Authors : Anjali Rajwade
Page Nos : 115-118
Description :
Sporting activity combines exercise with recreation. Nutrition plays an important role in any exercise by supplying the necessary energy as well as enhancing the endurance. The study was therefore, aimed at assessing nutritional knowledge, dietary practices and physical endurance of 40 amateur women swimmers of age group 25 – 35 years, from Akola city; before and after imparting nutrition guidance to them. 85% of the respondents had low knowledge level about general nutrition at pre guidance stage. The guidance helped 65% respondents to achieve high knowledge level while medium level was achieved by another 22.5% swimmers. Nutritional guidance related to endurance resulted in a shift from 100% respondents at low level pre guidance to 77.5% of them at high level post guidance, showing significant (0.1067) improvement at 0.01 level of significance. Only 1 of the swimmers practiced consumption of carbohydrate rich diet, instead a high percentage 65% consumed fat rich diet while 30% fat & protein rich diet. 15% respondents started consuming carbohydrate and protein rich diet. Nutritional guidance induced 70.00% respondents to shift to carbohydrate rich diet. The dietary practices improved significantly due to knowledge gained through the nutritional guidance. At post guidance stage; good sport endurance was observed in 82.5% respondents, 72.5% had good general stamina, good body weight status was achieved by 87.5% respondents, while 77.5% of the swimmers had good level of psychological well being. Nutritional guidance, appropriate for the sports women enabled them in improving their nutrition resulting in improvement in their nutritional knowledge, dietary practices and health parameters related to physical endurance, thereby improving their sports activity.
Keywords: Amateur Women Swimmers, Nutritional Guidance, Nutritional Knowledge, Dietary Practices, Endurance, Health Parameters.
