Fuel Up! — The Athlete's Nutrition Playbook
2-page printable PDF · Premium resource
A two-page nutrition worksheet for ages 12–16 that treats food as performance fuel. Students explore the macronutrients, design game-day plates for before and after competition, calculate personal hydration targets, bust common nutrition myths, create performance snacks and set SMART nutrition goals.
The design tasks are where knowledge becomes usable: a student who can build a sensible pre-game plate and calculate their own fluid needs has crossed from "knows about nutrition" to "can feed themselves for sport." Myth-busting arms them against the supplement-and-superfood noise every teenage athlete swims in.
Two pages, print-and-go. Use it inside an HPE nutrition topic, as athlete education before carnival season, or as the food module of a broader performance unit alongside Game Face (mental skills) and Test Day (fitness data) — together they cover the fuel, the mind and the engine.
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