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Sports Nutrition for Women
With most sports reference material geared toward men, reliable information for women engaged in sports has been scarce. Authors Anita Bean and Peggy Wellington remedy the situation with Sports Nutrition for Women, a current and comprehensive resource. Aimed at a wide audience of sportswomen, health club participants, and elite competitors, as well as coaches, managers, nutritionists, and anyone working with female athletes, this book contains chapters on the menstrual cycle, amenorrhea, bone health, and much more. With each chapter introduced by an expert in the field, the book covers such topics as body fat, weight management, body image, and eating disorders. Sports Nutrition for Women also addresses the needs of pregnant and older women and includes useful eating plans.
Fitness Training for Girls
Sorting through the mental, physical, and emotional aspects of a girl's life during her teen years, this guide presents positive reasons and practical advice for making fitness a permanent part of her life. As society becomes more accepting of truly athletic women, teen girls are encouraged to overcome a "quitter's mentality" and develop physical confidence and mental toughness. A variety of nutrition tips and fitness facts allow girls to design individual workouts. Also included is information geared toward teens on weight lifting, cardiovascular conditioning, joining a gym, and working out at home.
The Female Athlete's Body Book
As reviewed by Sarah Judson of Gunnison, Colorado for Amazon.com:
"This is one of the most readable books on being a female athete. There is information in this book not found in any other text. Dr, Beim is an accomplished surgeon, mom and author. I would recommend this for all ages of girls and moms interested in sports. This information is for the non-professional as well as the prosfessional athlete. This a a great book...Worth every dime."
Sports Medicine Bible
Dr. Micheli responds to the need for more and better answers to the questions posed by recreational athletes desperate for sound medical advice that will help them return to their physical regimens as quickly as possible. This book covers the whole spectrum of sports medicine, including special sections on nutrition, female-specific sports injuries, exercise and the elderly, structuring a workout, flexibility and strength, clothing and footwear, and proper equipment. Separate chapters examine causes and symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of injuries to the foot; ankle; lower leg; knee; thigh; hip, pelvis, and groin; back; shoulder; elbow; wrist; hand and finger; head and neck; and skin. Written in clear, straightforward language with hundreds of illustrations, The Sports Medicine Bible is destined to become an essential piece of equipment in every athlete's gym bag.
Sports Medicine Bible for Young Athletes
The co-author, Lyle J. Micheli, is the former President of the American College of Sports Medicine, and in this book he addresses the particular problems associated with the risk of sports injuries to young athletes. It covers everything from how to know if your coach is overtraining your young athlete and risking injury, the role of nutrition and stress on young athletes, special considerations for young female athletes, and how to avoid repetitive-use injuries (a common problem in rowing).
Nutrition and the Female Athlete
Whether you exercise for fun, or in competitive situations, you should understand the important role nutrition plays in fitness. This useful new text focuses on nutrition as it specifically relates to female athletes. It addresses topics of major importance to women in sports, coaches, trainers, sports nutritionists, and physicians. Each chapter is a "mini-course" on a particular aspect of nutrition. Subjects include the nutritional practices of female athletes; the requirements for carbohydrates, proteins, and fats; details on vitamins and minerals, with special emphasis on the nutrients of importance to female athletes; the role of water and electrolytes, including prevention of dehydration and guidelines for optimal fluid replacement; body weight and composition; factors affecting energy balance; how to achieve a healthy competitive weight, and an overview of eating disorders in athletes, including definitions and diagnostic criteria, prevalence, risk factors, and effects on health and performance.
Play Hard, Eat Right
Expert Nutrition and Health Advice that Will Help Keep Your Child in the Game Whether it’s training for a big track meet, rehearsing for tomorrow’s dance recital, or playing a casual backyard game of catch, your child’s athletic performance, development, and growth depend largely on eating the right foods. Now the largest and most prestigious organization of food and nutrition professionals in the world shows you how to help foster your child’s development and maximize athletic performance. The American Dietetic Association’s Play Hard, Eat Right gives insight into your active 6- to 12-year-old’s changing nutrition needs and provides the tools you need to help your child get a head start, including:
Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook
What's the best diet for good health and athletic performance? Nancy Clark, M.S., R.D., describes the dietary balance and specific foods shown to be optimal for athletes from recreational exercisers to Olympic hopefuls, citing supporting studies. Refreshingly free of high-protein hype, Clark emphasizes a varied, wholesome, moderate diet high in complex carbohydrates ("without question, wholesome carbohydrates are the best choices for fueling your muscles and promoting good health"), especially whole grains and starches; adequate but not excessive protein; and 20 to 35 percent fat. Learn the components and variables of your ideal diet, with tables of nutritional information and marvelous tidbits, such as calorie/fat counts of various fast foods...Highly recommended for athletes, exercisers, and average folk who want to understand how to design a personalized diet. (Review by Joan Price for Amazon.com).
The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition
Editorial reviews for this book:
"Ideal for those who want to enhance performance and boost energy levels" - Health and Fitness
"A really excellent manual/refernce work: lucid, thorough, sound and readily accessible" -Coaching News.
"...provides cutting-edge information to help any athlete succeed..."--Pennsylvania Sports & Fitness.
"...a good reference for how to eat a balanced diet..."--Triathlete.
"Ideal for those who want to enhance performance and boost energy levels" - Health and Fitness
"A really excellent manual/refernce work: lucid, thorough, sound and readily accessible" -Coaching News.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sports Nutrition
A sought-after sports nutritionist offers recreational and competitive athletes alike the secrets to improved performance in any sport through specialized nutrition. From explaining how to tweak the protein, fats, and carbs in your diet to enhance performance to taking readers through pre- and post-game planning, this book offers the complete, inside track on sports nutrition.
A reviewer on Amazon.com writes: "When I saw this book I thought this was just another nutrtion book but boy was I wrong. I am an athletic director at a local college and I have recommened that all my athletes go out and get this book. It teaches you how to stay active and healthy at the same time. I reccomend this book not only for athletes, coaches and other athletic directors but to the average person!!!"
Complete Conditioning for the Female Athlete
Women athletes are strong, powerful and dedicated to their sports. And they have specific needs when it comes to training and conditioning. Female athletes don't need another conditioning book that is written for men with a chapter about women tacked on as an afterthought. With Complete Conditioning for Female Athletes women can learn how to train their bodies for great performance in their sport.
The needs of a volleyball player are different from that of a dancer; the needs of a martial artist are different from that of a swimmer. Each sport is different. It's a simple concept that can create big headaches when designing a training program. This book gives women the information they need about their bodies and their sports to design the best possible training programs. Whether she is looking for speed, size or power, she will learn what sport-specific exercises and training methods offer the right results - and what ones won't work for her sport.
Complete Conditioning for Female Athletes is a comprehensive resource that includes information on muscle types and fibers, plyometrics, aerobic training, overtraining, flexibility, speed, injuries, nutrition, stress, harassment, mental conditioning, and scientific findings from the world's top researchers. Much more than a general conditioning book, women will rely on the sport-specific advice and information.
Feeding the Young Athlete
Review by Barb L. for Amazon.com:
"I have owned this book for 1 year and it is well worn. The concepts are easy to understand and make sense. I have loaned this to our swim coaches and the mom of our local High school football star. The recipes are easy to prepare and most important...taste good. I really like the section on Team Dinners...lots of great suggestions. Buy two right away because people borrow this little book all the time."
Endurance Sports Nutrition (2nd Edition)
Find your endurance advantage in the foods you eat. Endurance Sports Nutrition will help you select the best foods, fluids, and supplements to train longer, recover more quickly, avoid injuries, and achieve your performance goals in any endurance endeavor.
Sports dietitian and former elite runner Suzanne Girard Eberle provides a proven fueling program that addresses the unique needs of endurance athletes:
Road and trail running: 5K to 100+ miles
Cycling and mountain biking: time trials to multiday rides
Duathlon and triathlon: sprint to Ironman
Winter sports: Nordic ski races to mountain ascents
Water sports: rowing and long-distance swimming
Environmental conditions: extreme temperatures and high altitude
Complete with customizable menu plans, profiles and advice from elite endurance athletes, and strategies for avoiding the most common pitfalls of endurance athletes, Endurance Sports Nutrition will fuel your best performance.
Raising our Athletic Daughters
Review by Jeff Silverman for Amazon.com: "...(Since) boys' athletic programs receive more attention, ... girls' programs must work harder just to keep pace.... Despite the obstacles, sports function as the leveler. "There is growing awareness that girls enjoy sports and that sports are good for girls," stress the husband-and-wife team of Zimmerman and Reavill. "New evidence is developing which indicates that girls who play sports tend to avoid the physical, psychological, and social pitfalls of adolescence."
To prove their point, the authors traveled the country and collected stories from young women and their parents on the way sports are influencing female lives today. Theirs is a heartening report, rendered textured and real by the many individual voices gathered here. Sports clearly have a measurable, positive impact on young women who participate: substance abuse and pregnancy rates are lower than those of nonathletes, and female athletes are more likely to pursue a college education. Less tangibly, but no less significantly, sports help build self-esteem, fostering independence, teaching leadership and teamwork, and providing powerful role models....
Inspiring as it is, Raising Our Athletic Daughters isn't satisfied with just inspiring; it also serves as a clearinghouse for lots of practical information. It explores the physical and emotional benefits--and pitfalls--specific to young women and changing bodies. It weighs the values of coed vs. single-sex team sports. It looks at how extreme sports have become viable alternatives to the more traditional basketball, softball, soccer, gymnastics, etc. It examines the role of parents, and ends with a comprehensive bibliography and resource list of useful organizations and contacts throughout the United States. Daughters deserve nothing less.
The Complete Athlete: Integrating Fitness, Nutrition, & Natural Health
The concept of an integrated approach to fitness, nutrition and natural health is not new, but having the material gathered together in a single book is. The Complete Athlete will encourage you to attain optimum performance by developing more than just sport-specific skills... a lot more. For author John Winterdyk and Karen Jensen, The Complete Athlete is the ideal synthesis of diet, physical training, self-knowledge, mental disciple and sheer love of exercise.
Presented in lively and readable form, The Complete Athlete bridge the gulf between natural health and cross-training. Whether you are a recreational or an elite athlete, you will find all the information you will need to attain optimum performance, including:
* Developing a personalized training program based on your own abilities and goals
* Perfecting swimming, running and cycling techniques
* Preparing nutritious, energy boosting meals and snacks
* Preventing and treating injuries with herbs, homeopathy and other natural methods
* Reducing mental and physical stress, overcoming self-doubt and staying motivated
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