Across
- 2. Aids Tissue repair and best consumed post performance
- 5. Eating low GI foods is beneficial at this time
- 6. Require up to 1.7g/kg of body weight of protein per day
- 7. Vegetable ideal for a meal 3 to 4 hours before competition
- 8. A high GI fruit
- 9. A period immediately before competition when the volume and intensity of training is reduced.
- 10. Lost through perspiration, includes salts and minerals such as sodium and potassium, important for many body functions such as chemical breakdown and nerve conduction.
- 13. Gels provides a quick easily digestible source of carbohydrates during performance.
- 15. A ranking system for carbohydrates based on how they affect blood sugar level.
- 17. Tomato based pasta is appropriate for this meal
Down
- 1. This sport would benefit from Carbohydrate Loading
- 3. Eating high GI foods is beneficial at this time
- 4. Technique of loading the muscles with glycogen in preparation for a high-intensity endurance activity of more than 90 minutes.
- 11. Foods that are slower to be digested and absorbed and result in more gradual rise in blood glucose levels.
- 12. A low GI meal
- 14. Foods that are rapidly digested and absorbed by the body and raise blood glucose levels quickly.
- 16. Food that could be included in a post performance meal to aid tissue repair