Sports Nutrition Handbook

Sports Nutrition Handbook unpacks the need-to-know concepts of sports nutrition into everyday language, making fueling and daily diet easily understandable to athletes across a wide range of sports. Athletes will find the hows and whys of sports nutrition offered in plain languageno science required! Sports Nutrition Handbook is clear, easy to use as a reference, and includes the details if you want to explore more deeply.

Sports Nutrition Handbook answers frequently asked questions in a straightforward and simple way. How do HIIT workouts promote weight loss? Does it help or harm to eat carbs before bedtime? Why do early morning workouts feel so different than workouts after breakfast? Why do marathoners often hit “the wall”?

Answers to all your sports nutrition questions are easy to find, simple to grasp, and actionable for your next workout or race.

Justyna Mizera, MA, is a sports nutritionist, and since 2009 she has balanced over 1,100 diets for athletes in various sports. She works with, among others, 30 world championship medalists and Olympians, but also with obese adults and children. She has competed in body fitness competitions. Author of numerous scientific and popular-science articles. She appears as an expert source for television stations. She also teaches courses in dietetics.

Krzysztof Mizera, PhD, is a sport physiologist and personal trainer. He works with leading athletes and amateurs in training, weight loss, improving motor skills, performance, and nutrition. Since 2008 he has been a lecturer at various universities. Mizera has contributed to numerous scientific projects and conferences. His doctoral thesis dealt with the nutrition in athletes. He is the author of over 120 publications and the bestseller Running Is Simple.