In this title, sports nutritionist Matt Fitzgerald offers the first comprehensive and science-based approach to weight management for runners, cyclists, triathletes, swimmers, rowers, and cross-country skiers. For endurance athletes, the power-to-weight ratio is critical. After all, an extra 10 pounds demands more than 6 per cent more energy at a given pace. "Racing Weight" explores weight management as a means to better performance. Losing those last few pounds can seem impossible, but "Racing Weight" will help you hit your fastest numbers. Endurance sports coach and certified sports nutritionist Matt Fitzgerald offers a safe and healthy 5-step plan to help you get leaner and lighter for competition. By improving the quality of your diet, managing your appetite, and timing important nutrients, you can perform better - and look and feel great. After finding your ideal off-season and racing weights, you will learn how to improve diet quality; balance your intake of carbohydrate, protein, and fat; time meals and snacks; manage appetite; and train for lean body composition. Fitzgerald grounds his approach with practical examples of good nutrition, featuring personal food journals from elite athletes competing in six different sports and a selection of 21 recipes from professional triathlete and dietician Pip Taylor. "Racing Weight" is an essential guide to help endurance athletes make the subtle but important changes they need to start their next race at their optimal weight.
 Trade In this Item for up to £3.75
Trade in Racing Weight for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £3.75, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Learn more
|
|
There is a newer edition of this item:
|
Book Description
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, and more.
Product Description
Review
"I highly recommend reading "Racing Weight" even if you don't need to lose any excess poundage. You'll come away with a better understanding of your physiology and also of food." -- Joe Friel, founder of TrainingBible Coaching and author of The Triathlete's Training Bible and The Cyclist's Training Bible
"Even if you are already a lean machine, you'll likely still learn something from "Racing Weight." From how to determine your optimum weight, to improving your diet and training around it, to controlling your appetite and making your own fuel--it's all in this book." -- BikeRadar
"The mysteries of weight and its relationship to performance are unlocked in Matt Fitzgerald's "Racing Weight." If you've got a basic handle on both training and nutrition, this book offers the means to improve both your diet and athletic performance." -- DailyPeloton.com
"Fitzgerald is going to go down as one of the most competent and prolific authors of books for serious runners covering just about every legitimate aspect of the all-important runner's lifestyle." -- Letsrun.com
"It's not too hard to convince cyclists that they can improve their performance if they drop their weight to an optimum level. However, that's generally as useful as a physician telling a client they need to lose weight and then sending them out the office door. There are endless diet or nutrition books out there, but very few specifically catering to the endurance athlete. Into this void comes "Racing Weight" by Matt Fitzgerald." -- Pezcyclingnews.com
""Racing Weight" answers the difficult questions athletes often have about dieting, including how to handle the off-season. The book gives readers a scientifically backed system to discover your optimum race weight, as well as five steps to achieve it." -- "Triathlete" magazine
"Reaching an ideal weight for endurance sports is important, but doing it the right way is even more important. Matt Fitzgerald provides scientific and sound a
About the Author
Matt Fitzgerald is the author of numerous books on running, triathlon, nutrition, and weight loss. He has been a contributor to Men's Fitness, Men's Health, Outside, Runner's World, Bicycling, Running Times, Women's Running, and other sports and fitness publications. Fitzgerald is a featured coach on Training Peaks and Active.com. He is a certified sports nutritionist (CISSN) licensed by the International Society of Sports Nutrition. He lives and trains in San Diego, California.
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
58 of 58 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was excellent and its helped me get down to my 'racing weight'. I'm a Triathlete, I have done an Ironman before and am training for another one. I fit my training around work. I know my nutrition outside of training hasn't been good, but this book highlighted just how bad it was. I used to feast in the evenings on the wrong sorts of foods, having trainied hard all day snacking on high carb bits of food. This taught my body to fast during the day and absorb everything at night.
The best thing about this book is its written by an athlete so the language is really easy to identify with. The examples are very practical and come from the broad spectrum of society.
The book simply lays out good principles that if you follow you'll get more lean, and faster! Its backed up by scientific research and proven to work by athletes, which makes it easier to believe and gave me more confidence to follow. It teaches you how to train long and hard, while putting enough fuel on board for the next days training while avoiding putting on excess fat.
I started training / eating to this book after injury. I started at 90kg and dropped to 80kg over six months. The book helped me float down to 75kg, and yesterday I was 74.5kg...the lightest I'd been since my last Ironman five years ago! As its pointed out in the book loosing weight isn't all imprtant, it is body compostion and I am also alot leaner and am able to bike and faster alot quicker. The best thing is, I now eat lots of tasty nutritious food and feel alot better than I used to.
I really reccomend this for anyone who does physical training (whether its five hours a week or thirty) and wants to become more lean. There are also benefits for someone who doesn't train alot, or for athletes during periods of inactivity (off season, injury etc).
The best thing about this book is its written by an athlete so the language is really easy to identify with. The examples are very practical and come from the broad spectrum of society.
The book simply lays out good principles that if you follow you'll get more lean, and faster! Its backed up by scientific research and proven to work by athletes, which makes it easier to believe and gave me more confidence to follow. It teaches you how to train long and hard, while putting enough fuel on board for the next days training while avoiding putting on excess fat.
I started training / eating to this book after injury. I started at 90kg and dropped to 80kg over six months. The book helped me float down to 75kg, and yesterday I was 74.5kg...the lightest I'd been since my last Ironman five years ago! As its pointed out in the book loosing weight isn't all imprtant, it is body compostion and I am also alot leaner and am able to bike and faster alot quicker. The best thing is, I now eat lots of tasty nutritious food and feel alot better than I used to.
I really reccomend this for anyone who does physical training (whether its five hours a week or thirty) and wants to become more lean. There are also benefits for someone who doesn't train alot, or for athletes during periods of inactivity (off season, injury etc).
42 of 44 people found the following review helpful
By J. Watson
Format:Paperback
For the serious, semi serious, not so serious and generally interested sports-person, this is the book you've all been waiting for.
Easy to read, packed with amazing research and information and logically laid out - anyone who is involved in any type of endurance sport, like cycling, running, triathlon or even walking will find most of this book incredibly useful.
Information and useable advice covers areas such as nutrition and diet, recovery, weight-loss, physiology and other areas that are of great importance to all sports people. I even found it useful as simply a health book.
Read from cover to cover, it will stay at the front of my shelf for when I need to check something out or simply need to read for motivation.
Everest in April and the Maratona Dles Dolomites in July are my main focuses for the year ahead (2010) and both are now more readily achievable using information and advice I have gleaned from this book.
Have never given 6* to anything before; but I have now!
Easy to read, packed with amazing research and information and logically laid out - anyone who is involved in any type of endurance sport, like cycling, running, triathlon or even walking will find most of this book incredibly useful.
Information and useable advice covers areas such as nutrition and diet, recovery, weight-loss, physiology and other areas that are of great importance to all sports people. I even found it useful as simply a health book.
Read from cover to cover, it will stay at the front of my shelf for when I need to check something out or simply need to read for motivation.
Everest in April and the Maratona Dles Dolomites in July are my main focuses for the year ahead (2010) and both are now more readily achievable using information and advice I have gleaned from this book.
Have never given 6* to anything before; but I have now!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I recommmed this book to every pro endurance athlete. Full of common sense and backed by lots of research.
I have been a procycling for 12 years and still learn a lot through this book. Always watched my nutrition but still I found it very useful.
I have been a procycling for 12 years and still learn a lot through this book. Always watched my nutrition but still I found it very useful.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
›
Go to Amazon.com to see all 83 reviews
4.1 out of 5 stars
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book.
Easy to understand for the amateur and elite sportsman alike with plenty of facts and science to back up the training plans. Read more
Published 3 months ago by MICHAEL MCLAREN
2.0 out of 5 stars
Mixed-bag
Tries to cover with a variety of information and conflicting arguments.
OK for those who specialise in nutrition, but that is a narrow audience. Read more
OK for those who specialise in nutrition, but that is a narrow audience. Read more
Published 4 months ago by michael chaldecott
4.0 out of 5 stars
Well structured book with practical advice
Interesting read with good take on old principles plus new ones too. Time now to put into practice!! (At which point I may come back and give it a five! Read more
Published 4 months ago by Gina McGeever
4.0 out of 5 stars
Racing weight
My husband says he is still reading this book, but has some useful information which he is going to put into practice in the New Year.
Published 4 months ago by Spikey
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great
I enjoyed reading this book from start to finish. I would recommend it to anyone looking to get leaner or for people looking to improve their diet.
Published 5 months ago by G.Stuart
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great advice for endurance racers
I mountain bike and climb. I was looking for advice on getting leaner for both sports and this book has some great basic advice and weight management for endurance sports. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Joe Handley
2.0 out of 5 stars
Too general....
Very, very dissappointed justabout sums it up. Page after page of anecdotes about tri-athletes and rowers and annoyingly teasing about all the goodies and tips to come in 'Chapter... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Steve, Somerset
4.0 out of 5 stars
Don't wait, race out and buy it. (or order on amazon)
This is a fantastic book.
The focus is on helping athletes attain a more competitive weight for their chosen activity be it running, skiing, cycling, rowing, or the... Read more
The focus is on helping athletes attain a more competitive weight for their chosen activity be it running, skiing, cycling, rowing, or the... Read more
Published 10 months ago by December Hare
2.0 out of 5 stars
Stuff you Already Knew
I guess I don't know what I was expecting - a silver bullet of some sort, maybe :) It has plenty of specific information across a number of endurance sports, but really boils down... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Marcp
5.0 out of 5 stars
Does what it says on the tin.
This is most definately not a diet book. It's a book about loosing that final bit of weight, whilst maintaining lean body mass, that can help substantial improvements in endurance... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mcdowall
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
