Book Review- Racing Weight, How to Get Lean for Peak
Performance- 6-Step Plan for Endurance Athletes
By Matt FitzGerald
This book is worth the price for anyone that needs
nutrition. There are lots of great tools in this book including:
- A table to calculate your optimum body weight target
- How to score your diet quality
- A table of high quality carbohydrate foods
- A guide to daily carbohydrate intake based on workout volume
- Strength training for a leaner body.
The book had good advice on super foods to eat to boost diet
quality.
It was really nice to be able to figure out how much I
should weight for optimum performance.
The good news I was in the right range already, so this book was a good
tool to affirm I’ve been doing the right things. So Part III of the book told me how to fine
tune my diet.
If you are at more of the starting level part II will give
you 6 Steps to Peak Performance including:
- Managing Appetite
- Diet Quality
- Balancing Energy Sources
- Monitoring
- Nutrient Timing
- Training for Racing Weight.
This book is a great addition to any serious athlete.
Working out is not enough to achieve your best performance. This book will help
you push even farther by managing your nutrition. I found this a great resource
and well worth keeping on your reference shelf.
Nutrition has been the last frontier in my training
life. This book does not list any food
as bad. It take the approach to be the best athlete, you need to eat nutrient
dense foods. To get high quality performance from your body, you need to plan
what you are going to put into your body.
The author is an endurance sportswriter. He is a certified
sports nutritionist that has consulted for a number of companies. He has
conducted peer reviews for the Journal of International Society of Sports
Nutrition. He has coached runners and
triathletes, in addition to being an endurance athlete for 30 years.
His other titles include:
The New Rules of Marathon and Half Marathon
Nutrition
Brain Training for Runners
Triathlete Magazine’s Essential Week by Week Training Guide
Iron War
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| Chris Wodke at Aquathon National Championship El Reno, Ok 2014 |
Chris
Wodke
Founder
& Manager Team CMT
www.run4cmt.com
Chris is
a triathlete and long distance runner. She is a three time participant of the
Boston Marathon. In 2012 she finished 2nd
at Boston in
the Mobility Impaired Division. She was on the course in 2013 when the bombs
exploded.
She has
appeared three times at the Paratriathlon National Triathlon Sprint
Championship. She was the 2012 and 2014 National Champion Paratriathlon Open
Division Champion.
In 2014 she was the PC Open Champion at the Duathlon National Championship. She has qualified to represent TeamUSA
at the Aquathon ITU World Championship in Chicago
in 2015.
In 2014 she was the PC Open Champion at the Duathlon National Championship. She has qualified to represent Team
In 2014 she represented the U.S.
as a paratriathlete at the Pan-American Triathlon Championship in Dallas , Texas
She
travels around the country raising awareness of CMT.
She is
the author of the book, “Running for My Life” that details her experience as a
CMT affected athlete.
Team CMT
is a group of athletes and supporters working to raise awareness and to find a cure
for CMT. We have 159 members in 30 states. We also have members in Australia , Scotland ,
Canada , Vietnam , Turkey ,
Finland and Iran . If you
wish to join us visit our web site; www.run4cmt.com
or www.hnf-cure.org
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affects over 155,000 Americans (as many as MS). It is a disease of the
nerves that control the muscles. It is slowly progressive, causing loss of
normal function and or sensation in the lower legs/feet and arms/hands.
Symptoms
include; muscle wasting in the lower legs and feet leading to foot drop, poor
balance and gait problems Atrophy in the hands causes difficulty with manual
dexterity.
Structural
foot deformities such as high arches and hammer toes are common.
Poor
tolerance for cool or cold temperatures and many people have chronically cold
hands and feet.
Additional
symptoms may include fatigue, sleep apnea, breathing difficulties and hearing
loss.
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