Advanced sports nutrition
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Advanced sports nutrition
Human Kinetics, c2006
- soft cover
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Advanced sports nutrition : fine-tune your food and fluid intake for optimal training and performance
Available at 11 libraries
Note
"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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Almed at dedicated athletes and coaches with a basic understanding of sports nutrition, seeking more advanced information and who are serious about improving training and competitive performances. Readers will learn how to effectively fuel the body and apply in-depth guidance to individual sport and fitness performance. Covers digestion and absorption, energy intake and expenditure, optimal fuel utilisation, the oxygen delivery system, the effects of altitude on nutritional needs, the unique needs of female athletes, as well as achieving and maintaining proper body composition and weight. Provides strategies for athletes to gain the optimal amount of essential energy, nutrients and fluids given such factors as the timing and type of activity.
Table of Contents
- Part I: Key Factors for Optimal Performance
- Chapter 1. Dietary Science and Athletic Excellence
- Chapter 2. Digestion and Absorption
- Chapter 3. Optimal Distribution of Energy Nutrients
- Chapter 4. Vitamins and Minerals
- Chapter 5. Micronutrients and Oxygen Delivery
- Chapter 6. Fluids and Electrolytes
- Chapter 7. Ergogenic Aids
- Chapter 8. Fuel Utilization Inhibitors
- Chapter 9. Energy Intake-Expenditure Balance
- Chapter 10. Travel
- Chapter 11. High Altitude
- Chapter 12. Gender and Age
- Chapter 13. Body Composition and Weight
- Part II: Energy System-Specific Nutritional Strategies
- Chapter 14. Phosphagen System for Highly Intense Bursts
- Chapter 15. Anaerobic Metabolism for Power
- Chapter 16. Aerobic Metabolism for Endurance
- Part III: Sport-Specific Nutritional Plans
- Chapter 17. Power Sports
- Chapter 18. Endurance Sports
- Chapter 19. Combination Sports.
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