High-Performance Nutrition
The Total Eating Plan to Maximum Your Workout
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-471-11520-5 (ISBN)
Description
If you exercise, you need cutting-edge information on diet and nutrition to get the best results. Whether you want to achieve peak performance, improve your energy, increase endurance, lose fat, tone muscle, increase your body's natural ability to fight disease, or slow the aging process, High-Performance Nutrition offers the key to success. Nationally known expert Susan Kleiner shows you how to eat to get more value from any type of exercise----aerobics, strength training, endurance training, cross training, or recreational sports. Her unique nutrition program features: A proven nutritional formula for a fast increase in muscle tone and strength An easy-to-follow 30-Day Menu Plan, including shopping tips and meal preparation strategies Delicious recipes for "One-Minute Breakfasts" and "Dynamite Dinners" The latest information on supplements, food additives, sugar and fat replacements, sports drinks, and vegetarian diets
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
560 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-11520-5 (9780471115205)
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Persons
SUSAN KLEINER, Ph.D., R.D., has worked as a nutrition consultant for the Cleveland Browns and the Cleveland Cavaliers. She is a regular columnist for Men's Fitness magazine and the author of The High Performance Cookbook and The High-Performance Vegetarian Cookbook. MAGGIE GREENWOOD-ROBINSON is the coauthor of such top-selling fitness books as Lean Bodies and High-Performance Bodybuilding.
Content
Partial table of contents: WHAT HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIVING MEANS. Eating for Performance and Health. FOODS FOR PHYSICALLY ACTIVE PEOPLE. Carbohydrates. Fat. Phytochemicals. Minerals. SUPPLEMENTATION FOR ATHLETES AND EXERCISERS. Antioxidant Supplementation. My Firming Formula. CONTROVERSIAL SUPPLEMENTS. The Truth About Some Supplements. Caffeine. FLUID NEEDS OF EXERCISERS. Water. Sports Drinks. THROUGH THICK AND THIN: WEIGHT CONTROL MADE EASY. Successful Weight Control. If you Want to Maintain or Gain Weight. NUTRITION FOR SPECIAL NEEDS. Nutrition During Pregnancy. Go for It. Appendices. References. Index.