Racing Weight: How to Get Lean for Peak Performance
Autor Matt Fitzgeralden Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 2012
The updated "Racing Weight" programme helps athletes improve diet quality and manage appetite; balance energy sources; easily monitor weight and performance; time nutrition throughout the day and train to get, and stay, lean. "Racing Weight" offers practical tools to make weight management easy. Fitzgerald's no-nonsense Diet Quality Score improves diet without counting calories.
Racing Weight superfoods are diet foods high in the nutrients athletes need for training. Supplemental strength training workouts can accelerate changes in body composition. Daily food diaries from 18 pro athletes reveal how the elites maintain an athletic diet while managing appetite.
Athletes know that every extra pound wastes energy and hurts performance. With "Racing Weight", cyclists, triathletes, and runners have a simple programme and practical tools to hit their target numbers on both the race course and the scale.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1934030996
Pagini: 277
Ilustrații: Tables and illustrations throughout
Dimensiuni: 155 x 228 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: VELOPRESS
Seria The Racing Weight Series
Notă biografică
Matt Fitzgerald is a certified sports nutritionist and the author of numerous books on running, triathlon, nutrition, and weight loss. His most recent books are Racing Weight Cookbook, Racing Weight Quick Start Guide, RUN: The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel, Racing Weight, Brain Training for Runners, and The Runner's Diary. Matt is a regular contributor to Men's Fitness, Men's Health, Outside, Runner's World, Bicycling, Running Times, Women's Running, and other sports and fitness publications. Fitzgerald is a featured coach on TrainingPeaks, Pear Sports, and Active.com. He is a certified sports nutritionist (CISSN) licensed by the International Society of Sports Nutrition. He lives and trains near San Francisco, California.
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A 6-Step Plan to a Leaner Body and Better Performance
Improve Your Diet Quality
Manage Your Appetite
Balance Your Energy Stores
Monitor Your Weight and Performance
Time Your Nutrition
Train Right
Athletes know that every extra pound wastes energy and hurts performance. Racing Weight offers a proven weight management program exclusively designed for and endorsed by endurance athletes.
Revealing new research and drawing from the best practices of elite athletes, coach and nutritionist Matt Fitzgerald lays out six easy steps to get you lean for racing. You will find out how to avoid the common lifestyle and training hang-ups that keep your optimal weight--and your best race--just out of reach.
The Racing Weight program gets you to your fastest weight with practical tools that deliver results:
- Diet Quality Score, a simple approach to better eating
- Racing Weight superfoods to boost your diet quality
- Daily food diaries from 18 pro athletes
- Strength training for a leaner body in just 1 hour a week
Hit your target numbers on the stopwatch and on the scale with Racing Weight.
Descriere
Cuprins
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Finding Your Racing Weight
Chapter 1: Get Leaner, Go Faster
Chapter 2: How Much Should You Weigh?
Chapter 3: Dieting vs. Performance Weight Management
Part 2: 6 Steps to Peak Performance
Chapter 4: Improving Your Diet Quality
Chapter 5: Managing Your Appetite
Chapter 6: Balancing Your Energy Sources
Chapter 7: Monitoring Yourself
Chapter 8: Nutrient Timing
Chapter 9: Training for Racing Weight
Part 3: Fine-Tuning Your Strategy
Chapter 10: The Racing Weight Journey
Chapter 11: Racing Weight Foods
Chapter 12: What the Pros Eat
Chapter 13: Racing Weight and You
Appendix: Strength Training Exercises for Endurance Athletes
References
Index
About the Author
Also Available: Racing Weight Quick Start Guide