The Need to Know Guide to Nutrition for Exercise: How Your Food and Drink Can Help You to Achieve Your Workout Goals (Central YMCA Health and Nutrition Guides)

Shaw BSc MSc, Tim

ISBN 10: 1482656655 / ISBN 13: 9781482656657

Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

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• Titolo: The Need to Know Guide to Nutrition for Exercise: How Your Food and Drink Can Help You to Achieve Your Workout Goals (Central YMCA Health and Nutrition Guides)
• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1482656655
• ISBN 13: 9781482656657
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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A must read for exercise lovers, this much anticipated sequel to The Need to Know Guide to Nutrition and Healthy Eating, takes a closer look at the role food and drink can play in optimising your athletic performance. Published by Central YMCA, the UK’s leading activity for health charity and written by Tim Shaw, an experienced health and fitness instructor and nutrition specialist, this essential guide will help you to: · Keep track of what you eat · Calculate your energy requirements · Understand the role that different foods play in performance · Establish a balance of foods that works for you · Monitor your hydration levels · Choose what supplements are worth investing in · Establish the perfect weight training diet · Establish the perfect diet for CV exercise Simple to use and packed with trustworthy and proven techniques to measure, monitor and adapt every aspect of your daily diet, this is an enlightening book for anyone who has ever wondered about the effect that food and drink can have on their energy levels and performance when exercising. Central YMCA Guides: Trustworthy advice from those in the know

Informazioni sull?autore

An experienced instructor in the health and fitness industry, Tim specialises in teaching the principles of exercise, nutrition and healthy eating to gym instructors and personal trainers. He is also involved in teaching fitness for disabled clients and training for older adults. Tim has worked for London Central YMCA as a tutor in health and fitness for over 20 years. Prior to that he studied engineering, gaining a BSc in technology and an MSc in robotics. He can also boast an impressive CV of health and fitness qualifications in personal training, gym instructing, fitness training, exercise to music, nutrition and weight management, as well as specialist areas such as exercise for older adults and disabled people. Tim's interest in nutrition began in the 1980s. Over the past three decades, he has tried most diets and food fads for himself and is now, consequently, a staunch advocate of simple, straightforward nutrition advice. In his own words Tim believes; "The best nutrition is actually achieved by following simple guidelines and eating the right balance of healthy foods."