Advanced sports nutrition
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Advanced sports nutrition
Human Kinetics, c2006
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Advanced sports nutrition : fine-tune your food and fluid intake for optimal training and performance
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"This book is a revised edition of 'Nutrition for serious athletes,' published in 2000 by Human Kinetics"
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Nutritional sources for athletes
- Energy nutrients
- Vitamins and minerals
- Fluids and electrolytes
- Ergogenic aids
- Nutritional aspects of optimal performance
- Digestion and absorption
- Timing of energy and fluid intake
- Effective deliverly of Oxygen
- Inhibitors of fuel and nutrient utilization
- Factors affecting nutritional needs
- Travel
- High altitude
- Gender and age
- Body composition and weight goals
- Nutrition strategies for specific energy systems
- Anaerobic metabolism for high-intensity bursts and power
- Aerobic metabolism for endurance
- Metabolic needs of sports requiring power and endurance
- Nutrition plans for specific sports
- Sports requiring power and speed
- Sports requiring endurance
- Sports requiring combined power and endurance
