Practical Sports Nutrition
Louise Burke
As sports nutrition knowledge and practice become increasingly sophisticated, there is new appreciation of the fact that all athletes have different nutritional needs. Practical Sports Nutrition is the first text to provide detailed, sport-specific advice enabling you to approach individual athletes and teams with an understanding of their sport and unique nutritional needs.
Nutrition expert Louise Burke covers a wide variety of popular sports – providing information that is applied, practical, and useful. Each chapter offers a comprehensive review of competition, training, physique and physiology, lifestyle and culture, dietary surveys, sports foods and supplements—all tailored to the specific sport. It also discusses the issues and challenges arising in each sport and provides useful examples of how to successfully tackle sport-specific problems.
Athletes want to know the person advising them understands their specific needs. With Practical Sports Nutrition, you will learn how to translate the latest ideas on nutrition into tailored recommendations that include phases of training and recovery, including but not limited to, what athletes should eat before and after their sport and the next day. More importantly, you will learn why those exact foods are beneficial to the athlete. Specific research cited in tables backs up the advice given on nutrition, food, supplements, and other topics, so you can feel confident the information is up-to-date and applicable in the real world.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1. An Overview of the Principles of Sports Nutrition
Chapter 2. Approaching a Sport and its Nutrition Issues
Chapter 3. Sport Foods and Supplements
Chapter 4. Road Cycling and Triathlons
Chapter 5. Middle and Long Distance Running
Chapter 6. Swimming and Rowing
Chapter 7. Sprinting and Jumping
Chapter 8. Field Sports
Chapter 9. Court and Indoor Sports
Chapter 10. Racquet Sports
Chapter 11. Strength and Power Sports
Chapter 12. Weight-Making Sports
Chapter 13. Gymnastics
Chapter 14. Nutrition for Winter Sports
Nanna L. Meyer, PhD and Susie Parker-Simmons, MS, RD
See the Human Kinetics website for details on availability and ordering.
ISBN: 073604695X
ISBN13: 9780736046954
Pub Date: 2007
