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Description
Over 100 delicious meal ideas from bestselling nutritionist Anita Bean, packed with healthy foods and nutrition advice to fuel your running.
This is the ultimate sports nutrition guide and cookbook for runners, packed with easy, delicious recipes and practical eating advice on how to prepare for 5k, 10k, half-marathons, marathons, and ultra-races. Find out what to eat before, during, and after your running sessions to get the most out of your training, with additional guidance on hydration, supplements, and how to optimize recovery from injury.
Enjoy more than 100 easy-to-prepare recipes--including breakfasts, salads, main meals, vegetarian main meals, desserts, and snacks--all nutritionally balanced to help you go the extra mile and achieve your running goals.
Recipes include:
- Scrambled eggs with sweet potato hash browns and spinach
- Thai chicken curry with noodles
- Cinnamon cranberry granola bars
- Fish tacos with avocado and mango salsa
- Blackberry and hazelnut crumble
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part one: How to eat like a runner
Calculate your Calorie Needs
Carbohydrate
Protein
Fat
Eat a Rainbow of Colours
Hydration
Running and Weight Loss
Recovery from Injury
Sports Nutrition Products and Supplements
Part two: Fuelling your run
Before a Run
During a Run
After a Run
Fuelling for Different Distances
Fuelling for a 5K
Fuelling for a 10K
Fuelling for a half-marathon
Fuelling for a marathon
Fuelling for an ultra race
Part 3: Recipes
Breakfasts
Salads
Soups
Main Meals
Vegetarian Main Meals
Desserts
Snacks
Smoothies and Recovery Drinks
Recipe Index
References
Index
Product details
Published | Mar 06 2018 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 224 |
ISBN | 9781472946775 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Sport |
Illustrations | Full colour delicious food photography. |
Dimensions | 9 x 8 inches |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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This book delivers brilliant, easy-to-digest advice. Anita's tips and recipes are spot on – whether you're running one mile or 26.2!
London Marathon Events
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Anita's latest running book is set to motivate and help runners of all levels improve their nutritional knowledge as well as their cooking skills… Anita guides you through optimal recovery, hydration, nutritional health through injury, as well as information on supplements and more.
Outdoor Fitness
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Bean is a first-class nutritionist and the recipes are peppered with nutritional and hydration tips, supplements and the kind of foods you need to eat to enhance recovery or speed up return following injury
Athletics Weekly
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An essential purchase…nutritionally bulletproof advice. Easy, delicious and not just for runners.
Coach magazine
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excellent
Nick Harris-Fry, Coach magazine
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