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Sprint & Field Events Fueling
5-7 g/kg
Daily Carb Range
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Short events do not mean small appetites. Explosive athletes need enough food to stay explosive all week, not just on the days they compete.
At a Glance
Sprint + Field
What's covered: Daily Base, Meet Day, Before Training.
Sprint + Field
Daily Base
5-7 g/kg
Daily Carb Range
1.6-1.8 g/kg
Daily Protein Range
Coach Prompt
When starts go flat or a lift total stalls, check the week's total food intake before you touch the program.
POWER FUEL PLAN
Daily Base
Daily Base
Build meals around a starch, a protein source, produce
Meet Day
Meet Day
Meet-day rounds need a plan: top off between prelims and finals instead of skipping or overeating.
Before Training
Before Training
Fruit, toast
ATHLETE GUIDE
Daily Carb Range
5-7 g/kg
Daily Protein Range: 1.6-1.8 g/kg
Best Fit
Daily Anchors
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus a pre-lift snack and a recovery snack.
Best Plate
Carbs on the plate every day, even during lighter training weeks.
DAILY RULES
Daily Base
Power Athletes Still Need Carbohydrate Every DayBefore Training
Arrive Already Fueled Enough to Hit Quality WorkMeet Day
Stop Treating Leaner or Lighter as Automatically BetterBuilt by an RD who coaches · Luke Rodriguez, MS, RDN · Palmer Ridge HS XC
When to use this
When a sprinter, jumper, or thrower assumes short events mean small food needs and the starts are going flat.
- Power athletes trimming carbs because they think fuel is a distance-runner problem.
- A stalled lift total or short reps showing up late in the training week.
- Meet days with prelims and finals and nothing eaten between rounds.
Advanced lab
Daily fuel math for power athletes
The sheet gives the working ranges. The worked example and the day-by-day spread are here so the numbers turn into actual meals instead of staying abstract.
Ranges come from adult power-athlete research; growing athletes should sit at the moderate end, and none of these numbers are cut-weight targets. For any body-composition question, work with a sports dietitian, not the team scale.
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