Bicycling Fuel: Nutrition for Bicycle Riders

By Richard Rafoth

Book Overview

What you eat is what you are, and the right diet will help your cycling. Much research has been done on the effect of diet on performance in cycling and other sports. Yet there is hardly a subject... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0933201540
• ISBN13: 9780933201545
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Bicycle Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Eating Right for the Right Ride

Most cyclists I know have a standard diet for racing and riding irregardless of the distance and intensity. I belonged to the "One diet fits all group" as well. I was more interested in learning how to loose weight by cycling than pre- and post racing diet habits. Nevertheless it was very intersting to learn about proper nutrition to boost performance.The book starts off dealing mainly with basic education about nutrition, such as what are fats, protiens, carbohydrates etc., The authors thuroughly explain how the body creats energy, metabolism and which foods should be eaten for immeadiate energy boost or foods the body digests slowly for long distance racing. Do the energy bars really give you the added kick to stimulate your performance? Well not really and they provide the same amount of energy as any normal carbohydrate snack such as cookies etc.,The book is divided into 4 specific sections of nutrition for:1.) the recreational cyclists2.) the endurance cyclists3.) the elite cyclists4.) the mountain bikersIt is overall a good book, it goes into detail wtihout being flooded with specific occupational dieticians jargon. I was looking for a book that would give more insight into "How to lose weight by cyclying" which this wasn't but it did bring up several facts and nutritional habits that I was not aware about.