Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook

This is a great book with loads of information...you read it and feel like you should know all this already but for some reason, you don't. This book is good if you are looking to lose weight, gain muscle, or just eat properly. You will greatly benefit if you are exercising and not seeing the results that you are expecting. As an extra, you get some recipes in the back of the book. I have this book with me in my car all the time so I can look up something really quick if I need to. Before this book, I read alot of books that basically catered to some supplement or some diet fad...this is the real deal. This book will not tell you not to eat sweets, it will tell you to have alot less of them...and increase your veggies and fruits and whole grains...stuff you should already know but stated in a concise, efficient way. If you are working out and feel you need the right dietary information, get this book. This book has got me looking into becoming a registered dietician, you know, those people you pay alot of money to tell you the same thing as this book!

Excellent reference book, I use it a lot in my dietitian practice. Easy to read, would definitely suggest it to any of my clients.

I had always been plagued with either eating too little or too much in an attempt to keep up my energy and keep my weight within a strict competition category in martial arts. However, this book really helped me. I got so sick of reading on fitness forums about having no carbs and lots of protein (which I can't do for my endurance activities) or paleo or zone, etc. etc. Or you buy the book with so many complicated and expensive recipes that you would never make anyway. This book gave me everything I needed. I always had problems when I would drop down to competition weight that I would lose my menstruation or I would be dying after a 4 hour workout and eat two chocolate croissants on my way home or I would suffer from serious fatigue and injury because I wasn't eating enough. It always seemed like I was dieting on wrong days and eating too much on others. If you have any of those problems, this book answers all of those question - what to eat when, how to eat healthy without being complicated, basic recipes for those of us with busy lives, having nutritious snacks and sports specific snacks without spending a lot of money (she really lists all of this out). How to deal with issues if you have an intense, but varying sports schedule. I was about to spend £90 seeing a nutritionist, but bought this book and am leaner and healthier than ever!

Very informative, well written, easy to follow chapters and I have recommended it to fitness instructors and personal trainers to read

I heard about this book in the runners connect podcast. This is truly a reference book I am going to keep around no matter forever. This book can help those who just have a hard time balancing your diet. I love the fact that if I'm having a hard time coming up with ideas for my meal planning that I can just pick up this book and figure it out asap.. Additionally, I feel so much better afterwards! I was having a hard time balancing my diet with having to actively working in 90 plus weather and running 20 plus miles a week. Now I have the information that I need so I don't have to go through the energy crashes, and feeling like I need to turn to junk food and bad into bad habits. When planning my food inventory at home I have what I need for my energy needs rather than what looked good on the store shelf, or sounded good in my stomach.