Sports Nutrition Education
There are many useful resources that can be used to expand your knowledge of Sports nutrition. I list some of these below.
Books:
| Optimum Sports Nutrition | Dr Michael Colgan | A detailed look at Sports nutrition with quite a bit about muscle building. Endurance athletes should take a look also. |
| The complete guide to Sports nutrition | Anita Bean | A basic level book, useful if you are new to the subject. Has a section containing recipes. |
| Sports Nutrition Guidebook | Nancy Clark | |
| The cyclists Food Guide | Nancy Clark | |
| Sports Nutrition | Asker Jeukendrup / Michael Gleeson | |
| Advanced Sports Nutrition | Dan Bernardot | A book covering most sports nutrition topics with an online version at: http://www.healthline.com/hlbook/advanced-sports-nutrition |
| Vegetarian Sports Nutrition | D. Enette Larson-Meyer | Book written by an assistant Professor of Human Nutrition at University of Wyoming and Director of the Nutrition and Exercise Laboratory. |
| Performance Nutrition for Winter Sports | Monique Ryan | A specialist angle on nutrition useful for all Winter Sports enthusiasts. |
| Thrive - Vegan Nutrition Guide | Brendan Brazier | One man's unique vegan diet for elite endurance sport. He avoids the commercial powders and gels in favour of the blender and more natural healthfoods. |
Weblinks:
Although some of the links below are for commercial sports product companies I have only selected those that contain some meaningful content beyond that of merely promoting their own products.
| http://www.gssiweb.com/ | The Gatorade Sports Science Institute | |
| http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/nutrition | The Australian Institute of Sport | Includes factsheets on carbohydrates and proteins as well as immune boosting foods, alcohol and iron levels. Also has factsheets on diabetes, gluten free and vegetarian diets nutrition for sport. Like drdobbin.co.uk they also have a section on supplements used in sports and which are worthwhile and which are not. |
| http://www.wada-ama.org/en/prohibitedlist.ch2 | The World Anti-Doping Agency | Includes up to date lists of all prohibited substances in sport. |
| http://www.lucozade.com/sport/sport-science/what-we-do/default.aspx | The Lucozade sports science academy | Basic guidelines for protein, carbohydrate and fluid ingestion as well as creatine and caffeine. Includes links to a number of Lucozade sponsored research papers in abbreviated form. |