Sentences with phrase «vegetarian or vegan athletes»

For vegetarian or vegan athletes, it is recommended to eat 1.3 - 1.8 g / kg / day protein to maintain a good protein balance.

It's important for female athletes — especially those vegetarian or vegan athletes — to source B - 12 and iron on a regular basis.

Can you be a vegetarian or vegan athlete and meet your protein needs?

Not exact matches

Hemp protein contains 50 percent protein by weight, and as such, it's an ideal plant - based source of protein for vegans, vegetarians, athletes or anyone.

Later I became a dual Olympic athlete in another sport that demanded very heavy training — while no longer vegan or vegetarian my eating habits remained mostly plant based whole foods with a little of the animal products the sports authorities demanded.

And the important take - away from this is that an endurance athlete with low creatine stores (e.g. many vegan or vegetarian endurance athletes) or an endurance athlete who has performed zero training of their phosphagenic energy system is setting themselves up to have less «kick», lower force production, and reduced ability to surge during a race when it really matters — not just when they're lifting weights at the gym.

This makes spirulina a valuable addition to a vegan or vegetarian regimen, especially among athletes and gym goers whose protein needs are higher than that of the average person.

Perhaps other less meticulous vegetarian / vegan athletes, or «junk food enthusiast» athletes) could very well be trashing their bodies while reaping medals, keeping up their performance due to workout quality, but ending up with a broken body at the end of their competitive career.

I seem to recall that switching athletes to a vegetarian or vegan way of eating to improve endurance and recovery has been known for a long time, at least the 20's.