Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook / Edition 5

by Nancy Clark

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781450459938
Publisher:	Human Kinetics Publishers
Publication date:	10/11/2013
Edition description:	Fifth Edition
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.30(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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.

Table of Contents

Part I Everyday Eating for Active People

Chapter 1 Building a High-Energy Eating Plan

Chapter 2 Eating to Stay Healthy for the Long Run

Chapter 3 Breakfast: The Key to a Successful Sports Diet

Chapter 4 Lunch and Dinner: At Home, on the Run, and on the Road

Chapter 5 Snacking for Health and Sustained Energy

Chapter 6 Carbohydrate: Simplifying a Complex Topic

Chapter 7 Protein to Build and Repair Muscles

Chapter 8 Replacing Sweat Losses to Maintain Performance

Part II The Science of Eating for Exercise

Chapter 9 Fueling Before Exercise

Chapter 10 Fueling During and After Exercise

Chapter 11 Supplements, Performance Enhancers, and Engineered Sports Foods

Chapter 12 Nutrition for Active Women

Chapter 13 Sport-Specific Nutrition

Part III Balancing Weight and Activity

Chapter 14 Assessing Your Body: Fat, Fit, or Fine?

Chapter 15 Gaining Weight the Healthy Way

Chapter 16 Losing Weight Without Starving

Chapter 17 Dieting Gone Awry: Eating Disorders and Food Obsessions

Part IV Winning Recipes for Peak Performance

Chapter 18 Breads and Breakfasts

Chapter 19 Pasta, Rice, and Potatoes

Chapter 20 Vegetables and Salads

Chapter 21 Chicken and Turkey

Chapter 22 Fish and Seafood

Chapter 23 Beef and Pork

Chapter 24 Beans and Tofu

Chapter 25 Beverages and Smoothies

Chapter 26 Snacks and Desserts

What People are Saying About This

Tommy L. Owens

"Nancy Clark understands what it takes to be properly fueled for peak performance in any activity. Her experience as both athlete and nutritionist helped in creating a book that will benefit any athlete-serious, recreational, or weekend warrior."--(Tommy L. Owens, National Training Coordinator for Team in Training)

From the Publisher

"Nancy showed me how eating the right foods, at the right time, would both enhance performance and create a leaner physique. Those lessons, and many more, are included in Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook. It's a must-read for anyone involved in sport and fitness."

Jennifer Shultis
United States Adventure Racing National Champion
Captain of Team Eastern Mountain Sports

"Nancy Clark understands what it takes to be properly fueled for peak performance in any activity. Her experience as both athlete and nutritionist helped in creating a book that will benefit any athlete-serious, recreational, or weekend warrior.
Tommy L. Owens
National Training Coordinator for Team in Training

"The nutritional information in Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook helped me accomplish a lifelong goal of not only skating at the Olympics, but receiving the honor of becoming a silver medalist as well. I highly recommend her book."
Kitty Carruthers Conrad
Olympic Silver Medalist
United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame Member

Jennifer Shultis

"Nancy showed me how eating the right foods, at the right time, would both enhance performance and create a leaner physique. Those lessons, and many more, are included in Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook. It's a must-read for anyone involved in sport and fitness."--(Jennifer Shultis, US Adventure Racing National Champion, Captain of Team Eastern Mountain Sports)

Kitty Carruthers Conrad

"The nutritional information in Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook helped me accomplish a lifelong goal of not only skating at the Olympics, but receiving the honor of becoming a silver medalist as well. I highly recommend her book."--(Kitty Carruthers Conrad, Olympic Silver Medalist, United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame Member)

Interviews

Athletes and active individuals as well as personal trainers, sport nutritionists, dietitians, and other physical activity professionals.

Editorial Reviews

“[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

From the Publisher

YA-- As a consultant to the Boston Celtics, Clark is well equipped to advise sports aficionados on their training diets. Although her focus is primarily on the serious athlete, her nutrition tips can be useful to anyone desiring a healthy lifestyle. Discussion of the carbohydrate issue, foods to eat before and after exercising, fluids, and supplements are presented. There is also a section on weight control tips as well as suggestions for gaining weight. Healthful recipes with nutritional and caloric information complete the volume. Most of this is information is basic and is available elsewhere, but Clark's abundant use of charts and diagrams and her enthusiatic presentation make the book a winner. --Anne Paget, Episcopal High School, Bellaire, TX

School Library Journal

Reviewer: John M Kaltenborn, MS, ATC, PES (James Madison University)
Description: This is a good basic reference for athletes or anyone looking to increase their general knowledge about proper eating habits to achieve their activity goals. This updates the 2003 edition.
Purpose: The book provides readers with a general knowledge base to help them achieve desired exercise or activity goals through the proper use of food. In light of the many fad diets that are not healthy, this book is needed. It provides enough basic information to help readers achieve exercise/activity goals while maintaining an overall healthy eating plan.
Audience: It is intended for any active persons, athletes, or individuals interested in improving their physique, performance level, or lifestyle through better eating habits. Nancy Clark does an excellent job of addressing this audience. Since she has been lecturing and writing books on this subject for almost two decades, she is a very credible source of information.
Features: Among a multitude of topics surrounding eating for an active person/athlete, the book covers how to eat throughout the day, pre- and post-workouts, as well as eating healthy throughout a lifespan. It has an extensive recipe section, providing readers with hundreds of recipes in any food category needed to provide proper nutrition for performance. The appendixes provide ample references for further research as well as key terms to help readers better grasp the concepts discussed in the book. The one shortcoming is that it does not delve into the nutritional needs for different sports. This is a possible feature that some readers would find helpful.
Assessment: This edition is of the same high quality that Nancy Clark is known for. As someone who attended a two-day nutritional workshop of hers based on the second edition of this book, I am pleased to see that this fourth edition has taken into account the new food choices/companies as well as the fad diets that have come along since then and since the 2003 edition. She remains informative as well as topical in this area.

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