Kelsey HigginsonSports Nutrition Coach and Founder at Clutch Day Coaching

Off season football nutrition

30 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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In this instructional video, the speaker addresses football players preparing for the upcoming season, emphasizing two key offseason habits: (1) incorporating food intake during practice to avoid feeling sluggish during games, recommending mid‑practice snacks like a banana or applesauce to train the body to digest while active; and (2) maintaining proper hydration to prevent cramping, advising athletes to consume 16–32 oz of fluid each hour of workout, especially on hot days, and to add electrolyte powder to the water. The guidance aims to improve performance and reduce heat‑related issues when the season starts.

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Offseason football nutrition. Football players, this summer I need you to be focusing on two things specifically. Number one, get your body used to having food in it while you're playing the game. So many of you are so scared to feel sluggish and gross during the game that you don't eat at all leading up to it. Your body can adapt to this, so start with eating a banana in the middle of practice or an applesauce in the middle of practice, and it's going to help you play so much better come football season. And then the second thing you need to be focusing on is your hydration. Cramping is a huge thing when it's hot outside, you're full pads, you're sweating a lot, so you need to make sure that you are drinking at least 16 to 32 ounces every single hour that you are working out with an electrolyte powder in there on the days that it's hot.