College Athletes Are Running Insane Times! What is their diet and does it effect their times/fitness?

I know that as a high-school senior and as the nations top high-school boy, Nico Young drank a green super-food smoothie for breakfast and then just had a chicken salad for lunch. His diet has probably changed tho so I would take this lightly.

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Newbury Park High's Nico Young is built to run, and run fast. Here's why

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Newbury Park High's Nico Young is perhaps the No. 1 cross country runner in the nation and one of the greatest runners in county history. Find out why.

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Totally diff but I had a 10.1 20.1 46 low guy teammate who ate like crap, also a sub 4 guy here a few years ago who smoked and drank a bit

The elite runners eat a great diet. They consume fruits and vegetables. They don't consume junk food. they don't consume too many calories. Most posters would consider them having an eating disorder of they saw what they eat even though it is the perfect diet.

They get a lot more fiber in their diets...carbon fiber.

I don’t know, does it “effect” their fitness?

Honestly having been around athletes pre and post pandemic (athlete myself prior, coach now), I’ve seen a tremendous amount of athletes take diet and staying away from things like alcohol much more seriously. The runners at all levels are partying less, and eating cleaner and I think that culture shift from the pandemic has sort of played into part of the renaissance of fast running we’ve seen alongside the new spikes.

Personally in college, I ate whatever I could get my hands on. Probably 50% of my meals one would consider “healthy”, 25% were “okay”, and the other 25% were just junk. But I always made sure I ate ENOUGH which is probably the most important thing and part of the reason I was never hurt much. I managed to run at what I think to be my peak by doing that.

Yeah sorry I think I'm still half asleep! That's going to bug me later

It’s actually impressive when elite 5% body fat (or whatever that number usually is) runners can eat properly to fuel their training without slipping into an eating disorder or gaining unwanted weight.

Carbs to give them energy for the run.

Protein to recover from the run.

Fat because peanut butter is tasty.

This is what they consume to run fast.

The ability of college athletes to run fast has very little to do with their diet. Maybe 1%?

Every elite runner has an eating disorder. None have an eating disorder. A few get injured because they are injury prone. But all of the US fatties want everyone to be fat. Runners are of the size that every American was 75 years ago.

You are 99% incorrect.

I've heard both sides of the diet theory. Many people have said that it makes the difference between being successful or not, while on the other hand, I've heard others say that diets are overrated.

The people who say it is overrated have not run sub 13:10.

They need at least 3,000 calories to maintain weight and they can eat as much as they want, anyway. Do you actually believe that Young, with his training and metabolism, could gain weight?

Success is a combination of talent and fitness, and a diet would need to be abnormally bad to make a difference.

What's the biggest change recently? Shoes.

Clearly a full diet of super foods shoes.

fancy shoes,and PED'S.

Simple math. If Nico consumes 3000 calories today and is maintaining his weight, then he would gain weight if started to consume 4000 calories.