Customer Reviews
Essential for Training! - By: Alan Morton Daly, 09 Jul 2008 
A "must-have" reference book on nutrition for all athletes,body-builders,fitness buffs,runners,cyclists....anyone who trains.
Well laid out,simple to understand,and allows you to pick-up important little nuggets of information & adapt them into your training regime.
Will be well-thumbedin ANY gym by trainers & athletes looking for that LEGAL extra edge.
As important as your training plan - By: John Boy, 16 Mar 2008 Anita Bean is to training & nutrition as Jamie Oliver is to cooking. Easy to understand & the methodology can be easily applied. However well you train, you won't achieve the optimum performance unless you have taken the right food & drink before & after a session, & taken it at the time that it will have the best effect on your body. Anita Bean not only provides that advice, but also covers weight gain & loss, young athletes, women, & 'veggies'. If you're half serious about your sport & fitness, you need this book. Whilst all the reviewers so far have given this book 5 stars, the best endorsement for me was when I recently attended an outpatients department & the young clinician who saw me reading the book said; "that's great, I read it at Uni".
Its a good book - By: Mark H. Maliniak, 04 Jun 2007 I have been training for about 4 months now, & last ,month I bought a book from Amazon called Muscle Mechanics which was great.
But there was a piece of the jigsaw missing - nutrition.
I ordered this book based on reviews etc. And I am extremely happy to say it is all I will ever need. I know little about nitriotion, but this book has given me a much better understanding. I have already made adjustments to my diet & based on the advicein the book will start taking additional supplements. If your Vegan, young, old - this book is for you.
An actual COMPLETE GUIDE! Fascinating Reading - By: , 15 Dec 2004 Admittedly I have only had the initial flick through & a read of the parts I found most interesting at first but I will read through the entire book when I get it back from my fitness enthuisiast work colleague who has borrowed it & is finding it as fascinating as I did. He does cite it as more of an academic book than a leisurely read but is still enjoying it anyway.
I bought this with a hope of finding out more about how the body works during excercise & the part that food playsin that function & it hasnt disappointed me. Ive learnt exactly what I wanted to & more. Theres parts for working out your daily calorie intake & all those sorts of things.
This isnt a basic 'basic' book but I wouldnt say you need a science degree to understand it at all - I think it does all the explaining it needs to. Depending on your reading style & intake, & given the content you may want to read this a couple of times. I found I picked up the parts that interested me most first time round but to get a complete clear understanding of some parts that I might need another read through - but thats just me - we're all different hey!
Overall very good if your a fitness enthusiast & want to get into it further & have an actual understanding of how we work when excercising & the role food playsin it.
Essential Reading - By: ToddyGee, 19 Oct 2004 This is one of those few perspective-changing books that you come across. I have been interestedin weight-training, cardio activities & sports nutrition for a number of years,in the hope that I will improve my fitness levels & get leaner/more muscular. Up until reading this book I depended solely on magazines such as Muscle & Fitness for information & guidelines, but finding progress to be quite slow. This book changed everything. From the outset it is easily accessible but very informative, providing effective & revealing advice. As a result I am eating more healthily & effectively as regards to my training needs, & have found my progress to have quickened considerably. Extremely useful is the section on how much of carbs, protein & fat you need to eat for different goals (weight gain, fat loss, or sports-specific needs). It is ESSENTIAL reading to anyone who cares about their health, but especially for those who take their training and/or body composition seriously. Trust me, you'll be glad you bought this book!
