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Diets Designed for Athletes
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Product Description
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If youre a competitive athlete or coach at any level, then youre wellaware of the hype surrounding sport-performance food and supplements on themarket. With so many options available, how do you evaluateperformance-enhancing products, choose them wisely, and build them into aprogram that supports your conditioning and competitive goals?
Diets Designed for Athletes helps you cut through the hype withstraightforward guidance on choosing supplement products so that you can avoidwasting money andworse yetjeopardizing your health and conditioning. Thisbook is comprehensive, covering the pros and cons of sport- performance productsavailable in stores and in their natural forms. It tells you what to eat, whento eat it, and why. It gives you the information you need about supplements thatwill work best for you and your sport.
No other book covers all the performance-enhancing foods and supplementscurrently available. Diets Designed for Athletes addresses products fortraining and competing, explaining why and how to incorporate them into yourdiet. It specifies the advantages and disadvantages of products in differentforms, and it describes what to use in hot and cold environments. Youll learnwhat supplements to use to meet your specific needs: Training, Competing, Gaining energy, Aiding recovery, Losing weight, Building strength, Adding endurance, Facing extreme environments.
Youll also learn how to tailor your diet to maximize your metabolism and getthe most out of your physiological makeup. Youll learn how to combinenutrients so that they enhance rather than block one anothers effects.
Customize your own diet by incorporating the nutrition information in this book.Youll find product formula comparisons and explanations of misleading orconfusing terms that you may find on product labels and in ads. Youll learnwhat terms are legitimate and what kinds of performance promises are reasonable.Most important, youll learn how to differentiate between desirable andundesirable products in light of your personal needs and goals.
Diets Designed for Athletes is more than a book about supplements. Itsan objective guide to what actually works, based on real-life experiences of topathletes as well as scientific evidence. Author Maryann Karinch is widelypublished and an extreme athlete herself. With her personal insights and anarray of stories and tips from other nutritionists, athletes, and coaches, thisbook is as entertaining as it is practical.
Dont rely on word-of-mouth advice. Use the accessible, research-based advicein Diets Designed for Athletes to make wiser food investments and to understand when and why dietarysupplements make sense. When you integrate the products that make sense for you into a diet that supports your athletic goals, youll feel the difference fastand see the results in your performance.
About the Author
Maryann Karinch has written numerous books and articles on fitness andnutrition, including Lessons from the Edge, a book featuring stories andhow-to insights from athletes in extreme sports and Boot Camp, ahumorous back-to-basics fitness plan, coauthored by Patrick The SargeAvon.
An avid competitor in endurance and outdoor sports, Karinch began her seriousstudy of nutrition in an effort to improve her own performance without the useof anabolic steroids. She has successfully competed in powerlifting and NationalPhysique Committee bodybuilding events, and she was a member of one of the fewteams to complete the inaugural Eco-Challenge in southern Utah. She was also acollegiate regional gymnastics champion.
Karinch has continued her advanced nutrition studies as a certified personaltrainer with the American Council on Exercise (ACE). She holds an MA in speechand drama from the Catholic University of America and lives in Half Moon Bay,California, where she enjoys ocean whitewater kayaking, weight training, andcooking.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Using Performance-Enhancing Foods
Chapter 2 Eating for Energy
Chapter 3 Aiding Recovery
Chapter 4 Supplementing for Strength
Chapter 5 Adding Endurance
Chapter 6 Gaining or Cutting Weight
Chapter 7 Handling Extreme Conditions
Chapter 8 Fueling Through the Ages
Chapter 9 Assessing Your Fueling Opportunities
Chapter 10 Recharging and Replenishing
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