Nutrition Periodization for Endurance Athletes or Sacred Path Companion

Nutrition Periodization for Endurance Athletes: Taking Traditional Sports Nutrition to the Next Level

Author: Bob Seebohar

Nutrition Periodization for Endurance Athletes contains everything athletes and professionals need to know about a year-round approach to training and nutrition. Combining traditional physical training cycle principles with the latest nutritional expertise, this useful guide takes sports nutrition to the next level. Typically, an athlete's nutritional choices are scrutinized only for the weeks leading up to an event and immediately after it. However, for athletes who take a year-round approach to training, a more inclusive approach to nutrition can promote peak performance and a successful season. Benefits of a phase-specific approach are discussed as well as detailed nutritional recommendations for the different phases of the training cycle.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
1	Periodization	5
	What is Periodization?	5
	Overtraining and Injury	10
2	Nutrients for Life	15
	The Six Essential Nutrients	16
	Digestion Basics	17
	Carbohydrates	18
	Protein	22
	Fat	26
	Water	32
	Vitamins	34
	Minerals	38
	Fiber	41
	Summary	43
3	Nutrition Periodization	47
	The Important Role of Nutrition	47
	Periodization and Nutrition Planning	49
	Macrocycle Nutrition Guidelines	51
	Mesocycle and Microcycle Nutrition Guidelines	57
	Summary	100
4	Successful Weight Management	101
	Making a Lifestyle Change	102
	Timing of Weight Loss	102
	Basics of Weight Loss	105
	Why Fad Diets Don't Work	109
	Measure Your RMR	111
	Safe Steps to Weight Loss: How to Do It	113
	Summary	122
5	Nutrition Supplementation	123
	The Nutrition Supplements Market	124
	Nutrition Supplements for the Endurance Athlete	130
	Summary	146
6	special Considerations for the Endurance Athlete	149
	Dehydration	150
	Heat Cramps	154
	Hyponatremia	158
	Immune System Depression	162
	Summary	169
	Index	171

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Sacred Path Companion: A Guide to Walking the Labyrinth to Heal and Transform

Author: Lauren Artress

Full of exercises, suggestions, questionnaires, assignments, and meditations for getting the most out of the Labyrinth experience, The Sacred Path Companion is the indispensable guide for anyone searching for a spiritual journey that will inspire, educate, and engage.

Created by one of the guiding forces of the Labyrinth movement and the author of Walking a Sacred Path, this comprehensive and interactive workbook includes:

- The art of Labyrinth walking
- The nine lessons of the Labyrinth
- Four guidelines to gauge spiritual growth
- Specific uses for healing and transformation through the Labyrinth
- Forgiveness and reconciliation
- The six purposes of ritual
- Developing visions for the Labyrinth movement

AUTHORBIO:
LAUREN ARTRESS is the author of Walking a Sacred Path. She is the founder and president of Veriditas, the Voice of the Labyrinth Movement, and is the former canon for special ministries at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral.