Championship Nutrition and Performance: The Wrestler's Guide to Lifestyle, Diet and Healthy Weight Control [Paperback]

Nicholas Rizzo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2004

This is a new book written to help wrestlers on all levels achieve their best by competing as close to their minimum natural weight (and proper weight class) without compromising their health, and get the full benefits of the sport of wrestling. Advantages of this book include its completeness and easy readability, with important "take home" messages highlighted. While written for the wrestler, it also keeps the coaches’, parents', trainer's and team physician's perspectives in mind. It teaches how proper weight management is much better than "cutting weight", how to get the right calories and nutrients from the right sources, how conditioning and training apply to proper weight management, and how to avoid lifestyle mistakes that can hurt performance. Also, it is intended to help wrestlers learn healthy lifestyle and eating habits that will benefit them long after they have stopped competing. Other aspects of health and wrestling are addressed in the Bonus Section, which covers topics like skin care, guidelines for parents, when to use heat and cold for injuries, cauliflower ear, illness prevention, wrestling room sanitation, and other topics.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Excellent and I really enjoyed it... I particularly enjoyed the sections on ringworm, etc." -- Dr. John Dahlem, Health Committee for Wrestling in the State of California

"This book has everything you need for practicing proper weight control and learning how nutrition contributes to peak performance." -- Alan Fried, Three-time All-American, NCAA Division I National Champion, Oklahoma State University

"Whether a newcomer to the sport or a veteran... will provide you with the necessary skills to achieving success..." -- Amatuer Wrestling News, January 4, 2004, Book Review by Brendan Heffernan

Finally, a nutrition and diet book for wrestlers that makes sense. -- Jack Griffin, Two-time All-American, NCAA Division I National Champion, Olympic Team Alternate, Assistant Director for Athletic Development, Northwestern University

[This] will show you how to take the bad effects of improper weight loss out of the equation. -- Pat Quirk, Big Ten Champion, Two-time All-American, NCAA Division I Finalist, University of Illinois

From the Author

While coaching during the 2001-2003 seasons, several wrestlers asked Dr. Rizzo general and specific questions regarding diet, nutrition, supplements and weight control. He found an excellent educational brochure published in 1991 by the Quaker Oats Company, the makers of Gatorade®. This brochure was notable for, among other things, the format and content being geared in a clear, easy-to-understand format for high school wrestlers. This gave Dr. Rizzo the idea to create a manuscript with similar content, but with updated nutritional information from more current research, and additional sections on topics like supplements and hydration guidelines. He distributed this among wrestlers, and found a better-than-expected response, with two of the wrestler’s moms actually taking the manuscript to the grocery store and referring to it as they did their shopping!

Over the next one and one half seasons, he continually added to the manuscript to the point where it needed to be bound for effective use. Also, being a big advocate of patient education in his own private practice, he found himself giving out patient information materials on specific injuries and skin conditions to affected wrestlers. He found some of these innately inadequate, and re-wrote a number of them with more thorough information, and more relevance to the sport of wrestling. After compiling a number of these, he added them to the manuscript as an added "Bonus Section" on common skin conditions and injuries in the sport of wrestling.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 114 pages
• Publisher: Executive Performances Inc; Revised edition (January 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974822000
• ISBN-13: 978-0974822006
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,308,498 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read for ANY fitness-minded individual, March 14, 2004

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This review is from: Championship Nutrition and Performance: The Wrestler's Guide to Lifestyle, Diet and Healthy Weight Control (Paperback)

There are many great things to say about this book. It overflows with vital and useful information for the true athlete or any fitness-minded person. It is very easy to read with smartly organized sections and succinct presentation. In addition there are lots of charts with practical data that allows the reader to easily put the author's suggestions to use. Finally, the author makes this book fun to read as he interjects humor and jokes throughout. This humor allows the reader to easily remember the author's suggestions as well.