Customer Reviews

Eating for Endurance

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Thru Ellen's insight, guidance and words, ordinary people have another tool to accomplish extraordinary things. To complete long distance events, nutrition can make or break you. I have run ultramarathons, competed in Ironman triathlons, and ventured into other fun things like the Mojave 250 mile Death Race. I trust Ellen's words and guidance in fueling my body to go the distance.

I'm an Ironman coach and am constantly searching for resources and references to teach my athletes about racing and training. Sports nutrition is a huge component of their success. This book is on my must read list for every athlete I coach. Ellen presents the reader with commonsense advice. Most importantly, her advice can be followed without the need to make drastic, and often unrealistic, lifestyle choices.

Understandable, practical, realistic, and it works. I highly recommend Ellen's book as a reference in your training library.

Ellen's book is the most concise, clear, and thorough explanation for nutrition for endurance athletes that I have found to date. Her writing style is easy to read and comprehend, her information is well supported, and her nutritional approach is realistic for work-a-day athletes. As a back-of-the-pack to midpack triathlete, I was able to come away from reading this book with a better understanding of how nutrition impacts performance and come away better armed for the upcoming triathlon season.

No idea what book the one reviewer was reading, it certainly couldn't have been Eating for Endurance. I compete competitively in triathlon and found this book very educational. Not only to read but also as a reference book.
Clearly presented and thoughtfully written from with athletes point of view, what is fad and what actually works, along with the reference material to back up those claims.
I'd recommend this book for any endurance or ultra endurance athlete.

I love this little book. I use regularly to figure out how many calories I burn in a work out session or how much carbohydrate I should eat today given how long I worked out.

I think that for most age-group athletes (I do triathlons) sports nutrition doesn't need to be that involved. You can get everything you need to know in the three or four hours it will take you to read this book -- explained in an easy to understand way with instructions that are easy to follow.

This book provides a simple, holistic, easy-to-use set of guidelines regarding appropriate nutrition for endurance athletics. It's a subject that needn't be over-complicated to get right. Nutrition is right up there with religion and politics for evoking fervent reactions, but if you want to skip the fads, fringe plans, and diets-of-the-week, this is an excellent tome to eat by.

Couldn't compete at the Ironman Level of triathln without this in my library. if you are going to go long you have to read this book.

This book contains some good information for being able to endure during long bouts of exercise. There are many chapters that deal with issues such as protein, fats, sugars, caffein, carbohydrate-loading, and other things. It explains how the body has energy stored inside as fat and there's also oxygen that is readily available.

What I didn't like about this book were the opening paragraphs that were stories to each chapter. Some of them were too stereotypical. The other thing I didn't like was the sample menu's for someone to eat every day. They seemed to be too light for most people. There was one that said for breakfast all you eat is some cereal, orange juice, some fruit, and a piece of toast. I had heard before that breakfast was the most important meal of the day.

This book goes straight to the point. It tells you a little bit of everything you need to know about Endurance Nutrition to be a safe and self-reliable athlete.
Very effective, speacially if you are not looking to very specific information.

The book is easy to read and offers great advice on nutrition. The book is not exclusively for the endurance athletes but can be use by anyone.