Thank you to Athletics Australia for this great post on Facebook!
The IAAF recently released a comprehensive guide to sports nutrition designed to offer athletes the latest information on fueling their training and performance.
The IAAF Consensus Statement on Nutrition for Athletes, published in the International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, includes a summary of the latest scientific developments relevant to athletes and 16 articles on different facets of sports nutrition.
Led by Lindy Castell from Green Templeton College at Oxford University and Louise Burke, the Head of Sports Nutrition at the Australian Institute of Sport, a team of 50 experts looked at a range of new developments in sports nutrition to see how they apply to the five core areas of athletics: sprints, jumps/throws/combined events, middle distance, long distance and ultra distance/mountain running. Their findings, divided into 12 key themes, form the backbone of the report.
Read more at
https://www.iaaf.org/news/press-release/iaaf-consensus-statement-nutrition-for-athlet
