Fuel for Young Athletes: Essential Foods and Fluids for Future Champions

Fuel for Young Athletes: Essential Foods and Fluids for Future Champions by Ann Litt. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780736046527.

Young athletes need more than practice to succeed in sport. They need a proper diet that will leave them energized and able to perform their best throughout the entire game. Whether youre a coach, parent, or nutritionist, you can help young athletes fuel for energy, development, and performance through the sound nutritional guidelines presented in Fuel for Young Athletes. Author Ann Litt, a frequently consulted nutritionist, columnist, and mother of two teenage athletes, presents the most essential guidelines for athletes in middle school through high school. Litt provides a complete resource filled with practical advice that coaches, parents, and even athletes themselves can apply directly to the training table. Among the topics she covers are -food and fluid guidelines for young athletes, -food plans tailored to the specific energy needs of 11 sports, -recipe and snack ideas that appeal to teens and give them extra power on the playing fields and courts, -fuel for muscle development and bone growth, -eating for endurance training, -tactics for safely gaining and losing weight, -dietary supplements, -high-performance meal planning, -eating well in fast-food restaurants, and -strategies for disordered eating. Fuel for Young Athletes helps growing athletes meet their nutritional needs and guides them toward both optimal health and athletic success.