Title:
Advanced sports nutrition / Dan Benardot.
Nutrition for serious athletes.
Main Entry:
Benardot, Dan, 1949-
Benardot, Dan, 1949- Nutrition for serious athletes.
Publisher:
Human Kinetics,
Publication Date:
c2006.
Publication Place:
Champaign, Ill. :
ISBN:
0736059415 (soft cover)
Subject:
Athletes -- Nutrition.
Contents:
Nutritional sources for athletes -- Energy nutrients -- Vitamins and minerals -- Fluids and electrolytes -- Ergogenic aids -- Nutritional aspects of optimal performance -- Digestion and absorption -- Timing of energy and fluid intake -- Oxygen, nutrition and human performance -- Fuel and nutrient utilization inhibitors -- Factors affecting nutritional needs -- Travel -- High altitude -- Gender and age -- Body composition and weight goals -- Nutrition strategies for specific energy systems -- Anaerobic metabolism for high-intensity bursts and power -- Aerobic metabolism for endurance -- Metabolic needs of sports requiring power and endurance -- Nutrition plans for specific sports -- Power sports -- Endurance sports -- Power-endurance sports.
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