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High-Performance Nutrition for Masters Athletes

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By (author): Lauren A. Antonucci

Its an undisputed fact that the bodys physiological needs change as you age. But that doesnt mean you cant continue to compete and perform at your best. In High-Performance Nutrition for Masters Athletes, youll find practical advice for fueling your active lifestylenow and for decades to come.

The key to effectively adapting your nutrition plans is first understanding how needs change over time and how expected results shift through the decades. Explore the science behind proper fueling for training and competition with the current guidelines for carbohydrate, protein, and fat intake plus advice on proper hydration, avoiding the dangers of underfueling, and nutrition for optimal recovery.

High-Performance Nutrition for Masters Athletes will then take you inside the fueling strategies for precompetition, competition, and recovery:
  • Gain an understanding of the need for different types or amounts of nutrients at different times and get easy-to-follow guidance on how to meet those needs.
  • Learn how to energize with carbohydrate, build muscle with protein, and meet your hydration needs for optimal athletic performance.
  • Know the role vitamins, minerals, and supplements can play in a nutrition plan and how devastating underfueling can be to athletic performance.
  • Understand how chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease affect nutritional needs.
  • Use the sample meal plans to help customize meals and snacks and reset eating habits to meet the needs of training and competition.
Plus, throughout the book you will find accounts of amazing individualsboth well-known elite athletes and Olympians and everyday athleteswho have adapted their nutrition and training regimes to stay at the top of their game year in and year out.

Comprehensive yet practical, High-Performance Nutrition for Masters Athletes provides the latest research, guidance, and strategies that you need to train harder, perform stronger, and recover faster. Fuel smart, and never let age slow you down.

Earn continuing education credits/units! A continuing education exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately or as part of a package that includes both the book and exam. See more
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  • Weight: 567g
  • Publication Date: 26 Feb 2021
  • Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781492592976

About Lauren A. Antonucci

Lauren Antonucci RDN CSSD CDE CDN is the owner and director of Nutrition Energy where she creates individualized plans that fit the lifestyle of each client helps them develop a healthy relationship with food and their bodies and guides them to reach their nutrition and health goals. She is a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) is certified by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics as a specialist in sports dietetics (CSSD) and is certified by the National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators as a diabetes educator (CDE). Antonucci has been running swimming and cycling for as long as she can remember and has completed 13 marathons (PR 3:09) three Ironman Triathlons and countless other running and triathlon races. She is a sought-after presenter on the topic of sports nutrition and hydration and she has presented at many professional conferences including American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) USA Triathlon International Coaching Symposium the Greater New York Dietetic Association (GNYDA) and many New York Road Runners (NYRR) events and New York City Marathon Expos. She has also presented to numerous collegiate athletic teams most running and triathlon teams and clubs in New York City and many corporate organizations. Antonucci wrote a nutrition column for Triathlete magazine for three years and wrote for New York Road Runners magazine for over a decade. She has appeared on several television programs to provide practical advice on a wide array of nutrition and health topics and her advice has also been featured in Runners World Ironmanlive.com NYTimes.com Diabetes Self-Management Time Out New York Metrosports and many other publications. She earned a bachelors degree in psychobiology from Binghamton University was awarded a fellowship in nutritional biochemistry at University of California at Berkeley and earned a masters degree in clinical nutrition from New York University. She lives in New York City with her husband and three children and is a proud Masters athlete.

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