What do professional table tennis players eat?

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Curious to know what professional table tennis players eat to stay in ideal shape. I lost a few pounds, but I don't feel any difference while playing. I only feel difference when I consume caffeine or sugar. The spike makes me more mentally and physically active, but my meals have no influence. Do you feel the same?
 
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Here's a review I found another table tennis and it's nutrition if you're interested in reading it. Not too long and the pictures can help as well as the detailed explanations if you're not too familiar with certain aspects of nutrition and physiology of the body as well as athletics.
Nutrition Recommendations for Table Tennis Players—A Narrative Review
 
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Curious to know what professional table tennis players eat to stay in ideal shape. I lost a few pounds, but I don't feel any difference while playing. I only feel difference when I consume caffeine or sugar. The spike makes me more mentally and physically active, but my meals have no influence. Do you feel the same?
Same as other athletes and sometimes just like you and me. On training days and match days I like to eat sushi. This is because it doesn’t fill you up so much…

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I highly doubt they have a special nutrition plan as table tennis players.

What probably many of them do or get done is tracking at least partially their calories they dont pack too much weight, and the nutrients, so they dont lack anything.

Overall it should be the same as any other human being that takes care of themselves, just a bit more cautious probably.
 
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Table tennis palyers don't strike me as particulary fit, so I doubt that they have very strict diet. I actually wonder why they don't focus more on that part of the sport. I might be wrong but if I think about professional cyclists or a football player like Christiano Ronaldo they seem a lot fitter.
 
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Table tennis palyers don't strike me as particulary fit, so I doubt that they have very strict diet. I actually wonder why they don't focus more on that part of the sport. I might be wrong but if I think about professional cyclists or a football player like Christiano Ronaldo they seem a lot fitter.
Not fit?
Have you never seen Lind, Hugo, Patrick, Dima and many more shirtless?
They are ripped and fit af.
 
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Not fit?
Have you never seen Lind, Hugo, Patrick, Dima and many more shirtless?
They are ripped and fit af.
actually the more pertinent question is why are we not seeing more male TT athlete go shirtless...

It could do wonders for the game.

NB: Alexis does not count. He is an outlier.
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sorry, could not find Euro player pic. I guess the Eurozone players are more modest.
 
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Table tennis palyers don't strike me as particulary fit, so I doubt that they have very strict diet. I actually wonder why they don't focus more on that part of the sport. I might be wrong but if I think about professional cyclists or a football player like Christiano Ronaldo they seem a lot fitter.
You must be watching a very different professional sport. There is no top 50 male player with anything close to a pot belly. Even the overweight ones carry too much muscle more than being fat.
 
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Table tennis palyers don't strike me as particulary fit, so I doubt that they have very strict diet. I actually wonder why they don't focus more on that part of the sport. I might be wrong but if I think about professional cyclists or a football player like Christiano Ronaldo they seem a lot fitter.
Not fit?
Have you never seen Lind, Hugo, Patrick, Dima and many more shirtless?
They are ripped and fit af.
Physique wise in the context of professional athletes they are ultimately unimpressive - definitely not "ripped and fit af". In fact even in the context of people who exercise intensely they are unimpressive. If you put table tennis players in a general physical test of Olympians - mile, pushups, pushups, squats etc. they would be in the lower quartile, I'm guessing.

However, it is of no importance. Athletes are incredibly fine tuned to the performance requirements of their sport. Consider the differences in the physiques of Usain Bolt and Eliud Kipchoge. Or think of it this way - what would be the point of judging Pyrros Dimas on his 1500 m time? If he trained even just a little bit for the 1500 he would be worse off for his events.

Same goes for table tennis players - the marginal benefit of six pack abs is probably negative. The technique requirement for table tennis massively dwarfs the physical requirement so it wouldn't make a ton of sense to spend a lot of time on GPP. Each hour spent on muscles is one not spent on your serves. Ultimately physical prowess accounts for a small portion of success in table tennis, especially since they all built the requisite fitness from when they were children.

I can't speak to the diet plans of specific table tennis athletes, but the nutrition follows the physical requirements. Add to it the fact that most TT players are young, and they can pretty much eat whatever they want and get away with it.

E: In summary physique is a side effect of performance. Not an incredibly important consideration by itself.
 
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I know some of the taller women on the CNT have to diet to try to maintain a certain weight. This isn't forced, they just move faster at a lower weight so they choose to do so.

I have heard 2nd hand that Eugene tried to slim down but didn't play as well and felt like crap, so he just went back to whatever was natural. Eugene is a great player and his body type works for him for sure.
 
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Physique wise in the context of professional athletes they are ultimately unimpressive - definitely not "ripped and fit af". In fact even in the context of people who exercise intensely they are unimpressive. If you put table tennis players in a general physical test of Olympians - mile, pushups, pushups, squats etc. they would be in the lower quartile, I'm guessing.

However, it is of no importance. Athletes are incredibly fine tuned to the performance requirements of their sport. Consider the differences in the physiques of Usain Bolt and Eliud Kipchoge. Or think of it this way - what would be the point of judging Pyrros Dimas on his 1500 m time? If he trained even just a little bit for the 1500 he would be worse off for his events.

Same goes for table tennis players - the marginal benefit of six pack abs is probably negative. The technique requirement for table tennis massively dwarfs the physical requirement so it wouldn't make a ton of sense to spend a lot of time on GPP. Each hour spent on muscles is one not spent on your serves. Ultimately physical prowess accounts for a small portion of success in table tennis, especially since they all built the requisite fitness from when they were children.

I can't speak to the diet plans of specific table tennis athletes, but the nutrition follows the physical requirements. Add to it the fact that most TT players are young, and they can pretty much eat whatever they want and get away with it.
That was actually tested one time, and only swimmers are more fit IIRC.
 
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That was actually tested one time, and only swimmers are more fit IIRC.
As in only swimmers are more fit than tt players, i.e. the fittest athletes at the summer Olympics are swimmers? Would depend on how they defined fitness but if any strength element played a big role this would not be true for swimmers and table tennis players.

Regardless, like I said, it's unimportant because they're honed in on the specific requirements for table tennis.
 
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