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# Cutting-edge performance strategies 424 pages of expert insights Trusted by Olympians & elite athletes Advanced Sports Nutrition

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## Summary

> 🥇 Fuel like a champion, perform like a legend.

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## Key Features

- • **Ergogenic Edge:** Latest research on supplements like quercetin and caffeine for peak performance.
- • **Dynamic Energy Balance:** Learn when—not just how much—to eat for maximum results.
- • **Science-Backed Fueling:** Master nutrient timing to keep energy optimized all day.
- • **Sport-Specific Nutrition:** Tailored guidelines for power, strength, and endurance athletes.
- • **Comprehensive & Authoritative:** Written by Dr. Dan Benardot, a world-renowned sports nutritionist.

## Overview

Advanced Sports Nutrition, authored by Dr. Dan Benardot, is a 424-page definitive guide offering the latest, research-driven strategies for athletes to optimize fueling, nutrient timing, and supplementation. This updated bestseller delivers sport-specific nutrition plans and cutting-edge insights trusted by Olympians to enhance power, strength, and endurance while maintaining peak health.

## Description

Advanced Sports Nutrition helped thousands of athletes apply the most effective and cutting-edge strategies for optimal fueling and performance. Now this best-seller returns, updated with the latest research, topics, and innovations in sports nutrition. Far beyond the typical food pyramid formula, Advanced Sports Nutrition offers serious strategies for serious athletes. This comprehensive guide includes the latest nutrition concepts for athletes in any sport. World-renowned sports nutritionist Dr. Dan Benardot breaks down the chemistry of improved performance into winning principles that ensure athletes’ key energy systems are properly stocked at all times: -Meal, energy, and nutrient timing guidelines to maintain that crucial energy balance throughout the day -Optimal ratios and quantities of nutrients, vitamins, and minerals for any sport -Guidelines on identifying and maintaining optimal body composition for maximal power, strength, and athletic performance -The latest research on ergogenic aids, such as quercitin and caffeine -Strategies for avoiding gastrointestinal distress during activity and reducing exercise-induced inflammation -The effects of travel, high altitude, and age on nutrition needs and performance -Strategies for balancing fluid and electrolytes to avoid dehydration and hyperhydration -Sport-specific guidelines for increased power, strength, and endurance The best conditioning programs and technical instruction are beneficial only if your body is properly fueled and ready to operate at peak efficiency. With Advanced Sports Nutrition, Second Edition , you can be assured that when you are ready to push the limits of training and competition, your body is, too.

Review: The gold standard for sports nutrition - This book is widely considered THE text on sports nutrition, and it's even better now that it is updated for 2012. Sports nutrition is a quickly advancing field and having the most recent information is important. Benardot covers very important information for athletes, including: * Ratios of carbohydrates to proteins to fats, and how the body utilizes these nutrients. Unfortunately this section is a bit dated and reflects the old 60's thinking that advocates low-fat, high carb diets. I would have preferred more up-to-date information based on the studies conducted since then that show a high-fat, low-carb diet is healthier. There is a lot of research now on the way these diets can both help and hurt anaerobic and aerobic performance, and this information is sadly lacking. This is one of the few "cons" of the book. * The effects of vitamins and minerals on performance, and how these micronutrients function. * The best concentration of carbohydrates for sports drinks, gels, etc. * Which supplements work and do not. * How best to spread out nutrient intake across the day and before, during, and after activity. * Specific recommendations for athletes of particular types of sports, such as short, high intensity sports or endurance sports. All of the material is very well cited and most importantly, you gain not only an understanding of "what" but also "why". The author provides a tremendous amount of information on anatomy and biology to explain exactly how metabolic processes use the nutrients you consume so you can apply that information to your unique situation. This is a must-have book for any athlete.
Review: The standard has been set, and it is HIGH! - For those who don't know, Dr. Benardot isn't just some guy with a fancy degree. He has worked with Olympians for, well, decades. His approach to nutrition is not just based on the best science has to offer, it is also based on what delivers a real-world world class performance while maintaining and even improving athlete health. Fortunately for the rest of us, the approach taken in this book helps us all learn exactly how our bodies work so that we, too, can get exactly what we want from our diets! There is as much detail as anyone could want, while still containing a condensed "here's what to do" segment for every goal. You'll get the low-down on just about every supplement and "ergogenic aid" there is, as well as a specific breakdown of all major sports so that you know exactly what you need based on what you do. You'll also get exposed to important ideas that you won't see anywhere else, such as dynamic energy balance. Forget about getting your calories for the day, and learn why getting the calories you need WHEN YOU NEED THEM is going to make you stronger, leaner, and better at what you do every day. Don't go buy a book written by a fancy blog owner, do yourself a favor and learn from the cream of the crop: Buy this book today. You'll thank Dr. Benardot (and maybe me) tomorrow.

## Features

- Size: 7x10
- Author: Benardot, Dan
- Pages: 424

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #939,568 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,416 in Sports Training (Books) #5,117 in Nutrition (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 166 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The gold standard for sports nutrition
*by J***E on June 24, 2012*

This book is widely considered THE text on sports nutrition, and it's even better now that it is updated for 2012. Sports nutrition is a quickly advancing field and having the most recent information is important. Benardot covers very important information for athletes, including: * Ratios of carbohydrates to proteins to fats, and how the body utilizes these nutrients. Unfortunately this section is a bit dated and reflects the old 60's thinking that advocates low-fat, high carb diets. I would have preferred more up-to-date information based on the studies conducted since then that show a high-fat, low-carb diet is healthier. There is a lot of research now on the way these diets can both help and hurt anaerobic and aerobic performance, and this information is sadly lacking. This is one of the few "cons" of the book. * The effects of vitamins and minerals on performance, and how these micronutrients function. * The best concentration of carbohydrates for sports drinks, gels, etc. * Which supplements work and do not. * How best to spread out nutrient intake across the day and before, during, and after activity. * Specific recommendations for athletes of particular types of sports, such as short, high intensity sports or endurance sports. All of the material is very well cited and most importantly, you gain not only an understanding of "what" but also "why". The author provides a tremendous amount of information on anatomy and biology to explain exactly how metabolic processes use the nutrients you consume so you can apply that information to your unique situation. This is a must-have book for any athlete.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The standard has been set, and it is HIGH!
*by J***N on March 3, 2014*

For those who don't know, Dr. Benardot isn't just some guy with a fancy degree. He has worked with Olympians for, well, decades. His approach to nutrition is not just based on the best science has to offer, it is also based on what delivers a real-world world class performance while maintaining and even improving athlete health. Fortunately for the rest of us, the approach taken in this book helps us all learn exactly how our bodies work so that we, too, can get exactly what we want from our diets! There is as much detail as anyone could want, while still containing a condensed "here's what to do" segment for every goal. You'll get the low-down on just about every supplement and "ergogenic aid" there is, as well as a specific breakdown of all major sports so that you know exactly what you need based on what you do. You'll also get exposed to important ideas that you won't see anywhere else, such as dynamic energy balance. Forget about getting your calories for the day, and learn why getting the calories you need WHEN YOU NEED THEM is going to make you stronger, leaner, and better at what you do every day. Don't go buy a book written by a fancy blog owner, do yourself a favor and learn from the cream of the crop: Buy this book today. You'll thank Dr. Benardot (and maybe me) tomorrow.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book explains how food works.
*by H***E on June 2, 2016*

Great book detailing bodies energy pathways. The first 2/3 of the book was well laid out explanation of how the body makes energy. Easy reading and lovely model that gels well with my own experiences. The last 1/3 of the book is a bunch of sample diets. I haven't dug into them. My previous sports nutrition book was published in 1986. No contradictions but the new book is much better written and goes into much more detail. I think if you read and understand the first 2/3 of this book you can design a good diet for yourself, and learn to feed yourself for endurance racing.

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