Fuel Your Body: How to Cook and Eat for Peak Performance: 77 Simple, Nutritious, Whole-Food Recipes for Every Athlete

Take your athletic performance to the next level with these nutritious, simple, and convenient recipes.

This new cookbook is an indispensable resource for athletes of all ages and experience levels. Fuel Your Body: How to Cook and Eat for Peak Performance: 77 Simple, Nutritious, Whole-Food Recipes for Every Athlete is filled with nourishing recipes that are not only quick to prepare and simple enough for beginner home cooks, but don't sacrifice flavor in the process. Whether you are an athlete at the elite level or a weekend warrior, the foods you put in your body have a direct impact on your overall health, performance, and recovery. This book compiles useful guidelines to sports nutrition and expertise from Angie Asche, a certified specialist in sports dietetics and founder of Eleat Nutrition, and can be used to help everyone reach their fitness goals through a whole-food and anti-inflammatory approach.

Whether you are a recreational half marathoner, the parent of a teenage athlete, or competing at a high level in your chosen sport, Fuel Your Body has recipes and meal plans to help you reach your full potential. This is the ultimate resource for anyone looking to educate themselves on both the nutrition necessary for optimal athletic performance and the simple recipes you can use to get there.

ISBN-13: 9781572842960

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Agate

Publication Date: 05-11-2021

Pages: 0

Product Dimensions: 7.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

Angie Asche, MS, RD, CSSD, is a sports dietitian and nationally recognized food and nutrition expert. She owns and operates Eleat Sports Nutrition, which provides nutrition coaching and counseling to athletes nationwide, and is based in Lincoln, Nebraska. Since founding her company in 2014, she has worked with hundreds of high school, college, and professional athletes nationwide in the MLB, NHL and NFL. Angie has also worked as the nutrition consultant to the Universityof Nebraska volleyball team. She is a board certified specialist in sports dietetics (CSSD) and a certified exercise physiologist (ACSM-EP). Her expertise and recipes have been featured in national publications including Men’s Journal, Muscle & Fitness, Food Network, Shape Magazine, Runner’s World, and NBC News.

Table of Contents

• [Front matter]
• Why Athletes Need This Book [introduction]
• Part One: Performance Nutrition Basics
• Chapter One: Performance Nutrition
• Chapter Two: Foods That Boost Performance
• Part Two: Meal Planning and Kitchen Basics
Chapter Three: Meal Prep and Planning
• Chapter Four: Cooking Basics
• Part Three: Recipes
• Chapter Five: The Perfect Smoothie
• Chapter Six: Breakfast
• Chapter Seven: Salads, Soups, Bowls, and Handhelds
• Chapter Eight: Mains
• Chapter Nine: Performance Snacks and Sweet Treats
• Recipe Nutritional Information
• Acknowledgments
• Simple Measurement Conversion Guide
• Index

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