Boost your energy, manage stress, build muscle, lose fat, and improve your performance. The best-selling nutrition guide is now better than ever! Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook will help you make the right choices in cafes, convenience stores, drive-throughs, and your own kitchen. Whether you’re preparing for competition or simply eating for an active lifestyle, let this leading sports nutritionist show you how to get maximum benefit from the foods you choose and the meals you make. You’ll learn what to eat before and during exercise and events, how to refuel for optimal recovery, and how to put into use Clark’s family-friendly recipes and meal plans. You’ll find the latest research and recommendations on supplements, energy drinks, organic foods, fluid intake, popular diets, carbohydrate and protein intake, training, competition, fat reduction, and muscle gain. Whether you’re seeking advice on getting energized for exercise or improving your health and performance, Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook has the answers you can trust.

Have you ever wanted to know the secret of why some soccer players have more energy than others? Ever wonder what Cristiano Ronaldo & Lionel Messi eat before and after a game to perform so well? Wish you had a book that is quick to read and tripled your soccer nutrition knowledge while revealing how you can make eating healthy easier? Want to learn the #1 thing you are probably drinking that is wasting your money and not helping you succeed in soccer? If any of these situations describe you, you are not alone. Balancing soccer, school, family, eating healthy foods, and the many other things requiring your time can be difficult. Consuming food that is working against you can make it even more difficult to stay balanced and succeed. There is no such thing as a perfect diet, but there are definitely eating habits that will lift you to great heights and junk foods that will hold you back from taking your game to the next level. Improving your eating takes time to find the key things that work best for you. However, this book will dramatically reduce your time to discover those key foods and routines that will ensure you become the most energetic player in your league. This book's main aim is to point out and provide help with the most important areas of eating for you to succeed. In an ideal world, you have an infinite amount of time and money to eat the best foods at the right times. However, we both know that it is hard to always find the time needed to prepare and eat as well as the fact that food can be expensive. Therefore, this book reveals the few key foods that make the biggest difference for you to become way better in a short time. This book details the most important 20% of eating to help you get 80%+ of the results. This book discusses how you should view eating to avoid the common pitfalls people encounter. Outcomes of applying the facts in this book: -Use Cristiano Ronaldo's & Lionel Messi's ways of eating to become better than your competition. -Benefit from knowing how the top 10% of performers eat and what ways of eating to avoid that is holding the other 90% back from accomplishing their dreams. -Know what to eat on off-days, before games, and after a match to ensure you quickly gain muscle and recover in time for your next match or training session. Why does learning how to improve your knowledge of food matter? Well, building your soccer knowledge grows your confidence. Self-esteem is key for you to build the belief in yourself to know how to eat in a way that helps push you to become the star you want to be. Make sure you have the tools to overcome difficulties and get everything you want out of playing soccer. It is time for your Soccer Nutrition to reach the next level. Learn what it takes to become the best. Be the person who changes every game from here on out. Pick up your copy today by clicking BUY NOW.

This long-standing and renowned reference for both the seasoned and novice sports dietitian thoroughly explores all areas of nutrition for sports and fitness. Now in full colour, it also serves as an excellent text for sports nutrition courses and a study aid for the CSSD specialty exam.

Soccer is a high-intensity game that requires speed, endurance, power and strength over prolonged periods of time. An average professional football player will cover approximately 11-13km (6.8 - 7.7 miles) during a competitive match, 1093-1531yards of which consists of very high intensity running (e.g. short, fast sprints for the ball). A soccer player can spend as much as 30% of match time in the 'critical performance zone', working above 80% of maximal effort. All this effort leads to fatigue as the match progresses. As you get tired, you are not able to play at the intensity you did at the start of the game and your concentration levels may also lose their sharpness. Players reduce their stores of energy considerably during a game, running extremely low on fuel. Fatigue limits performance, especially in the later stages of a game, and this could even negatively affect the outcome of a match. Professional players have to be able to play competitive matches within a few days of each other. With just 2-3 days between games, players need know how to keep energy stores topped up and how to replenish them after training or matches, to promote optimal recovery and support adaptations to training. This booklet explains the components of a healthy, well-balanced diet and suggestions are given for strategies to help you perform at your best.

This handy "how-to" food guide addresses the nutrition questions and concerns of soccer athletes of all ages and abilities to help them achieve success with energy to spare. Soccer athletes are hungry for good nutrition information. They have lots of food questions: • What should I eat before a game? • What about sports drinks? • How much protein should I be eating? Food Guide for Soccer: Tips & Recipes from the Pros will answer those questions—plus others. This easy-to-read book offers practical tips, debunks nutrition myths, and is a simple “how-to” resource for soccer players, their coaches and parents. The text is sprinkled with quotes from professional soccer players as well as recipes, sample menus, and nutrition sidebars.

Sports Nutrition for Endurance Athletes makes high-performance nutrition simple for running, cycling, triathlon, and swimming. Weighing in at 432 pages, this newly updated third edition is the most comprehensive resource on nutrition from the most experienced and highly qualified nutritionist in endurance sports. Ryan offers clear answers to the most fundamental questions in endurance sports nutrition--what should I eat, how much, and when--based on the latest research and experience from her 30-year career advising elite and age-group athletes and pro sports teams. She offers fine-tuning strategies for training and racing, optimal recovery, weight loss, and boosting strength-to-weight ratio. Citing rigorous and reputable studies, Ryan busts myths about ergogenic aids and supplements and offers a dose of reality to practices like fat loading and glycogen-depleted workouts. Since endurance sports are too different for a "one size fits all" food plan, Sports Nutrition for Endurance Athletes reveals how runners, cyclists, triathletes, and swimmers should fuel differently to gain real performance advantages in their sports. Even within each sport, optimal nutrition varies with the type and duration of events, so Ryan explains nutrition for short- and long-course triathlon; road, criterium, and mountain bike racing; 10K, half-marathon, and marathon; and sprint and distance swimming. This complete guide addresses a wide variety of special nutrition considerations for younger and older athletes, diabetics, vegetarians, pregnant women, and those with celiac disease or gluten intolerance. Sports Nutrition for Endurance Athletes also offers six appendixes of reference material including glycemic index, vitamin and mineral glossary, an up-to-date comparison of sports nutrition products, and sample menus. Smart nutrition can make the difference between a personal record and a lackluster season. Committed athletes and newcomers to endurance sports will both find Sports Nutrition for Endurance Athletes to be a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to better performance in running, cycling, triathlon, and swimming.