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[QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 5413025, member: 8594"]
That kind of stuff has marginal benefits, though, if any.  Vitamin D, or any vitamin, intake isn’t going to show up in a player’s performance on the court or field unless they’re significantly deficient, which is unlikely even in the cold and dark winter months up north.  The issues with vitamin D deficiency center around mood and bone health.  Mood is highly subjective and not much of a consideration for athletic performance.  Bone health sounds important but, for guys running and/or lifting weights regularly, their bones are going to respond to that stimuli and will be plenty dense, even if their calcium absorption isn’t optimal.  You wouldn’t expect to see any difference in the occurrence of broken bones because their vitamin D levels were low for 3 or 4 months. If we were talking about 70 year olds, yeah it’d be a different story.

Vitamins aren’t bad.  Supplementing diet with vitamins isn’t bad.  It’s just not going to make a difference in how high you jump or how fast you run or how injury prone you are.
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