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Runner's World Performance Nutrition for Runners

Paperback
244 pages
By: Matt Fitzgerald
1-59486-218-4

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Runner's World Performance Nutrition for Runners

This newest addition to the heralded Runner's World series offers runners up-to-date nutrition advice based on the latest science.

Runners have different nutrition and recovery needs than other endurance athletes. Yet until now, they've had no nutritional resource specifically addressing their concerns.

This comprehensive guide distills the newest thinking in the science of exercise nutrition into practical, hands-on tips that will help runners stay healthy, recover faster, enjoy better workouts, and race successfully. Readers will learn:

detailed information on nutritional topics important to runners, from balancing internal energy stores to proper hydration

how to customize their diets to their individual training needs

shopping tips and dining-out strategies to help runners maximize their nutritional intake

the top 5 pre-race meals and top 5 healthiest snacks for runners

nutritional tips for special populations, including women, children, diabetics, and older runners

Matt Fitzgerald is a runner, triathlete, and coach. He has written for such publications as Running Times, Men's Fitness, Triathlete, and Runner's World.

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Fantastic resource., 2006-07-14 20:49:27.0
Reviewer: Rachel from Chesapeake, VA

This book is highly complete and full of common sense, which is refreshing in a sports nutrition book. The goals of the author are both inspirational and entirely grounded in the belief that great nutrition need not require adherence to exact formulae or dependence on high-tech products. Exactly what we all need to read. I have a minor complaint about an uninformed statement early in the book; only because I'm well familiar with the subject. Page 34 states that Neolithic humans required less labor to achieve their caloric needs than Paleolithic humans. The opposite is in fact true, and analysis of Neolithic fossil remains (particularly striations found in teeth) as well as study of modern and historical hunter-gatherer societies teach us that agriculture requires far more labor and provides a far less constant supply of nutrition than a hunter-gatherer lifestyle in most climates. The mistake does not affect the truth of the statement in which it is contained, and I only mention it because I would hope this might be corrected in a future edition. 5 stars are definitely earned.

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