Annie Little

Sister Empy
July 2, 2014
Sports Nutrition

The FCCLA topic in which I have chosen to write about is Sports Nutrition. Sports
Nutrition gives students opportunities to create a health meal plan for a competitive sports
athlete. They will specifically plan meals that are hydrating, and give the athlete lots of energy.
When the present they demonstrate a method to be used by the student athlete to assist them
with nutritional meals and nutrition management.
By doing so, this gives students the experience they need to possibly be a great leader. A
great leader is someone who are good at giving direction, communication, a good example to
others and a good listener. These are just some that can qualify you as a good leader. By getting
experience of being able to plan nutritional meals, you need so many of those qualities. Things
like listening to the athlete to understand them and their lifestyle, having good communication
so you can thoroughly explain to them their meal plan and the types of things they should be
eating. By doing so, the students can gain experience with these important skills to help them
become great leaders in the future.
When the students feel that they did a good job by helping someone eat the right things
after and before going to work out or for training and for daily life, they feel good knowing they
are helping someone become healthy. The more experience they are able to get before they do
it as a profession, if they choose to do so, they will be a better prepared leader as they can help
other become well trained at what they do and be a leader to others.
One way I can think of to be a good adult advisor to those students is to help them
understand the importance of food and how different foods react in the body in certain way.
For example after you work out, you want a lot of protein to help your muscles instead of after
working out, eating a bunch of junk food which would just create more fat and is not very good
type of food to eat after working out. Giving them advice is another one as you can let them
create the meals and help them see maybe better options in terms of serving sizes and the
types of food.
These are some good ways in which you can help students become motivated and
become a great leader for the future generation.