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The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition is the definitive practical handbook for anyone wanting a performance advantage. What you eat and drink are important considerations when it comes to maximising your sports performance. Whether you are a professional or amateur athlete, or just enjoy regular workouts, well-chosen nutrition strategies can enhance your performance and recovery after exercise. This fully updated and revised edition incorporates the latest cutting-edge research and provides all the tools to help you reach your performance goals. This ninth edition includes accessible guidance on the following topics: ┬╖ Maximising endurance, strength, performance and recovery ┬╖ How to calculate your optimal energy, carbohydrate and protein requirements┬╖ Advice on improving body composition┬╖ The most popular sports supplements ┬╖ Relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S) and eating disorders ┬╖ Hydration strategies to prevent hypohydration and overhydration ┬╖ Specific advice for masters athletes, young athletes and plant-based athletes┬╖ Nutrition strategies to prepare for competition┬╖ Immune health and recovery from injury┬╖ Gut health and how to avoid gut problems during exercise.

Over 100 exciting, healthy, and tasty vegan recipes, all easy and inexpensive to make, and packed with all the balanced nutrients you need to train, recover, and perform, created by a Registered and Sports Nutritionist.Whether you already live a vegan lifestyle, embrace a meat-free day each week, or you simply want to try some amazing flavor combinations, The Vegan Athlete's Cookbook will help you create fuss-free, healthy meals proving once and for all that vegan food can be super simple and incredibly tasty. Anita Bean's latest book is bursting with over 100 exciting vegan recipes, which are easy and inexpensive to make, and packed with all the nutrients you need to train, recover, and perform.If you are a vegan athlete the crucial issue is making sure to get enough protein to allow recovery--anyone taking their fitness seriously needs a carefully curated list of recipes to ensure that they get the protein they need.As well as delicious everyday recipes and cooking tips, the book also contains evidence-based advice on how to fuel your workouts and maximize your performance. It debunks vegan myths, demystifies sports nutrition, and will help you gain the confidence to create delicious, nourishing meals that will support your fitness goals.

More than 100 tempting recipes to fuel your runningWhether you're training for a marathon, a half-marathon, an ultra-distance event or just looking to improve your parkrun time, what you eat makes all the difference.This is the ultimate nutrition guide and cookbook for runners, packed with easy, delicious recipes and practical eating advice on how to prepare for 5k, 10k, half-marathons, marathons and ultra-races. Find out what to eat before, during and after your running sessions to get the most out of your training, with additional guidance on hydration, supplements and how to optimise recovery from injury. Enjoy more than 100 easy-to-prepare recipes - including breakfasts, salads, main meals, vegetarian main meals, desserts and snacks - all nutritionally balanced to help you go the extra mile and achieve your running goals.

Written by bestselling author and nutritionist Anita Bean, packed with 100 delicious, easy to prepare recipes. and featuring attractive food photography, this book is for anyone who works out regularly and is looking to exclude meat from their diet. The way we eat is changing. More and more of us are opting to eat less meat. And this includes people interested in sport - either vegetarians, or those of us simply looking to cut down on our meat intake. Eating well to support a training regime presents its own challenges - but you can eat healthily and reach your sporting potential without eating meat. This book shows you how to achieve your goals. Many athletes interested in adopting a meat free diet are worried about not getting the right nutrients to build muscle or perform well, and don''t know exactly what they should be eating in place of meat. Read this book to discover over 100 fast, healthy, tasty vegetarian and vegan recipes for breakfast, main meals, desserts, snacks and shakes - and all featuring nutritional analysis.

The ultimate vegetarian guide to eating well for optimum fitness.Grounded in scientific evidence, The Active Vegetarian''s Cookbook is part nutrition guide and part cookbook, showing you how you can eat well and improve your performance through vegetarian nutrition in a simple, fun way with 100 tasty recipes. It provides the inspiration you need to create quick delicious meals and snacks that are packed with nutrients yet are super-easy to make. Feature pages throughout the book demystify sports nutrition, debunk the myths surrounding vegetarian diets, and cover popular topics such as what to eat before and after exercise, how much protein you need and which supplements actually work. It will help you gain the confidence to create delicious, nourishing meals that will support your training goals.

Discusses recent research into the nutritional requirements of active women, and translates it into practical advice. Topics covered include bone health, body image, dieting, eating disorders and pregnancy. It is intended for fitness instructors, coaches, managers and teachers of female athletes.

The Complete Guides series blends expert information and accessibility. The Complete Guide to Strength Training is the ultimate resource for anyone wanting to increase strength and resculpt their body. Featuring proven training programmes and evidence-based nutritional guidance, it delivers comprehensive workouts for beginners, intermediates and elite athletes. This updated 5th edition includes: · New exercises and workouts · Brand new photos with detailed descriptions of over 100 exercises · Programmes for increasing strength, muscle and explosive power · Fat loss workouts · Bodyweight-based workouts · Plyometric training · Up to date cutting edge nutrition and supplementation advice for gaining muscle and reducing fat

Most diets make you eat less, yet this can leave you washed out and miserable. Understanding and controlling your appetite is the key to successful weight loss. Slim Secrets shows you how.- Learn how to think slim and act slim- Make food choices that control your hunger and enhance satiety- Manage 'portion distortion' and avoid overeating- Deals with eating psychology such as emotional eating and cravings With menu plans for breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts and snacks, Slim Secrets will help you gain control of your appetite and set you on the road to successful weight loss.

What are antioxidants, why do I need them and how do I get them?Diet or exercise - which is more effective for losing weight? How can I persuade my fussy children to eat vegetables? What can I eat to help me sleep better? Can certain foods really help my chances of avoiding cancer? Lorraine Kelly teams up with leading nutritionist Anita Bean to uncover the facts about food, nutrition and health. Written in a practical Q&A style, Nutrition Made Easy answers over one hundred questions, covering everything from the absolute basics of what we should be eating, to what to feed our children and the latest research into food and disease prevention. Topical, easy to dip into and written for people who want straight answers to their questions, this major new health title explodes the myths, cuts through the dieting industry jargon and gets straight to the facts about what we eat.

Contains meal ideas, including a section on creating healthier food for parties, with recipes from vegetable crisps and dips to blueberry muffins, as well as helpful hints and tips on creating wholesome lunchboxes and snacks.