Sports Nutrition


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This long-standing and renowned reference for both the seasoned and novice sports dietitian thoroughly explores all areas of nutrition for sports and fitness. Now in full colour, it also serves as an excellent text for sports nutrition courses and a study aid for the CSSD specialty exam.




User's Guide to Sports Nutrients


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Bodybuilders and other serious athletes commonly take natural performance-enhancing nutrients. Used correctly, these nutrients help build muscle and strength. This guide describes the best of these nutritional supplements and tells you how to use them safely and effectively.




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The Athlete's Guide to Sports Supplements


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The Athlete's Guide to Sports Supplements is for athletes, coaches, and trainers seeking information on safe and legal performance-focused supplements. Listed alphabetically, each of the 120 supplements has a detailed description of what it is and how it works, facts on performance benefits, current research, recommended dosages, and health concerns.




Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook


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Boost your energy, manage stress, build muscle, lose fat, and improve your performance. The best-selling nutrition guide is now better than ever! Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook will help you make the right choices in cafes, convenience stores, drive-throughs, and your own kitchen. Whether you’re preparing for competition or simply eating for an active lifestyle, let this leading sports nutritionist show you how to get maximum benefit from the foods you choose and the meals you make. You’ll learn what to eat before and during exercise and events, how to refuel for optimal recovery, and how to put into use Clark’s family-friendly recipes and meal plans. You’ll find the latest research and recommendations on supplements, energy drinks, organic foods, fluid intake, popular diets, carbohydrate and protein intake, training, competition, fat reduction, and muscle gain. Whether you’re seeking advice on getting energized for exercise or improving your health and performance, Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook has the answers you can trust.




Eat to Compete


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Sports nutrition guide for nutritionists, coaches, trainers, parents, and athletes.




The Complete Guide to Food for Sports Performance


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A substantially revised and updated edition of the highly respected guide to using nutrition as an integrated part of an athlete's total performance enhancing package.




NSCA's Guide to Sport and Exercise Nutrition


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NSCA's Guide to Sport and Exercise Nutrition, Second Edition, examines the effects that nutrition has on performance, health, and body composition. It helps you understand how to assess an individual's nutrition status and--if it falls within your scope of practice--develop customized nutrition plans.




Sports Nutrition


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In the United States alone, over 60 million youth participate in organized sports. This book is designed to assist coaches of these youth by providing a fundamental understanding of sports nutrition and how to correctly fuel athletes for athletic performance. Chapters include the basics of sports nutrition, fuel for the body, timing and type of meals and snacks, fluids and hydration, dietary supplements, eating disorders, and body image, and special considerations for athletes such as those who are vegetarian, diabetic, or have a food allergy. The final chapter provides practical suggestions for parents to appreciate the importance of sports nutrition for their athlete. A greater knowledge and application of sports nutrition will assist in optimal sports performances as well as improved overall health and well-being for the athlete.




Fitness Professionals Guide to Sports Nutrition and Weight Management


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Fitness Professionals’ Guide to Sports Nutrition and Weight Management is an indispensable text that gives fitness professionals essential advice and information on how to help their clients make better nutrition choices that effectively support an active lifestyle. Dr. Kruskall offers a wide variety of useful tips and practical guidance to fitness professionals, such as how to provide their clients with nutritional advice while staying within their scope of practice. This combination book and DVD package will serve as a valuable resource for health and fitness professionals who want to share scientifically sound, yet easy-to-understand and practical, nutrition information with their clients.