Do diet supplements aid training and competing?

Diets Designed for Athletes (Human Kinetics) helps athletes and coaches cut through the hype with straightforward guidance on choosing supplements.

Do Diet Supplements Aid Training and Competing?

CHAMPAIGN, IL-Dietary supplements are being promoted in just about every sport, and virtually every athlete today uses some performance-enhancing product. Used properly, the right supplements can dramatically improve an athletes performance. However, with so many options on the market, many athletes purchase supplements without fully understanding them, often wasting money and-worse yet-jeopardizing their health and conditioning
Diets Designed for Athletes helps athletes and coaches cut through the hype with straightforward guidance on choosing supplements. This comprehensive guide covers the pros and cons of all the sports performance supplements currently available-both those in stores and their natural alternatives. In this text, athletes and coaches can find the information they need to evaluate performance-enhancing products, choose them wisely, and build them into a program that supports their conditioning and competitive goals.
Diets Designed for Athletes is based on real-life experiences as well as scientific evidence. Author Maryann Karinch, a certified personal trainer, is widely published and an extreme athlete herself. With her personal insights and an array of stories and tips from other nutritionists, athletes, and coaches, this book is as entertaining as it is practical.
For the millions of athletes and trainers in endurance sports, strength sports, and team sports, as well as nutritionists and fitness professionals, Diets Designed for Athletes answers pressing questions about dietary supplements and how they should be used.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Maryann Karinch has written numerous books and articles on fitness and nutrition, including Lessons from the Edge, a book featuring stories and how-to insights from athletes in extreme sports; and Boot Camp, a humorous back-to-basics fitness plan, coauthored by Patrick The Sarge" Avon.
An avid competitor in endurance and outdoor sports, Karinch began her serious study of nutrition in an effort to improve her own performance without the use of anabolic steroids. She has successfully competed in powerlifting and National Physique Committee bodybuilding events, and she was a member of one of the few teams to complete the inaugural Eco-Challenge in southern Utah. She was also a collegiate regional gymnastics champion.
Karinch has continued her advanced nutrition studies as a certified personal trainer with the American Council on Exercise (ACE). She holds an MA in speech and drama from the Catholic University of America.