PMID- 30871227
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20201001
IS  - 2075-4663 (Electronic)
IS  - 2075-4663 (Linking)
VI  - 7
IP  - 3
DP  - 2019 Mar 13
TI  - Dietary Intake and Energy Expenditure Assessed during a Pre-Season Period in 
      Elite Gaelic Football Players.
LID - 10.3390/sports7030062 [doi]
LID - 62
AB  - There is currently a lack of research into the energy demands and associated 
      nutritional intakes of elite Gaelic football players during the pre-season 
      period, which is a crucial time of year for physical development. The aim of the 
      current study was to investigate the dietary intake and energy expenditure (EE) 
      of elite Gaelic football players during a typical pre-season week. Over a 
      seven-day period, which included four training days and three rest days, dietary 
      intake (validated self-reported estimated food diary) and EE (Sensewear Pro 
      armband) were recorded in 18 male players from a single elite inter-county Gaelic 
      football team. Average energy intake (EI) (3283 +/- 483 kcal) was significantly (p 
      = 0.002) less than average EE (3743 +/- 335 kcal), with a mean daily energy deficit 
      of -460 +/- 503 kcal. Training days elicited the greatest deficits between intake 
      and expenditure. The mean carbohydrate (CHO) intake was 3.6 +/- 0.7 g/kg/day, 
      protein intake was 2.1 +/- 0.5 g/kg/day, and fat intake was 1.6 +/- 0.2 g/kg/day. 
      These findings indicate that the dietary practices of the sampled players were 
      inadequate to meet EE and CHO recommendations. Training days are of particular 
      concern, with the players not altering energy and CHO intake to encounter 
      increased energy demands. Education on nutritional strategies for elite Gaelic 
      footballers should be considered in relation to training demands to avoid 
      detriments to performance and health.
FAU - O'Brien, Luke
AU  - O'Brien L
AD  - School of Health Sciences, Liverpool Hope University, Hope Park, Liverpool L16 
      9JD, UK. obrienl@hope.ac.uk.
FAU - Collins, Kieran
AU  - Collins K
AD  - Gaelic Sports Research Center, Institute of Technology Tallaght, Tallaght, 24 
      Dublin, Ireland. kieran.collins@it-tallaght.ie.
FAU - Doran, Dominic
AU  - Doran D
AD  - The Tom Reilly Building, Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, 
      Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 5UA, UK. d.a.doran@ljmu.ac.uk.
FAU - Khaiyat, Omid
AU  - Khaiyat O
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0509-9172
AD  - School of Health Sciences, Liverpool Hope University, Hope Park, Liverpool L16 
      9JD, UK. alizado@hope.ac.uk.
FAU - Amirabdollahian, Farzad
AU  - Amirabdollahian F
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1937-4128
AD  - School of Health Sciences, Liverpool Hope University, Hope Park, Liverpool L16 
      9JD, UK. amirabf@hope.ac.uk.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20190313
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Sports (Basel)
JT  - Sports (Basel, Switzerland)
JID - 101722684
PMC - PMC6473249
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Gaelic sport
OT  - dietary intake
OT  - energy expenditure
OT  - macronutrients
OT  - pre-season
OT  - training load
COIS- No finance was provided for conducting the study. The authors declare no 
      conflicts of interest.
EDAT- 2019/03/16 06:00
MHDA- 2019/03/16 06:01
PMCR- 2019/03/13
CRDT- 2019/03/16 06:00
PHST- 2019/02/07 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2019/03/08 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2019/03/12 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/03/16 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/03/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/03/16 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2019/03/13 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - sports7030062 [pii]
AID - sports-07-00062 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/sports7030062 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Sports (Basel). 2019 Mar 13;7(3):62. doi: 10.3390/sports7030062.