The Performance Zone: Your Nutrition Action Plan for Greater Endurance & Sports Performance
Synthesizes up-to-date science for a nutrition action plan that enables athletes to raise athletic performance.
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Book details
- Author
- John Ivy
- Imprint
- Basic Health Publications, Inc., an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Health & Fitness › Diet & Nutrition › Nutrition
Sports & Recreation › Training - Topics
- sports nutrition · athletic performance · endurance sports · nutrition for athletes · sports training · exercise science
- ISBN-13
- 9781591201489 (Paperback)9781681628165 (Hardcover)
About the author
JOHN IVY, PH.D., is an exercise physiologist and the author of more than 190 scientific papers and four books on sports nutrition, including The Performance Zone and Nutrient Timing: The Future of Sports Nutrition, co-authored with Robert Portman.
Ivy is a fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology and the American College of Sports Medicine, and has received the ACSM Citation Award and the Tom Osborne Award from the Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitians Association.
When not writing, Ivy draws on 31 years on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, including 13 years as Chair of the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education. His research helped pioneer the understanding of muscle metabolism and the role of nutritional supplementation in exercise performance, recovery, and training adaptation.