The Practical Guide to Sports Nutrition (book)

It has never been easier to eat healthily and lose weight without counting calories, eating diet food or feeling hungry, and without feeling as though you’re missing out on anything. This book explains the link between looking healthy and achieving lasting weight loss, and how you can easily achieve both. The formula is simple: avoid industrially processed foods and products such as grains, pulses and pasteurised milk. What’s more, doing so increases your chances of alleviating or even completely eliminating the symptoms of common illnesses! This is the essence of the paleo diet, often referred to as the Stone Age diet. The Complete Guide to the Paleo Diet contains plenty of delicious recipes and answers to all your questions about the paleo diet, and is the definitive guide for anyone who has discovered this way of eating for themselves.  About the author : Diane Sanfilippo studied at Syracuse University; she is a scientist and a registered dietitian. She writes the popular health blog Balance Bites, runs a practice as a dietitian, gives seminars on the Paleo diet across the USA, and hosts a highly successful weekly podcast, *The Balanced Bites Podcast*, which is available free of charge on iTunes.

Functional training is the training concept of the future. Already an integral part of athlete training in the USA, this method – which has its roots in physiotherapy – is also becoming increasingly popular here. Indeed, the German national football team used functional training to prepare for the World Cup as early as 2006. It involves training entire muscle groups through free movements and simple equipment such as exercise mats or medicine balls – rather than just individual muscles, as is the case with weight machines in the gym. Each exercise simultaneously improves the stability and mobility of the core – our centre of strength, from which all movements originate – as well as the athlete’s coordination, reaction time and balance. Typical movement patterns for the respective sports are perfected and weaknesses specifically addressed, thereby also helping to prevent injuries. This comprehensive standard reference work, aimed at athletes, coaches and therapists, combines a well-founded theoretical section with numerous illustrated exercises that can be adapted to all sports. About the author: Michael Boyle is one of the world’s leading experts in performance optimisation in sport and functional training. He works with professional athletes across a wide range of sports, providing training and rehabilitation support, and is a sought-after consultant and speaker. His two books, *Functional Training* and *Advances in Functional Training*, are regarded as standard works in the field.Read an extract

Core Performance – Endurance (book) – THE CORE training programme continues! Following the sensational success of the books “CORE Performance” and “The CORE Programme”, the German national football team’s fitness coach has now released another title. The Core Endurance Programme helps endurance athletes to make their training more efficient and prevent injuries. For anyone who feels they can no longer improve their performance in running, swimming or cycling due to a lack of time, a lack of motivation or their age, this book is just the thing. Mark Verstegen shows how to break through a plateau and achieve new performance goals. He presents a simple, holistic training programme that enables better results to be achieved despite shorter training sessions. Among other things, he emphasises a specific warm-up routine and attaches great importance to the correct execution of movements when running, swimming and cycling. The programme is complemented by a nutrition plan developed specifically for endurance athletes. This is the English edition of the book, which comprises a total of 238 pages.