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Nutritional strategies for optimizing performance of elite women athletes

In this edition of Sports Tomorrow Congress, performance and nutrition merge into one interrelated track to focus on female football. The double track will run over the course of two days.Join us to investigate the latest discoveries in sports nutrition and performance.

Topics explored in the Nutrition-Performance track include:

  • Gender Physiological differences, as well as differences in optimizing training and conditioning training.
  • The female physiology, looking at hormones, muscle fibres, biomarkers, the menstrual cycle, fertility and performance in female elite players.
  • External load variables in female football players (HSR, acc-desc, etc.).
  • DXA models for players: anatomy and biomechanics, exploring body composition and new evaluation parameters.
  • Specific strength profile in professional female football players.
  • Nootropics and ergoenics innovation for performance.
  • Buffers Beta- alanine and bicarbonate / creatine.
  • Recovery strategies (focused on conditional training) in female team sport players.
  • Coordination (running technique, cognition, etc.) in female football players.

Learn more about the latest discoveries in nutrition and performance.

THE TRACK in numbers

Assistents

Edition

Hours of content

Industry leading speakers

SPEAKERS

Take a look at some of the speakers who has joined Sports Tomorrow Congress

Ainhoa Coco

Gynecologist, Assisted Reproduction Specialist
CIRH

Asker Jeukendrup

Professor of Exercise Metabolism
Loughborough University & Mysportscience

Tyler Bosh

Data Analytics Lead
Red Bull Athlete Performance Centers

Rhodri LLoyd

Professor of Paediatric Strength and Conditioning
Cardiff Metropolitan University

Anthony C. Hackney

Professor of Exercise Physiology & Nutrition
University of North Carolina

Ian Rollo

GSSI Scientist
Gatorade Sports Science Institute

Program

Central European Time (CET)

Sala Auditori 1899

10 NOV 2021

09:00

OPEN DOORS

09:30

Welcome And Introduction Milos Mallol + Ian Rollo + Mireia Porta Oliva

09:45

PHYSIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR WOMEN´S FOOTBALL

General Overview of Women’s Physiology Anthony C. Hackney

Female Hormones: Considerations for Health & Performance Nicky Keay

11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:45

PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING IN WOMEN´S FOOTBALL: AN FCB APPROACH

Biomarkers of Interest in Women’s Football Beatriz Candás

Gut Microbiome in Elite Sports Marta Llopis + Ken McGrath

FCB Approach: Sharing Learnings from a FIFA Study Eva Ferrer + Mireia Porta Oliva + Toña Lizarraga

13:15

LUNCH BREAK

14:45

Menstrual cycle and performance in female elite players Georgie Bruinvels

Analysis of External Load Variables in female Soccer Player Dawn Scott

16:00

BREAK

16:15

NUTRITIONISTS AT FEMALE FOOTBALL CLUBS – ROUND TABLE

Practical Case Studies: Integration of sport Nutrition and Sports Science FCB Team + Lindsay Langford + Lloyd Parker + Mariona Caldentey

17:30

Meet and greet networking session with refreshments

11 NOV 2021

09:15

OPEN DOORS

09:45

BODY COMPOSITION AND FUNCTIONAL ASSESMENTS IN ELITE FEMALE FOOTBALL

An FCB Approach: New functional Index Parameters to evaluate body composition Mireia Porta Oliva + Toña Lizarraga

Body Composition: DXA Models for player – Anatomy and Biomechanics Tyler Bosh

Sex-based differences in muscle arhcitecture and metabolism Clara Prats

11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:45

NUTRITION INNOVATIONS FOR FEMALE FOOTBALL PERFORMANCE

Nutrition Innovation for Female Football Asker Jeukendrup

New Ergogenics for consideration in Football Matteo Pincella

13:00

LUNCH BREAK

14:30

Recovery processes after games and strategies to improve recovery in female team sports players Helena Andersson

Early exposure to strength and conditioning to build resilient female soccer players Rhodri LLoyd

15:45

BREAK

16:00

FERTILITY: CONSIDERATIONS IN ELITE FEMALE FOOTBALL

Gynecological barriers for elite female athletes Ainhoa Coco

Fertility: Consideration and advice for Players Carlos Dosouto

17:00

ROUND TABLE: Microcycle structure in female sport team players Jacob Gonzalez + Berta Carles + Esther Morencos + Blanca Romero

18:00

Meet and greet networking session with refreshments

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