Updated and Expanded edition.
Whatever your sport, if you are an athlete, you know it is essential to have your body working at peak efficiency. You want your training to provide maximum benefit and you want to achieve peak performance when you compete, whether your goal is a Gold Medal or just personal satisfaction.
Dr Louise Burke presents nutrition as an integrated part of an athlete's total performance-enhancing package. She converts general nutrition and exercise physiology information into a plan for day-to-day training and competition preparation.
Outlining important differences in nutritional needs for different sports, including the timing of food and liquid intake and the best foods to achieve maximum energy, it contains case studies and discussions of typical dietary problems, enabling athletes and coaches to tailor a diet uniquely suited to individual needs, including the need for weight gain or loss.
Until you understand the relationship between nutrition and performance, you cannot manage your total program effectively. When everyone is highly talented, highly trained and highly motivated, nutrition will provide the winning edge that separates you from the rest.
