The Complete Guide to Food for Sports Performance: Peak Nutrition for Your Sport

by Dr Louise Burke (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1992

  $7.54

  Whatever your sport, if you are an athlete, it is essential to have your body working at peak efficiency. You want your training to provide maximum benefit and you want to achieve peak performance when you compete. In order to achieve these goals you need to understand how food and fluid intakes can be used by your body. In the search for the winning edge, the benefits of good nutrition have largely been overlooked until recently. But in contemporary sport, nutrition holds the greatest potential benefit for competitors - for the least effort. Louise Bourke initially trained as a triathlete and competed in seven international Ironman events. She then completed a PhD in Sports Nutrition before taking up her present position as dietitian at the Australian Institute of Sport. Her book presents nutrition as an integrated part of an athlete's total performance-enhancing package. She converts general nutrition and exercise physiology information into a plan for day-to-day practice for training and competition. She outlines important differences in nutritional needs for different sports, including the timing of food and liquid intake, and the best foods to achieve maximum ene

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.76

  The revised and updated edition of this book contains comprehensive nutritional information for sportsmen and women. It outlines important differences in nutritional needs during both training and competition for each sport, and the best foods to achieve maximum energy output. The book also contains case-studies of specific sports and discussions of typical dietary problems, describing practical plans to achieve peak performance. It enables athletes and their coaches to design a diet uniquely suited to the needs of the individual, including the need for weight gain or weight loss.