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A Glimpse of the Sports Nutrition Awareness in Spanish Basketball Players
Basketball is a team sport, with many fans and practitioners worldwide from all ages and levels. In all cases, players accumulate high levels of fatigue, and there is also limited time to recover between games or practices. In particular, nutrition plays a key role in optimizing performance and reco...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8746623/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010902 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14010027 |
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author | Escribano-Ott, Ignacio Mielgo-Ayuso, Juan Calleja-González, Julio |
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description | Basketball is a team sport, with many fans and practitioners worldwide from all ages and levels. In all cases, players accumulate high levels of fatigue, and there is also limited time to recover between games or practices. In particular, nutrition plays a key role in optimizing performance and recovery. However, it is typical to observe erroneous nutritional behaviors among basketball players. It has been theorized that these behaviors are influenced by habits acquired based on the individual’s knowledge. Therefore, the main aim of this study was to conduct a descriptive research of the sports nutrition knowledge and practices in a sample of Spanish basketball players, from athletes under 18 years old (n = 69) to nonprofessional (n = 14) and professional adult players (n = 21). The sample was comprised of 49 men and 55 women. This was a transversal, cross-sectional, observational and descriptive study. All participants (n = 104) completed an anonymous online survey in order to analyze their sports nutrition knowledge and practices. In view of the obtained results, we can conclude that the knowledge of sport-specific nutrition in players under 18 years old, as well as non-professional and professional adult basketball players, is insufficient through all the categories and levels. The lack of professional support and time management difficulties were identified as some of the main barriers. |
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spelling | pubmed-87466232022-01-11 A Glimpse of the Sports Nutrition Awareness in Spanish Basketball Players Escribano-Ott, Ignacio Mielgo-Ayuso, Juan Calleja-González, Julio Nutrients Article Basketball is a team sport, with many fans and practitioners worldwide from all ages and levels. In all cases, players accumulate high levels of fatigue, and there is also limited time to recover between games or practices. In particular, nutrition plays a key role in optimizing performance and recovery. However, it is typical to observe erroneous nutritional behaviors among basketball players. It has been theorized that these behaviors are influenced by habits acquired based on the individual’s knowledge. Therefore, the main aim of this study was to conduct a descriptive research of the sports nutrition knowledge and practices in a sample of Spanish basketball players, from athletes under 18 years old (n = 69) to nonprofessional (n = 14) and professional adult players (n = 21). The sample was comprised of 49 men and 55 women. This was a transversal, cross-sectional, observational and descriptive study. All participants (n = 104) completed an anonymous online survey in order to analyze their sports nutrition knowledge and practices. In view of the obtained results, we can conclude that the knowledge of sport-specific nutrition in players under 18 years old, as well as non-professional and professional adult basketball players, is insufficient through all the categories and levels. The lack of professional support and time management difficulties were identified as some of the main barriers. MDPI 2021-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8746623/ /pubmed/35010902 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14010027 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Escribano-Ott, Ignacio Mielgo-Ayuso, Juan Calleja-González, Julio A Glimpse of the Sports Nutrition Awareness in Spanish Basketball Players |
title | A Glimpse of the Sports Nutrition Awareness in Spanish Basketball Players |
title_full | A Glimpse of the Sports Nutrition Awareness in Spanish Basketball Players |
title_fullStr | A Glimpse of the Sports Nutrition Awareness in Spanish Basketball Players |
title_full_unstemmed | A Glimpse of the Sports Nutrition Awareness in Spanish Basketball Players |
title_short | A Glimpse of the Sports Nutrition Awareness in Spanish Basketball Players |
title_sort | glimpse of the sports nutrition awareness in spanish basketball players |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8746623/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010902 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14010027 |
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