Sports Nutrition: Rugby League
While the principles of healthy eating apply to athletes and non athletes alike, it is widely accepted that athletes have particular nutritional requirements for performing at their peak. Sports nutrition is a growing science, and is now a degree program in some universities. Sports nutritionists are regularly employed by professional sporting teams and clubs in an effort to ensure that athletes are doing all that is possible to fuel themselves efficiently for their activities.
Rugby League is a strenuous and physically demanding sport that is played primarily in Australia, New Zealand and England. The game is characterised by the strength, skill and speed of its players, and combines ball movement, both kicking and passing, running and heavy tackling. Teams score points by grounding the ball over their opposition’s tryline, by kicking ‘conversions’ after a try as explained here
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