The endurance diet : discover the 5 core habits of the world's greatest athletes to look, feel, and perform better

The endurance diet Discover the 5 core habits of the world's greatest athletes to look, feel, and perform better

Matt Fitzgerald

Book - 2016

"Sports nutritionist Matt Fitzgerald has spent nearly twenty years studying the diets of top professional endurance athletes, who are among the fittest and healthiest people in the world. As a result, he has identified five core habits--most of which are contrary to what popular diets advise--that are essential to maximizing workout benefits. The Endurance Diet shares key strategies for optimal health and performance: eat everything, eat quality, eat carbohydrate, eat enough, and eat individually. Whether you want to lose weight, win a race, or look a little more like an elite athlete, this plan is for you. "I am always amazed at how much I learn from Matt Fitzgerald's books."--Shalane Flanagan, Olympic bronze medalist&q...uot;--

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Subjects
Physical fitness.
Exercise > Physiological aspects.
Health.
Published
Boston, MA : Da Capo Lifelong Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2016.
Language
English
Main Author
Matt Fitzgerald (author)
Edition
First Da Capo Press edition
Physical Description
xv, 275 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-267) and index.
ISBN
9780738218977
  • Foreword
  • 1. The Diet of the World's Fittest People
  • 2. Why You Should Eat Like an Elite
  • 3. Habit 1: Eat Everything
  • 4. Habit 2: Eat Quality
  • 5. Habit 3: Eat Carb-Centered
  • 6. Habit 4: Eat Enough
  • 7. Habit 5: Eat Individually
  • 8. Building Elite Eating Habits
  • 9. Fine-Tuning Your Endurance Diet
  • 10. Endurance "Superfoods"
  • 11. Endurance Diet Recipes
  • 12. Diet-Exercise Synergy
  • Appendix A. A Perfect Day Sample Table
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author
Review by Booklist Review

Even if you can't be an Olympic athlete, you may be able to eat like one. Sports nutritionist Fitzgerald observes, interviews, and dines with some of the world's fittest folks marathon runners, triathletes, cross-country skiers, cyclists and finds that elite endurance athletes share similar eating habits. He believes there are lessons to be learned for us ordinary exercisers. Behold the endurance diet, five tantalizing tenets that, along with regular exercise, Fitzgerald believes will lead to enhanced vigor and athletic performance. Eat enough. Eat everything. Eat quality. Eat individually. Eat carb centered. How can you not salivate over a diet like that? Cease counting calories and trust your appetite. Embrace your omnivorous self. Renounce carbophobia. Carbohydrates (generally reviled as bad calories) provide the main fuel for extreme exercise. Yet understand no single dietary schedule fits every individual exercise. For example, Kenyan distance runners obtain about 75 percent of their total daily calories from carbohydrates. Johnny Weissmuller, star of Tarzan movies and a sensational swimmer in the 1920s, existed chiefly on a diet of ice cream and hot dogs. Informative, entertaining, and unconventional.--Miksanek, Tony Copyright 2017 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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