jones wrote:
You misunderstood, I'm actually certain there is a consensus among most nutritionists that a vegan diet is not optimal. There's a huge chasm however between a perfect diet and one that causes you to be prone to injury.
How about - an insufficient diet causes you to be more prone to injury.
But anyway, within the context of football, the sufficiency of a diet and how much more prone it makes you to injury is a grey area. And that's where I would stop taking nutritionists' word as gospel.
Klaus wrote:
Another point is that I just don't think football is athletically demanding enough as a sport to get to the point where a vegan diet might have a significant impact, as long as you compensate for it accordingly. I know there's decent evidence to suggest it messes up top-end swimmers, but those people train and operate on a physical level that a football player can barely fathom.
I'd imagine it's a feature of being in water - less load on the muscles means shorter recovery times, or something like that. It's actually something I've been thinking about recently. If swimming would translate better than running to get fit for football, for myself that is.
And also, the energy systems in football are more dynamic (strength, power, cardio) than they are in swimming, so I'm not really sure how either of the above points play out in a dietary context.
"We are looking at ways of doing that for one of our players who is vegan (Bellerin), which has a similar amino acid profile, which is proving a bit of a challenge on the Informed-Sport batch-tested programme."
I was wondering if those collagen supplements were vegan. I guess if Bellerin's not taking them they're not.
And can you really tell how injury prone someone is from their blood markers?
