Weight Management for Triathletes ─ When Training Is Not Enough

Every triathlete wants to be leaner, faster, and more successful. But for most athletes, training is not enough. You need to focus on diet as well as training volume to achieve your optimal weight.

Weight Management for Triathletes provides detailed and practical information and the tools that can help frustrated triathletes to improve their body composition for performance and aesthetics. This book is aimed to help triathletes competing on every level and distance from sprint to Olympic and longer distances.

Well researched and insightful, this book offers easy-to-follow strategies for various diets, describes the importance of low body fat, and shows how to use body fat data in order to implement a weight control program for the long haul. You will find the motivation and encouragement to lose weight, and with a leaner and fitter body, and an understanding of proper nutrition you will quickly perform better in races.

Ingrid Loos Miller is a USAT Certified Coach, Sport Nutrition Consultant, and triathlete. A Team Trainer for the Weight WatchersR Momentum Challenge, she has helped athletes and non-athletes alike achieve their weight loss goals by showing them how to reduce the calorie impact of the foods they enjoy. She teaches the strategies needed to achieve goals and provides tools and daily practices that make permanent weight management a reality. Even after becoming an IronmanR and a regular podium finisher in triathlons, her greatest personal accomplishment has been overcoming a lifelong struggle with weight. She has written for Trail Runner Magazineand her writing has appeared in Triathlete Magazine, Marathon and Beyond, and on BeginnerTriathlete.com. Ingrid lives and coaches in Southern California.