Chris Carmichael's Food for Fitness: Eat Right to Train Right

by Chris Carmichael, Kathy Zawadzki, Jim Rutberg

Book Overview

From the coach of several of the world's greatest athletes comes a revolutionary eating plan for all active people--from weekend warriors to elite competitors to those just trying to lose a few pounds and be more fit.

You'll learn:
-The truth and consequences of low-carb diets for athletes
-Chris Carmichael's step-by-step method to match your nutrition to your activity level for better workouts and fewer excess calories
-The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425202550
• ISBN13: 9780425202555
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

great athelete food book

Within 3 weeks of implementing the basic concepts I noticed a massive difference in my ability to train productively on successive days and that my soreness after long runs of 10-20 miles was drastically cut. One of the great things about this book is that you can apply it's concepts in a macro or micro level pretty easilly, from grams to food groups to eating for specific training cycles. The organization and layout could use some cleaning up, but the content makes up for it. It has plenty of sample diets, though it could use a little more. Truly outstanding!

Hardcore

This book is for the people who have been workingout for some time, like a few years and races under thier belts. The advice is layed out nicly with some interesting outlook on food intake and placement in the reader's workout routine. Chris doesn't hold back on his advice, but at times you wish there was more on the subject and left you hanging. Overall recommend this book to enhance your performance in long distance events and training.

A great resource

I have a masters degree in Exercise Physiology, and as such, have had numerous courses and training in exercise nutrition. I found this book to be incredibly helpful and an all-around great nutritional resource. It touches all of the main points of nutrition and really does a good job of applying the principles to active individuals.

AMAZING BOOK!

As someone with insulin issues (Insulin resistance) I have struggled for the last year to find any information on nutrition that related to me as a runner. All the info I could find was either geared to marathoners who run 60-80+ miles weekly, or to couch potatoes...my 4-5 hour a week training didn't seem to fit in anybody's info, even though i was infinitely more active than anyone in my circle of friends. There was nothing in the middle for me and it was frustrating. I bought Chris's book 48 hours ago, the day it arrived in our bookstore. It is without question, the best resource on running and eating I have ever read, and I've done literally hundreds of hours of research trying to find information applicable to me. I was concerned about the book being too elitist, but it is amazing. He has absolutely done his homework on everything from low-carbing to sports drinks and I have no doubt my book will get worn out from all the referencing I will be doing. I haven't been able to put it down. He writes as an authority, but he his style is one as fellow athlete and not preacher. The book is a wealth of graphs and charts and things to help us individually. Some folks might get bogged down in some of the detailed nutrition info, but I have to admit it fascinated me. It was well-written and his stories involving real life athletes are engaging. I HIGHLY reccommend this book. Not only does the guy's reputation precede him, but as somebody who has struggled to find good info from the monotonous assembly line of books on running/athletics out there, I've found this book to be the cream of the crop. Chris has an all-encompassing, realistic and well written book for everybody from serious to recreational athlete.

Great New Perspective For Active People

It's about time someone wrote a new nutrition book for active people. This book cuts through all the carb confusion to give people who exercise real information about how much carbohydrate and protein we need, and the reasons why. Carmichael gives low-carb diets credit for being effective for weight loss, but then provides all the reasons a higher-carbohdyrate diet is better for active people. More than that, he tells you how to match nutrition to training so you perform better and control your weight during the year. This is the plan Carmichael uses with Lance Armstrong, who just won his sixth Tour de France. I expected the book to be over my head, but I am impressed; Carmichael makes science easy to understand and applies his common-sense nutrition program to middle-aged, moderately-active, very busy men like me. I haven't tried the recipes or used the meal plans in the back of the book yet, but I expect they're as good as the information that precedes them.