The Paleo Diet for Athletes: A Nutritional Formula for Peak Athletic Performance
Rodale Books - Rodale Books
Release date: 2005-10-13
Paperback
Author: Joe Friel
Diets & dieting, Fitness & Diet, Health & Fitness, Consumer Health, Diet/Nutrition, Diets - General, Health & Fitness / Diets, Training, Athletes, High-protein diet, Nutrition, Prehistoric peoples
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The Paleo Diet for Athletes: A Nutritional Formula for Peak Athletic Performance
Date undefinedI respect Joe Friel, but this is a text heavy, dense tome - not nearly as practical as it needs to be for any reasonably experienced athlete. KISS.
The Paleo Diet for Athletes: A Nutritional Formula for Peak Athletic Performance
Date undefinedI really enjoyed this book. Its actually 2 books kind of throw together -- one by the paleo author, and one by Joe Friel. Although I have not been a big fan of Friel's writing style in his other books, he actually does a great job of explaining the nutritional pre- and post-phases for athletes. This alone is worth the price of the book.
As far as the paleo specific stuff, it was very interesting. However, realistically speaking, this diet is impossible to follow in this day and age, unless you don't have a job and have nothing better to do but stay home all day and prepare your food. Additionally, the food just doesn't sound good. Any diet that has crappy, bland food is a recipe for cheating and failure in this day and age.
I think the science of the paleo diet is questionable. I'm not a scientist, nor a dietician, but hasn't the obesity problem in the world really only come about over the last 50-60 years due primarily to processed foods? Blaming the obesity problem on agriculture and domesticated animals is a stretch because they have existed for thousands of years with no obesity problems.
Interesting information -- this is why I gave it a four star.
The Paleo Diet for Athletes: A Nutritional Formula for Peak Athletic Performance
Date undefinedI thought this book was very helpful and believeful and I started out as a total skeptic. I think think these principles are sound, although I find them hard to follow. This book is very easy to understand, even for a lay person and many sports 'self help' books aren't. I find that this book gives enough scientific evidence that makes it good, but not so much that its boring or hard to understand. Definitely a must-have for endurance athletes' reference collection.
