What you eat directly affects your performance on the rock. Sports Nutrition for Endurance Athletes provides sound nutrition guidelines to boost your athletic performance.

As climbers we regularly batter our bodies to their limits with strenuous training sessions and long days out on the rock. Recovering and benefitting from these activities demands demands smart nutrition. As climbing, even bouldering, is basically an endurance sport lessons form other sports with a similar output profile can easily be applied.  In Sports Nutrition for Endurance Athletes Monique Ryan offers proven strategies for improving athletic performance.  She uses sport-specific guidelines forseven of  the most popular endurance sports—triathlon, cycling, mountain biking, cyclo-cross, swimming, distance running, and rowing. In-depth information is presented in an easy-to-read and accessible style, with individual chapters dedicated to each endurance sport. Working out which of these most closely matches your current training/climbing regime is simple.

We all need genuine and accurate knowledge of how to assess body composition and find healthy and sustainable approaches to maintianing healthy  body fat levels and building lean muscle. Ryan also gives practical pointers such as a review of popular ergogenic aids, tips on meal planning, typical shopping lists, sample menus, glycemic index of foods, facts about vitamins and minerals, and a comparison of sports nutrition products.