Advanced Sports Nutrition

Advanced Sports Nutrition
Fine-Tune Your Food And Fluid Intake For Optimal Training And Performance
Dan Benardot, PhD, RD, FACSM

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Description
Athletes and coaches are continually seeking ways to maximize efforts in both training and performance. Advanced Sports Nutrition provide the best research-and results-based information and advice that athletes need to gain an edge physically. Far beyond the typical food pyramid formula, this comprehensive guide represents cutting-edge nutritional concepts tailored for application by athlete in any sport.

World-renowned sports nutritionist Dr. Dan Benardot breaks down the chemistry of improved performance into winning principle that ensure an athlete’s key energy systems are properly stocked at all times:
• Time meals, snacks, fluids, training, and performances to maintain that crucial energy balance throughout each day.
• Digest optimal ratios and quantities of energy nutrients, vitamins, and minerals for any sport.
• Consume the right amount of fluid and electrolytes to avoid dehydration and hyperhydration.
• Identify and maintain a body composition capable to maximal power output with minimal excess weight for specific sports.
• Understand the effects of travel, high altitude, and age on nutritional needs and performance.

The best conditioning regimens and technical instruction are beneficial only if the body’s engine is properly fueled and ready to operate at peak efficiency. Use Advanced Sports Nutrition to ensure that your body is running on the highest-grade fuel every time you train or compete.

Level: Intermediate
ISBN: 0736059415
ISBN-13: 9780736059411
Format: Paperback, 341pp
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Pub date: 2005

Content
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Nutritional Sources for Athletes
Energy
Nutrients
Vitamins and Minerals
Fluids and Electrolytes
Ergogenic Aids

Part II. Nutritional Aspects of Optimal Performance
Digestion and Absorption
Timing of Energy and Fluid Intake
Efficient Delivery of Oxygen
Inhibitors of Fuel and Nutrient Utilization

Part III. Factors Affecting Nutritional Needs
Travel
High Altitude
Gender and Age
Body Composition and Weight

Part IV. Nutritional Strategies for Specific Energy Systems
Anaerobic Metabolism for High-Intensity Bursts and Power
Aerobic Metabolism for Endurance
Metabolic Needs for Both Power and Endurance

Part V. Nutritional Plans for Specific Sports
Sports Requiring Power and Speed
Sports Requiring Endurance
Sports Requiring Combined Power and Endurance

Appendix: Food Exchange List
Endnotes
Index
About the Author

Book author
Dan Benardot, PhD, DHC, RD, LD, FACSM, is an associate professor in the nutrition division of the School of Health Professions at Georgia State University and an associate professor in the department of kinesiology and health, also at Georgia State University. He serves as codirector of the Laboratory for Elite Athlete Performance, where athletes receive training and nutrition plans that assist tem in their pursuit of athletic excellence. As the national team nutritionist and a founding member of the Athlete Wellness Program for USA Gymnastics, Benardot worked with the gold-medal-winning women’s Gymnastics team at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and also worked with the medal-winning USA marathoners art the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. He has served as an officer of the US Figure Skating Sports Medicine Society and has had his research funded by several organizations, including the US Olympic Committee.

Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 2 Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
1070 Leadership, critical and strategic thinking
1120 Time and stress management, life balance
2110 Physiology, exercise physiology
4030 Dietary guidelines, DRIs, Food Guide Pyramid, food labeling
4060 Exercise, fitness and sports nutrition
6030 Education theories and techniques for adults
6080 Training, coaching and mentoring