The Vegetarian Sports Nutrition Guide: Peak Performance for Everyone from Beginners to Gold Medalists

This book combines the unique demands of sports with a healthy vegetarian diet that can help you build energy and endurance and reduce body fat. Whether you are carbo-loading before a marathon or fine-tuning nutrition to get the most out of your workout, Lisa provides step-by-step information on how to customize your own sport-specific nutrition program and calculate a personal dietary plan for training and competition. Included are a rich array of tasty and diverse vegetarian recipes, menus, easy-to-use charts and food guides for vegetarians of all types, from the semi-vegetarian to the fruitarian. She also shares the training secrets of seventeen Olympic and world-class athletes who have used their vegetarian diets to achieve peak performance in their careers and optimum health in their lives.

“It may not be outlandish to believe that ‘when you feel good, you have more energy, you move quicker, and you feel better about yourself.’ If that is not a winning combination of factors that can generate a healthy America, one has yet to be discovered. In The Vegetarian Sports Nutrition Guide, Lisa Dorfman scores by giving 10- to 100-year-olds ways to maximize optimal fitness. Lisa Dorfman has created vast opportunities for everyone.”

— Bob Beeten, former director sports medicine, United States Olympic Committee