Tournament / Game Day Nutrition, Physio, and Podiatry Tips

Youth athletes face increasing physical demands during sports seasons, with multiple trainings, games, carnivals, and tournaments often creating very high weekly loads. These intense schedules can increase the risk of sports injuries, fatigue, poor recovery, and reduced athletic performance in adolescent athletes.

In this video, Lizzie, Sports Dietitian, James, Sports Physiotherapist, and Peter, Sports Podiatrist share expert advice to help young athletes improve performance, prevent injury, recover faster, and stay healthy throughout busy sporting seasons and school sport carnivals.

As the Sports Dietitian, I discuss the importance of sports nutrition for adolescent athletes, including how proper fueling supports energy levels, concentration, coordination, muscle recovery, hydration, and injury prevention during tournaments and back-to-back games.

Sports Physiotherapist,James Thompson from Sano Physio,shares practical injury prevention strategies, including warm-up routines, foam rolling, muscle recovery techniques, tendon management, mobility exercises, and ways to reduce tightness and soreness during high-performance periods.

Sports Podiatrist, Peter Charles from Shoes Feet Gear, explains how proper shoe selection, sports biomechanics, foot support, and blister prevention can help athletes reduce pain, avoid common lower limb injuries, and improve comfort and performance on the field or court.

Early assessment and treatment of pain, tightness, or injuries before tournaments is one of the most important ways to keep young athletes performing at their best throughout the season.

Whether your child plays netball, football, rugby, soccer, basketball, hockey, athletics, or other winter sports, these practical tips from our sports health team will help support performance, recovery, and injury prevention.

Watch the above video to hear more.