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Diet & Food Considered In Relation To Strength & Power Of Endurance, Training & Athletics

Diet & Food Considered In Relation To Strength & Power Of Endurance, Training & Athletics

Haig, Alexander

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Gifts & Stationery GeneralDiet & NutritionGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354442323
ISBN13: 9789354442322
Publisher: Alpha Ed
Published: Feb 26 2021
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What fuels real strength and lasting stamina? Strength begins at the table. First published in the early twentieth century, Alexander Haig's Diet & Food Considered In Relation To Strength & Power Of Endurance, Training & Athletics distils a physician's insight into a classic sports nutrition guide for serious competitors and thoughtful readers alike. Drawing on the strongman era of bodybuilding and competitive athletics, Haig explores how daily food choices shape muscular power, recovery, and resilience under strain. Written as an accessible athletic training handbook, this vintage health and fitness volume treats diet for strength as a central part of athletes training and conditioning, not a sideline. Haig examines the balance of fuel and restraint, the kinds of meals that support endurance and stamina, and the consequences of excess and deficiency, offering clear, reasoned guidance that still resonates with modern ideas of nutrition for athletes. At once practical reference for coaches and trainers and a window into early 20th century fitness culture, it captures the moment when scientific thinking first met organised sport on the training ground and in the dining room. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this classic physical culture book is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, it will appeal to anyone drawn to old school strength training, strongman era bodybuilding, and the historical roots of the endurance and stamina diet.

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