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Author of "Sport Nutrition for Coaches" offers nutrition advice Pittsburgh Steeler’s Sports Dietitian Leslie Bonci explains how carbohydrates aid athletes. For the full podcast, click here.
Author of Sports Nutrition for coaches explains what to eat and drink to be bikini-ready According to Leslie Bonci, author of Sport Nutrition for Coaches, cutting back on low carb snacks can help you achieve a flatter stomach. To read the full article, click here.
Dr. Leslie Bonci, sport nutritionist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, provides valuable insights and tips on keeping athletes hydrated and fueled to maximize performance and avoid heat-related illnesses. Dr. Leslie Bonci, sport nutritionist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, provides valuable insights and tips on keeping athletes hydrated to maximize performance and avoid heat-related illnesses. Leslie J. Bonci, MPH, RD, CSSD, LDN is the director of sport ...
Leslie Bonci talks with ABC’s Dr. Timothy Johnson about things teens need to know before hitting the sports practice fields. Leslie Bonci, author of Sport Nutrition for Coaches, talks to ABC’s Tim Johnson about hydration and nutrition for young athletes. Leslie J. Bonci, MPH, RD, CSSD, LDN is the director of sport nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Many people mistakenly believe that low-carbohydrate diets or low-carbohydrate foods help with weight loss. Many low-carbohydrate foods are not necessarily low in calories, can be very expensive, and don’t always taste great! In addition, there is no definition for low carbohydrate, and many products may contain the terms net carbohydrate or net effective carbohydrate.
Tell your athletes “within 15.” You want them to eat or drink something containing calories within 15 minutes of completing exercise to optimally replete muscle and liver glycogen stores. Your athletes need to bring a bottle of sports drink or a water bottle containing a powdered sports beverage to practice. When your athletes exercise in cold weather, consuming warm foods after exercise can expedite blood flow to the extremities.
It may cause problems that impair your athletes’ performance, such as altered sleep schedules, skipped meals, dehydration (especially with air travel), food safety issues, and, if you’re traveling abroad, the availability and accessibility of familiar foods. Encourage your athletes to pack food, and if you are traveling by air remind them that they cannot bring liquids onto the plane. Because time is always at a premium when you travel, use your food coach or food scout to survey the team ...
At the scholastic level evaluations from coaches taking our Coaching Principles classroom course have reinforced the interaction among coaches as the primary advantage of classroom delivery that cannot be replicated in an online environment. The revision of Successful Coaching requires that we also update our Coaching Principles classroom and online courses, which will be released at the same time as Successful Coaching. Sticking with baseball, last fall Hawaii PONY Baseball established a ...
