Nutritional habits among high-performance endurance athletes.

Background And Objective: For athletes, the main purpose of nutrition is to ensure the compensation of increased energy consumption and the need for nutrients in the athlete's body, thereby enabling maximum adaptation to physical loads. The aim of this study was to determine the habits of highly trained endurance athletes depending on sports type, sex and age in order to improve the planning and management of the training of athletes using targeted measures.

Materials And Methods: In 2009-2012, the dietary habits of 146 endurance athletes were analyzed.