I’m looking for book recommendations on proper nutrition. I’m training for a Half Ironman and need to drop about 10lbs. I seem to either not eat enough, which leaves me tired during workouts, or eat like crazy after a workout.
Thanks!
Check out books/articles by Nancy Clark.
Chris Carmichael’s book is worth reading as is another sports nutirtion book the name of which escapes me.
Anything by Dr. Colgan or the Colgan Institute. I haven’t read the books myself, but my cycling coach lives by them and has taught me a lot from them.
I bought a Book by Monique Ryan - Sports Nutrition for Endurance Athletes… It cover the basics: healthy diet, training nutrition and sports-specific nutrition. Look at it, it’s a very good book…
My advise, go to a nutritionist… Those are the best bucks you are going to spend. Your problem is not what you are eating, but the way you eat. Having several meals a day and never being to full or starving is the way to go. The nutritionist can give you the right portions to archive your goal.
Books are ok, but everyone has specific needs…
reading books on nutrition just make me hungry! that said, i think a great holistic guide to healthy eating for performance athletes can be found over in gordo world. go to g-tips/nutrition. I like his KISS philosophy. Fruit, veggies, lean PRO & H20. Gordo is pretty restrictive with complex carbs in his own regimen, and if you are looking to lose weight then reducing breads/pasta/rice etc. for a bit will do it. But realize that this is his personal diet based on his needs and how he responds to complex carbs / starch. Many people, myself included, need the pasta and rice to stay healthy!
Focus on maintaining QUALITY, not decreasing quantity, especially when training hard. That and meal timing (load up after workouts) and frequency (4-5 small meals /day) is pretty much all there is to it.
I second this one - it’s easy to understand.
Ellen Coleman’s Eating For Endurance.
i second the one by monique ryan. also, there’s a book by jeukendrup and gleeson called sports nutrition that’s pretty awesome that was used for my sports nutrition class last semester (it’s written a little like a textbook tho). however, steer clear of colgan. while often right, the advice he gives is not at all useful in a real world situation. also, he goes way overboard w/ his advice on vitamins and supplements, etc. and while i haven’t read anything by him, edmund burke is a legend from the early days of sports nutrition, so maybe check out something by him.