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Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook Paperback – October 11, 2013
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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.
- Print length520 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHuman Kinetics
- Publication dateOctober 11, 2013
- Reading age18 years and up
- Dimensions6 x 1 x 9 inches
- ISBN-109781450459938
- ISBN-13978-1450459938
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“[Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook is] the go-to manual for active people to fuel their exercise endeavors… With a focus on sports nutrition, you’re not focused so much on losing, but on gaining. You’re gaining speed, strength and stamina along with mental acuity and improved wellbeing. Yes, it’s also a great recipe for fat loss, but the dropping of excess poundage, again, is a side benefit rather than a primary focus. And that’s what makes it sustainable. Sports nutrition is about the journey rather than the destination. Diet books come and go, but Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook continues to be the book of choice for those who want to find out what they’re physically capable of… [The book] made all the difference for me. I had done reasonably well in my fitness journey, having lost 30 pounds of fat and gained a fair amount of muscle, but around 2003 was when I really wanted to up my game. I wanted to get faster and stronger and leaner. The director of health and fitness programs at the University of Calgary recommended Nancy’s book to me, and that was the start of changing how I viewed everything to do with food and fueling athletic performance. A decade later I’m a muscular Boston Marathon qualifier who can see his abs. Thanks, Nancy.”
James S. Fell-- Author of Lose It Right: A Brutally Honest 3-Stage Program to Get Fit and Lose Weight Without Losing Your Mind
About the Author
Nancy Clark, MS, RD, CSSD, renowned author and board-certified specialist in sports dietetics, is known for her ability to translate the science of nutrition for exercise and health into practical tips to enhance performance, manage weight, and resolve eating disorders. She has a private practice in the Boston-area (Newton, MA), where she offers nutrition consultations to both casual exercisers and competitive athletes. Her more renowned clients have included members of the Boston Red Sox, the Boston Celtics, and many collegiate, elite, and Olympic athletes from a variety of sports. She is team nutritionist for the Boston Red Sox.
An internationally known lecturer, Clark has given presentations to professional groups such as the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) (formerly known as the American Dietetic Association) and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), as well as team talks to athletes at Boston-area colleges. Clark offers workshops nationally to health professionals with her sports nutrition workshop series. As a part of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training Virtual Marathon Training Program, Clark helps novice runners complete the distance.
Clark received her bachelor’s degree in nutrition from Simmons College in Boston and her master’s degree in nutrition from Boston University. She completed her internship in dietetics at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is a fellow of the American Dietetic Association, recipient of its Media Excellence Award, an active member of ADA’s practice group of sports nutritionists (SCAN), and a recipient of that group’s Honor Award. In addition, Clark is a fellow of the ACSM and a recipient of the Honor Award from ACSM’s New England chapter. Clark received the 2015 Nutrition Science Media Award from the American Society of Nutrition.
Clark is the nutrition columnist for New England Runner and American Fitness and is a frequent contributor to numerous sports and fitness publications. She writes a monthly nutrition column called “The Athlete’s Kitchen,” which appears regularly in over 100 sports publications and Web sites. She has authored Nancy Clark’s Food Guide for Marathoners: Tips for Everyday Champions and The Cyclist’s Food Guide: Fueling for the Distance.
She lives in the Boston area.
Product details
- ASIN : 1450459935
- Publisher : Human Kinetics; Fifth edition (October 11, 2013)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 520 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9781450459938
- ISBN-13 : 978-1450459938
- Reading age : 18 years and up
- Item Weight : 1.63 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #248,586 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #368 in Running & Jogging (Books)
- #372 in Sports Training (Books)
- #1,892 in Other Diet Books
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About the authors
Technically speaking, I am a registered dietitian (RD) who specializes in sports nutrition. In reality, I am a listener, translator of science into practical food tips, and a problem-solver when it comes to fueling for sports and eating for life. I am also active with sports, being a bike commuter, runner, gardener, walker, etc.
I counsel sports-active people (from fitness exercisers to competitive athletes) in my private practice in Newton, MA (just outside of Boston) as well as talk to teams and groups. I use these experiences to learn what people want to know about how to eat for sports and life, and then write books, blogs, and monthly articles to help others with similar concerns.
I'm proud that my Sports Nutrition Guidebook has thrived for more than 20 years as one of the best-selling sports nutrition resources. It's even used as a textbook in high school and college nutrition/health classes--and the new 5th edition comes with an Instructor's Guide.
I've refined my knowledge to write sport-specific nutrition guidebooks for new runners, marathoners, cyclists and soccer players. I hope the information in my books will help YOU win with good nutrition. (And if you would prefer learning from an online sports nutrition workshop instead of reading my book, check out www.NutritionSportsExerciseCEUs.com.)
Be smart, eat wisely, live well -- and enjoy high energy.
Nancy Clark MS RD
Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD)
Author, Counselor, Speaker, Workshop leader
http://www.nancyclarkrd.com
http://www.NutritionSportsExerciseCEUs.com
I started my career as a sports dietitian at a time when few people realized the powerful impact food has on performance. Times have changed! Today, most of my clients come to me admitting "nutrition is my missing link." They realize they could get more from their workouts if only they could eat better.
In my "Sports Nutrition Guidebook" as well as my food guides for new runners, marathoners, cyclists and soccer players, I share years of my experiences with counseling both casual exercisers and competitive athletes, helping them win with good nutrition. Some win by losing undesired body fat. Others win by running faster, lifting heavier weight, enjoying a marathon without hitting the wall, or by finding the right balance of food and exercise.
I hope you enjoy my books. They are written from my passion for helping people enjoy food as one of life's pleasures, as well as an energizer for this marathon called "life." For more information, please see my website, http://www.nancyclarkrd.com.
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1) It explains in easy terms the key concepts, diets,, assessment methods, etc. Everything in the book is easy to understand.
2) It gives good details. This is not a thin book, but it is not overwhelming - especially when you search for a topic. It gives you what I think is pretty much the perfect level of detail. It has subsections for different types of people and athletes. For example pregnant women, winter sport athletes, etc. Great way to give specific advice that really helps.
3) Nancy has hit the trifecta with the last point - examples and visual aids. Be it a diagram of a plate, or tables of different recovery nutrients, or great recipes, this book is not just an ivory tower guide, it gives you practical and easy to understand information.
Note - I received this book in exchange for my review, but I loved it so much I have purchased the Kindle edition to have on the go, that should tell you how much I love it!
I loved the first edition I had and this book is even better. It is well worth the price. I will find myself going back to it over and over as a reference.
Where the text conflicts and dates itself is mentioned in many comments. Yes, she recommends cereal and energy bars and other foods that are not clean and contain preservatives. She states fat-not sugar-is the culprit to weight gain when we know if your diet contains too much of either that causes weight gain. She makes a valid and scientifically proven point that hydrogenated oil is the mother of all disease producers, yet recommends peanut butter and jelly sandwiches-two for extreme athletes-as a snack. She admits to eating them daily. Yet we know peanut butter single-handedly contains more hydrogenated oil than any other food. The reader can only presume she eats organic?
Here is the take away....science always changes their recommendations. Yes, eat eggs. Whoops. No, don’t eat eggs...too much cholesterol. You can’t change your diet or work out based on the latest data. It is fluid and ever changing. Stick with tried and true methods....the classic advice that always works. If your diet is 80/20 and primarily contains real food not produced in a lab and full of preservatives and fillers, if you are eating consistently to fuel your body, if you listen to your body and stop eating when satisfied, not full (another excellent point the author makes) and if you stay active, you will be living a pretty clean, healthy lifestyle.
If you want to split hairs over every word written, you will find many opportunities to do so. If you want good, general advice, you will find many examples of that, too. As with any occasion where you are listening and learning from others, you take the good and apply it and throw the bad advice out.
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