This section deals with updated information and research on how nutrition and supplements effect athletic performance.

Fuel your body the right way for peak performance!
Avoid the 'Bonk'
In lay terms, 'bonking' occurs because athletes either don't eat or don't eat enough prior to intensive training or competition. When you exhaust your energy stores you feel like dirt.
Building Bigger Athletes
While the rest of the world struggles to lose a few pounds, for some athletes often the hardest thing to do is to gain weight.
Caffeine
A look at the use of caffeine as a performance enhancer for endurance athletes.
Carbohydrate Loading
Carbohydrate loading can help the endurance athlete store an increased amount of muscle glycogen for the stesses of a long distance event.
Eating Before Competing
Many competitive athletes and coaches believe that they should avoid food for several hours before competition. Others wonder if they should snack, perhaps on an energy bar, and a few are so nervous that even the thought of food is nauseating. So what is the truth?
Eating on the Road
It is tough to eat on the road when traveling as an athlete. Fast food is not always the best choice. However, there are good fast food choices you can make.
Ephedra
Ephedra is a key ingredient in a wide variety of products sold in health food stores, fitness clubs, gyms, and over the internet promising weight loss, increased energy, and better athletic performance. However, ephedra has been linked to a number of deaths and potential health problems.
Feel Full on Fewer Calories
Athletes wanting to lose body fat or maintain a low body weight often need to reduce their calorie intake. In the best of all worlds, these athletes want to consume a lower calorie diet, but not feel hungry all the time; is that possible?
Fluid Replacement
Tips concerning the proper use of water, sports drinks, and electrolytes for fluid replacement for the active athlete.
Herbal Supplements New Sports Nutrition Article!
Are you using or thinking about using an herbal supplement to help your athletic performance? If so, here are some tips.
How to Gain Weight
Five important points and strategies to help you gain weight the right way.
How Safe are Dietary Supplements?
Many products marketed as dietary supplements and claimed to be effective as aids to weight loss, weight gain, relaxation, strength improvement, mental concentration, and endurance performance are basically unregulated. There is no assurance that any supplement works as intended, is safe, or contains what is listed on the label.
Liquid Energy
Wondering if those newflangled "energy drinks" are worth the money? Maybe. Maybe not.
Nutrition and Athletic Performance
The December 2000 issue of Medicine & Science in Sport and Exercise included a comprehensive review of "Nutrition and Athletic Performance." The 16 page joint position paper is summarized here.
Nutritional Balance in Training
US Olympic Skeleton athlete Tricia Stumpf talks about the important of balance in nutrution, training, and rest to be your competitive best!
Nutrition for Female Endurance Athletes
The number of women participating in endurance sports has increased dramatically in the last 20 years. This had led to a great interest in the special needs nutritionally of female performance athletes.
Nutrition and Performance
Updated information on how nutrition effects performance. Information on diet and how nutrition effects strength. The use of protein, vitamins and mineral supplements and amino acids are discussed.
Nutrition Questions
Every athlete has questions about nutrition, and the questions are endless as they relate to athletic performance. Here are some common questions about weight - gaining, losing, using supplements and recovery.
Pre-Competition Meals
With ever changing athletic competition schedules and travel, athletes are having to make difficult decisions about what to eat before they compete.
Protein Supplements
How much protein does it really take to build muscle? Before you believe in everything you read in the "muscle magazines," read this!
Sport Nutritional Bars
You can spend a fortune on these pre-wrapped bundles of energy. Are they worth it? Some athletes swear yes, and other claim no. To help you decide here are some facts...
Supplements...Be Aware!
Some over counter nutritional supplements may not be listing all of their ingredients on the label. Taking supplements can be putting you at risk!
Supplement Uncertainity New Sports Nutrition Article!
While America's top athletes are offered free dietary supplements at U.S. Olympic Training Centers, the leader of the nations anti-doping agency tells budding Olympians to not even take a multi-vitamin.
Using Sports Drinks
Maximizing hydration is important since as little as a two percent loss of body weight by dehydration may compromise peak athletic performance.
What about Creatine?
Creatine is a hot supplement in the sports world today. What are the benefits, risks, and costs of using it.
Window of Opportunity
Sports nutritionists have for years recommended a carbohydrate rich diet for athletes. The latest research, now shows that the quality of your workout depends not just on what you eat, but when you eat it.
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