. This is a man whose route to the summit of his profession has been mapped with a meticulousness bordering on the obsessive.
Take his diet. He will have started eating at 7.30 this morning. While many of those arriving at Wimbledon’s press restaurant will have begun their day assaulting a tottering Himalaya of fried starch, Murray will have eaten yogurt, fruit and a bagel smeared in peanut butter.
On his way to the All England Club he will have nibbled at a protein bar and a banana. He has not always got on with bananas, incidentally. In his autobiography he described them as “pathetic fruit”. But his nutritionist recommended them as a means to deliver potassium to the system, essential to maintaining cardiovascular health. So he overcame his disdain and now eats lots of them. No longer does he describe anything as pathetic if it can help him win.
Ninety minutes before his match he will have a plateful of chicken and rice, loaded with energy-delivering protein. Then, afterwards, there will be the sushi: he eats up to 50 pieces a day. He was eating some on Wednesday evening as he spoke to the press after his quarter-final victory over Fernando Verdasco. The mix of protein and carbohydrate without a hint of fat is reckoned the perfect way to replenish physical resources after an intense physical workout. So much of the stuff does he consume that he may be single-handedly responsible for the diminution of the world’s tuna stocks."