Recommended Daily Caloric Intake

What is a calorie? A calorie is the total amount of energy that a food contains. What is the recommended daily caloric intake for an athlete? The number of calories that an athlete should consume varies from athlete to athlete. Some leading factors to determining YOUR caloric intake would be age, weight, height, gender, activity level, and other factors. Many female athletes should consume 1,845 - 2,110 calories per day, and males should consume between 2,220 and 2,745 calories daily. But when you are consuming the calories you want to make sure that they are spent on what is good for you and not what you shouldn't be eating, in other words the better choice for you. For example you can either choose the bag of chips or the oats and honey granola bar. Which one has a better nutritional value? The granola bar!

When you choose the foods that you do, you can look at the nutrition facts and see what percent of the daily value that the food or drink contains. When you are looking at the nutrition facts under the ingredients, remember that the ingredients are listed based on what is the greatest amount in the food to the least. Sometimes when you look at the nutrition facts you blow yourself away, and you can't believe what you just ate, and change that for the next time.


I would have to say that athletes have to be a conscious  of the number of calories that they intake because if they consume too little then they won't meet their requirements for the activity and will feel a fatigue, or if they have too much and they don't get used then they are just unused packets of energy that are in your body.