Fuel for Young Athletes

Fuel for Young Athletes

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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.

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Author:	Ann Litt
Paperback:	192 pages
Publisher:	Human Kinetics
Publication Date:	October 14, 2003
Language:	English
ISBN:	0736046526
Product Length:	10.01 inches
Product Width:	7.01 inches
Product Height:	0.49 inches
Product Weight:	0.93 pounds
Package Length:	9.8 inches
Package Width:	7.2 inches
Package Height:	0.5 inches
Package Weight:	0.85 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 4 reviews

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9 of 9 found the following review helpful:

Learned how to plan out a winning diet plan for year-round swimmers Sep 17, 2010
By Bryan Burwick
Parents are always asking around at swim meets and practices, "what do you feed your swimmer? During the race day? At night or for breakfast before the next meet?" We feel responsible for making sure our kids have enough of the right stuff to eat to swim fast during the day, and yet not eat to much they make themselves sick or slow them down.
I read the bulk of this book within a couple hours. It was organized extremely well. The beginning of the book talks about foundations of nutrition as they relate to young athletes and differentiating them from non-athletes. Then it provided great rules of thumb about what and when to eat depending on the type of sport your young athlete is involved.

My children are year-round swimmers. I never thought about the fact that their nutrition needs for 3 hours of endurance training are completely different than race days where they swim in short spurts of a minute or two. This book helped us understand these facts and create a winning diet plan for both situations.

The ideas in this book helped me answer so many of my questions that I've recommended and lent this book to several parents on our swim team.

1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

OUTDATED IDEAS Nov 21, 2011
By E. J. Sajdak "polkabilly"
The information is based on the outdated Food Pyramid and not new nutritional guidelines. You keep wondering how the recommendations would change if the authors were aware of the new guidelines. The water consumption info is useful.

Excellent resource Jul 23, 2011
By jnw
This book explains the importance of nutrition for athletes very effectively. The suggestions are very helpful and the recipes work well.

Helpful information Jun 07, 2011
By C. Emme "Proud Momma"
This book contains exactly the kind of info I was searching for (young athlete diet, rest, hygiene, nutrition and hydration) and so much more. It's easy to read, clearly stated and well organized. Every child and parent will definitely benefit from this book weather your child is an active athlete or a backyard fun-monkey.

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