"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 youre 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.
Softcover, illustrated, 180 pages.
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