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Sports Nutrition for Endurance Athletes, 3rd Edition Review.

The 3rd edition of the Sports Nutrition for Endurance Athletes is written by Monique Ryan a world renowned nutritionist. Monique Ryan MS RD CSSD LDN has over 30 years experience in the world of performance sports nutrition. She is also the founder of Sports Nutrition Designs a Chicago based business.

Book Layout:

Part I

Your Daily Performance Diet

Optimal Nutrition for Training and Health

Daily Hydration Essential. Drinking it In

Energy Nutrients for Optimal Health and Performance: Build a Solid   Nutrition Base

Vitamins, Minerals and Electrolytes: The Nuts Bolts and Spark Plugs of Your Diet

Part II

Your Training Diet

Fine Tuning your Diet for Top Performance

Your Daily Training Diet: Eating for Optimal Recovery

Food an Fluid Intake for Training and Competition: Timing is Everything

Weight Loss, Muscle Building an Changing Body Composition: Boosting Your Strength to Weight Ratio

Ergogenic Aids: Separating Fact and Fiction

Part III

Your Sports-Specific Nutritional Guidelines

Putting Your Sports Plan Into Action

Nutrition for Triathletes (and other Multisport Events)

Nutrition for Cycling (Road Cycling, Mountain Biking, Track Cycling and Cyclocross)

Nutrition for Distance Running

Nutrition for Swimming

Part IV

Special Nutritional Considerations

Meeting and Managing Your Challenges

The Athlete with Unique Nutritional Considerations

Performance Boosts and Problem Solving with Nutrition

Nutritional Strategies for Extreme Environments

Part I of the book introduces the reader to some valuable information. This is required to easily continue and understand the rest of the book. `the book contain quite a amount of information. A considerable amount of the information is quite detailed and does require a lot of attention during reading

The book tends to duplicate some of its information while discussing the various different endurance sports such as running, cycling, swimming and triathlon. It will also answer almost any questions you may have regarding your diet and hydration throughout a full training cycle and racing period. The book also discusses subjects from "The Body's Energy Systems" to "Nutrition to Beat Illness".

Sample meal plans are presented in the back of the book along with some case notes and a worksheet for calculating or should I say estimating one sweat loss post exercise/training. Also supplied is a spreadsheet of sports nutrition products. They are all detailed and compared making it easy for one to select which might be more beneficial for a particular event. Other chart and Spreadsheets include

Glossary of Vitamins and Minerals and there functions

Glycemic Index of Foods

Long Distance Race Nutrition Planner

Sprint and Olympic Race Nutrition Planner

Summary of Ergogenic Aids

Many More

Sports Nutrition for Endurance Athletes will cover 99% of your questions and will be well used after reading for further reference.

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Hit Your Fastest Weight This Season with the New Racing Weight Boulder, CO, USA - January 16, 2013 - Certified sports nutritionist and best-selling author Matt Fitzgerald has updated his proven weight-management programme for athletes in the new second edition of Racing Weight: How to Get Lean for Peak Performance. Three out of four endurance athletes are concerned about their body weight because they know that excess fat hurts their performance. Now endurance athletes can hit their fastest race weight with the best-selling weight-loss plan for cyclists, triathletes, runners, and swimmers. Racing Weight, 2nd Ed. is now available in the UK at good bookshops or direct from www.cordee.co.uk. Preview the book and find weight-loss tips for athletes at the all-new website www.racingweight.com.  Being lean offers endurance athletes a powerful performance advantage. Among elites, studies have shown that the fastest athletes are the leanest. Lean athletes conserve energy, dissipate heat faster, and even gain more fitness from every workout. But dieting is dangerous for athletes, harming their training and actually worsening their fat-to-muscle ratio. Racing Weight is the comprehensive weight-management plan designed specifically for athletes.  Racing Weight is based on the latest science-and the best practices of elite athletes. Six simple steps will get athletes to their fastest weight. Athletes will estimate their off-season and race weights and begin the Racing Weight programme to hit their numbers on the scale and on the race course. The Racing Weight plan shows athletes how to improve diet quality, manage appetite, balance energy sources, time meals and snacks, easily monitor weight and performance, and train to get-and stay-lean. The new edition of Racing Weight offers improvements to practical tools that make weight-management easy. Fitzgerald's no-nonsense Diet Quality Score improves diet without counting calories. A new chapter on Racing Weight superfoods suggests diet foods high in the nutrients athletes need for training. Supplemental strength training workouts can accelerate changes in body composition. Daily food diaries from 18 pro athletes reveal how the elites maintain an athletic diet while managing appetite.  Athletes know that every extra pound wastes energy and hurts performance. With Racing Weight, cyclists, triathletes, and runners have a simple weight-management programme and practical tools to hit their fastest weight. Racing Weight: How to Get Lean for Peak Performance Matt Fitzgerald 229mm x 152mm, 296 pp., £13.95, 9781934030998 Paperback with tables and illustrations throughout. For trade enquiries, please contact: Richard Robinson Cordee Ltd 11 Jacknell Road Dodwells Bridge Industrial Estate Hinckley Leicestershire LE10 3BS United Kingdom Phone: [phone], [email protected] www.cordee.co.uk

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Our New Mobile App for www.SEEng.ie

We’ve had a few queries over the last week since we went live with our site regarding our mobile site. Were delighted to say that it is up and running and you can see it by logging onto our site http://www.seeng.ie from your mobile. Athletes can still login into their training logs in the normal way.

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Aaron Buggle Bay Criterium Series Debut

Sports & Exercise Engineering Elite Performance Coached rider Aaron Buggle will line out for the Rapha Condor JLT Team down under in Australia on New Years Day. Aaron will pin number 18 to his back in the Mitchelton Bay Cycling Classic. The full Rapha Condor JLT Team for the criterium series is listed below and the  Team is managed by John Herety. The team also has a number of younger riders with it in Australia who will be riding some of the supports events to the main events.

16 KristianHOUSERapha Condor JLT17 RichardHANDLEYRapha Condor JLT18 AaronBUGGLERapha Condor JLT19 LukeMELLORRapha Condor JLT20 FelixENGLISHRapha Condor JLT

This is the traditional start to the season in Australia and the three Criterium Race Series is nicknamed the Bay Crit Series. The three races in the Mitchelton Bay Cycling Classic Series are:

Ritchie Boulevard Criterium Tuesday, January 1 2013

Portarlington Criterium Wednesday, January 2 2013

Willliamstown Criterium Thursday, January 3 2013

The series is run on a points system with the winner receiving 12 points then 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 & 1 for each race. Aaron and his team mates will be up against some stiff competition with the likes of Greg Henderson, Luke Durbridge and Leigh Howard. These Criterium's are know to be some of the fastest in the world and with the Australian National Championships taking place in January one can be assured that the local riders will be on top form. We wish Aaron and his team every success in the first race of the year for them and also in the year ahead.

Aaron Buggle and the Rapha Condor JLT Team will be in Australia for the next 6-7 weeks. They will also compete in the Jayco Herald Sun Tour which starts the evening of the last criterium. Stages below:

Prologue - (ITT) Thursday, January 3 2013 Williamstown 5.36 km

Stage 1 Friday, January 4 2013 Sunbury - Bendigo 142 km

Stage 2 Saturday, January 5 2013 Mitchelton Winery - Healesville

Stage 3 Sunday, January 6 2013 Cape Schank - Arthurs Seat

Rapha Condor JLT (GBR)

31 Kristian HOUSE GBR 33

32 Richard HANDLEY GBR 22

33 Aaron BUGGLE IRL 22

34 Luke GRIVELL-MELLOR GBR 19

35 Felix ENGLISH IRL 20

36 Michael CUMING GBR 22

Full Teams Start List

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VO2 max Outputs for Professional Cyclists

VO2 is a good predictor of what a rider can deliver. Once motivation, pain threshold and other factors are added to the equation that value becomes obsolete. So don’t get to hung up on these numbers. Here’s a list of a few rider VO2 Max numbers.

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