The wise athletes adopted a resource that they usually took exercise slowly few weeks before the game. Then, when his coach started to make him have a strict training, he had already been very strong and could do any exercise at any time.

This was especially true if the runners had meals as the normal recipe for athletes all the time. The most of nutrition principles mentioned in chapter 14 applied to young runners. However, many young people found it difficult to use these principles consistently. They always ate some snacks such as potato chips, soft drinks salty beef and so on, and they usually did not eat breakfast when they were in a hurry in the morning. If you were a young athlete, you should avoid developing this habit. Although the food like the salty beef would increase your calories, they had little nutritional value. Do not eat breakfast could make you have no energy when you were in need. Nutritionists said that a third of a person’s energy should be assimilated in the morning.

If you were a girl, you should eat foods which contained high iron in order to compensate for the iron which was lost during the menstruation. It was a convenient method to obtain the nutrients by eating more livers and vegetables of which leaves were dark green. It was also very significant for girls to adhere to proper eating habits. Richard and Joseph wrote in the book “Nutrition and Athletes” that, men’s development had already reach to the healthiest level when they were eighteen or early twenties. Women’s would be the peak when they were adolescence and 15 or 16 years old. Starting from this peak age, the health status would continue to decline unless you maintained through proper exercise and diet.

Everyman thought that it was useless for adult runners to have the diet a few hours before the race. There was still some doubt for young athletes. Some authorities said that children whose age was fifteen and under fifteen years old should not eat food four hours before the game. Some people did not agree with this idea including Dr. Robert Craig in Florida. He had been a compulsory doctor for the school team, Pope, Werner and youth baseball team all the time. He recently wrote that like all the parents knew, these young people seemed to eat constantly. Many of them were at puberty. If they did not eat food in the four hours before the race, my impression was that they would start to feel extreme fatigue or lose the coordination of organ in the last half of the match. For these young people, it was too long not to eat food in six hours.

I thought many circumstances varied from person to person. If a young athlete did not eat food in four hours, he would feel weak and tired, it was probably a reliable indication. This showed that he needed to eat food often, as for the other cases in the running, you would find the answer even you could hardly find in the most authoritative medical literature after experiment personally.

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