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Racing Weight: How to Get Lean for Peak Performance

Autor Matt Fitzgerald
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 2012
"Racing Weight" is a proven weight-management programme designed specifically for 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 help cyclists, triathletes, and runners lose weight without harming their training. This comprehensive and science-based programme shows athletes the best ways to lose weight and avoid the common lifestyle and training hang-ups that keep new PRs out of reach.

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-13: 9781934030998
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

Studies have shown that the majority of endurance athletes are concerned about their weight and how it hurts their performance. In the first weight-loss program designed for endurance athletes, Fitzgerald lays out five easy steps to help athletes zero in on their fastest weight.

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