For endurance athletes, the power-to-weight ratio is critical. After all, an extra 10 pounds demands more than 6% more energy at a given pace. Racing Weight explores weight management as a means to better performance. Losing those last few pounds can seem impossible, but Racing Weight will help you hit your fastest numbers.
Endurance sports coach and certified sports nutritionist Matt Fitzgerald offers a safe and healthy 5-step plan to help you get leaner and lighter for competition. By improving the quality of your diet, managing your appetite, and timing important nutrients, you can perform better—and look and feel great.
Fitzgerald grounds his approach with practical examples of good nutrition, featuring personal food journals from elite athletes competing in six different sports and a selection of 21 recipes from professional triathlete and dietician Pip Taylor.
Racing Weight is an essential guide to help endurance athletes make the subtle but important changes they need to start their next race at their optimal weight.
Paperback. Charts, tables, and illustrations throughout.
6" x 9", 224 pp., $18.95, 978-1-934030-51-6
Download the table of contents, excerpt, free recipe, and an example strength exercise. (350kb pdf).
“I highly recommend reading Racing Weight even if you don't need to lose any excess poundage. You'll come away with a better understanding of your physiology and also of food.” — Joe Friel, founder of TrainingBible Coaching and author of The Triathlete's Training Bible and The Cyclist's Training Bible
“The mysteries of weight and its relationship to performance are unlocked in Matt Fitzgerald’s Racing Weight. If you've got a basic handle on both training and nutrition, this book offers the means to improve both your diet and athletic performance.” — DailyPeloton.com
“Fitzgerald is going to go down as one of the most competent and prolific authors of books for serious runners covering just about every legitimate aspect of the all-important runner's lifestyle.” — Letsrun.com
“It’s not too hard to convince cyclists that they can improve their performance if they drop their weight to an optimum level. However, that’s generally as useful as a physician telling a client they need to lose weight and then sending them out the office door. There are endless diet or nutrition books out there, but very few specifically catering to the endurance athlete. Into this void comes Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald.” — Pezcyclingnews.com
“Racing Weight is the first book written exclusively about an issue that is very important to runners—eating and training properly to get to the start line of the peak race with the right body composition for running fast.” — Letsrun.com
“Racing Weight offers endurance athletes a simple approach to dietary quality. The Diet Quality Score system is worth the price of the book alone. It’s easy to follow and makes sense. Amateur to professional athletes can optimize their potential with this book.” — BikeWorldNews.com
“Every now and then someone writes the giant-killer text, the volume that becomes the bible of a subject. Ten years from now most of us will be wondering how we managed before Racing Weight came along.” — RedKitePrayer.com
About Matt Fitzgerald
Matt Fitzgerald is the author of numerous published and forthcoming books on running, triathlon, sports psychology, injury prevention, nutrition and weight loss. A prolific health and fitness journalist, he is Senior Editor of Triathlete magazine and has contributed regularly to such national publications as Bicycling, Experience Life, Women's Running, Maxim, Men’s Fitness, Men’s Health, Outside, Runner’s World, Stuff, and for websites such as active.com and runnersworld.com. Fitzgerald is a featured coach with Training Peaks and a former coach with Carmichael Training Systems. He is a certified sports nutritionist (CISSN) licensed by the International Society of Sports Nutrition. Fitzgerald is a top age-group runner and triathlete.
