I’ve got a little over a month until my university’s track team tryouts (I’m trying to walk on), but I am having an unbelievably tough time balancing my eating trying to keep excess weight off while trying to get in shape for this tryout. I’m a triple jumper mainly, so I don’t need a ton of speed endurance, but a lot of explosiveness through short sprints and plyos I guess. But I feel like in order to maintain my current body composition (so as to not be jumping with excess fat that’ll weigh me down), the amount of calories I take in does not allow me to complete my workouts very well at all.
Any tips? Perhaps some foods to steer clear of, and some to make sure to include, besides the normal nutritional guidelines we all follow as strictly as we can?