Fuel for Young Athletes

by Ann Litt

Book Overview

Young athletes need more than practice to succeed in sport. They need a proper diet that will leave them energized and able to perform their best throughout the entire game. Whether you're a coach, parent, or nutritionist, you can help young athletes fuel for energy, development, and performance through the sound nutritional guidelines presented in Fuel for Young Athletes . Author Ann Litt, a frequently consulted nutritionist, columnist, and mother of two teenage athletes, presents the most essential guidelines for athletes in middle school through high school. Litt provides a complete resource filled with practical advice that coaches, parents, and even athletes themselves can apply directly to the training table. Among the topics she covers are -food and fluid guidelines for young athletes, -food plans tailored to the specific energy needs of 11 sports, -recipe and snack ideas that appeal to teens and give them extra power on the playing fields and courts, -fuel for muscle development and bone growth, -eating for endurance training, -tactics for safely gaining and losing weight, -dietary supplements, -high-performance meal planning, -eating well in fast-food restaurants, and -strategies for disordered eating. Fuel for Young Athletes helps growing athletes meet their nutritional needs and guides them toward both optimal health and athletic success.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0736046526
• ISBN13: 9780736046527
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher