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Title Sports nutrition : enhancing athletic performance / editor, Bill I. Campbell
Published Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, [2014]
©20
Table of Contents
 Forewordix
 Prefacexi
 About the Authorxiii
 Contributorsxv
ch. 1 Fat Metabolism / Bill Campbell1
ch. 2 Dietary Fat Intake Strategies to Enhance Performance / Bill Campbell21
ch. 3 Carbohydrate Metabolism / Bill Campbell45
ch. 4 Dietary Carbohydrate Strategies for Performance Enhancement / Bill Campbell75
ch. 5 Protein Metabolism / Bill Campbell125
ch. 6 Dietary Protein Strategies for Performance Enhancement / Bill Campbell155
ch. 7 Nutrient Timing: Carbohydrate-Protein Combinations / Bill Campbell181
ch. 8 Energy Balance / Bill Campbell199
ch. 9 Enhancing Body Composition: Gaining Muscle and Losing Fat / Elfego Galvan239
ch. 10 Hydration and Performance / Jennifer Bunn269
Appendix A Overview of Bioenergetics / Bill Campbell297
 Index309

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 321 pages) : illustrations
Contents Fat metabolism -- Dietary fat strategies for performance enhancement -- Carbohydrate metabolism -- Dietary carbohydrate strategies for performance enhancement -- Protein metabolism -- Dietary protein strategies for performance enhancement -- Nutrient timing : carbohydrate-protein combinations -- Energy balance -- Enhancing body composition : gaining muscle and losing fat -- Hydration
Summary With the constant flow of information related to sports nutrition coming from scholarly journals, it is difficult to sift through it all and determine what is relevant. Sports Nutrition: Enhancing Athletic Performance helps in this endeavor, with more than 1,000 references from top academic journals, offering critical knowledge concerning nutrient ingestion for enhancing exercise and sports performance. This book offers a clear focus on scientifically based sports nutrition advice to maximize performance. It also addresses exercise metabolism, which governs how nutrients exert physiologic effe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Athletes -- Nutrition.
Sports Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Athletic Performance -- physiology
Metabolism -- physiology
MEDICAL -- Physiology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Athletes -- Nutrition
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Campbell, Bill I., 1975- editor.
ISBN 9781466513594
1466513594
9781306086110
1306086116