Sport Nutrition for Coaches

I purchased this book to learn the proper caloric intake and ratio of types of foods (carbs, fats, protein) for my child who is a competitive athlete in two sports. While the text is written for coaches of college athletes, the diet calculations can be used for anyone because they all use body weight and height as inputs.With this text, I was able to quickly answer questions such as: How many calories/day should my child eat? What is the best way to gain weight? At what rate can we expect weight gain? Are supplements useful and appropriate? How to eat to prep for competition? When and what should be eaten? How much? What should he eat during competition? What should he eat to recover from practice and competition? And so on.I want to thank the author for putting her expertise into a book to share with others. Since incorporating her recommendations, we are successfully gaining weight in spite of heavy daily practices, which is helping us to have better results on the court and field. Also we have solved the problem of energy crashes during competition, which has led to better results. I agree with the author when she writes that one spends too much time practicing one's sport to have lack of nutritional preparation sabotage one's competition result. This book has improved our fitness for competition. Thank you.

I needed this book for my kinesiology class. I have to say i did learn a lot from this book and especially how and what to be consuming for the body. If you will be coach or someone that people constantly ask for advice about nutrition i recommend you read this book for more insight and information.

I'll keep it short and sweet. This book was fantastic to teaching the nutrition for athletes and making it practical to use for any sports coach/fitness trainer. I really enjoyed the evidenced based information and ideas for handouts.Leslie really seems to know her stuff and I think her nutrition expertise as a Registered Dietitian really shows in this informative, practical nutrition book.

Great info!

Great book for any coach or serious athlete. As a coach this is one of my best resource books.

Fantastic book for my Master's class in Kinesiology. I will keep and use it as a reference as a Coach and teacher.

The book is very useful and I enjoy having it as a resource. However, it came with more marks than I expected, and that is part of buying from manydvds. Overall, good book.

I heard on Dr. Radio that this book was good for parents as well as coaches. I have to "dig" to find the relevant helpful pieces of information for the parent.

Good informative book at best price.