Chris Carmichael's Food for Fitness
Eat Right to Train Right
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Publisher Description
From the New York Times Bestselling Authors comes the foods, the recipes, and the preparation methods you need to achieve your fitness, health, and weight-loss goals.
Active people require a nutrition program that keeps pace with their busy lifestyles and changing fitness goals, and that means eating the right foods to support their activity level throughout the year. Finding the right foods that supply fuel for more energy helps people achieve better fitness and enhanced health and weight loss.
Chris Carmichael, the coach of one of the world’s greatest athletes, teams up with renowned chef Mark Tarbell to offer healthful recipes that provide the energy, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants active individuals need to perform at their best. Elite athletes and weekend warriors alike have used Carmichael’s innovative nutrition periodization program to lead active, healthy, and high-energy lifestyles; now the foods and recipes they enjoy are available to everyone.
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Marathon runners, triathletes, long-distance runners, bicyclists and other very active adults are "a minority group living in a society struggling to cope with serious health issues." America's current focus on low-carb dieting is of no concern to them, but there are scant resources available to guide them through the morass of protein intake, hydration and carb-loading. With this comprehensive resource for fueling active bodies, Carmichael fills a much-needed gap. The author, Lance Armstrong's coach for 14 years, insists he doesn't want readers to eat calories to specifically balance out the energy they expend. Rather, they'd do well to follow his in-depth program, which matches activity with food by periods, breaking the year into four big segments: foundation, preparation, specialization and transition. The amount of energy you burn changes as you go through weeks, months and a year of training, and eating the same basic number of calories all year results in over- and under-eating during certain months. It's a perfectly commonsense method, and Carmichael expounds upon it with charts and graphs that give facts on everything from sources of calcium to high-quality grains and cereals. Although the quantity of information can be dizzying, persistent and diligent elite athletes will come away from this book with plenty of ideas on how food can help them excel.
