Author Description

Athletes are continually searching the ways to maximize efforts in both training and performance. Sports Nutrition: A Balance Perspective for Athletes provides the best research based information that athletes need to gain an edge physically. This book presents nutritional concepts tailored for application by athletes in any sport. Many of the researches have demonstrated clearly that dependence of macro-nutrients and micro-nutrients during physical exercise and competition exists, which help in reducing oxidative stress which is experienced by most of the athletes. Despite of these nutrients there are certain other factors which are related either positively or negatively to increased exercise performance; these factors include the physiological structure, gender and age of athletes and health related complications experienced by athletes. Athletic nutrition can not be planned up to an optimal level until nutritional supplementation is also administered with diet. Proper nutrition and sound training of athletes is critical not only to their athletic success but more importantly to their overall health and fitness to achieve long term healthy living.