Feed Zone Portables: A Cookbook of On-The-Go Food for Athletes (The Feed Zone Series)

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Along the way there are soundbites from a wealth of professional athletes extolling the virtues of homemade nutrition. It might take a while to work your way through the book to find out what works best for you, but it won't be an onerous task, with plenty of tasty recipes in every section.

The first section of the book is dedicated to rice cakes, which are such a staple of the pro peloton that it's difficult to understand why they don't feature much more in the world of mass-produced, off-the-shelf ride nutrition. As well as a wide range of recipes for fuelling your riding, it also has lots of useful information about nutrition for cyclists. With a little pre-planning, these items (all easy, all developed in Thomas' home kitchen) can be taken with you for nourishment on a hike, on a ride-or simply to work or on a road trip. Their groundbreakingFeed Zone Cookbookbrought the favorite recipes of the pros to everyday athletes. Overall, it's a genuinely interesting and useful book, with a wide range of ride nutrition options to try, and plenty of science at the start to get your teeth into as well.Primarily designed for cyclists to eat while riding, [these recipes] work just as well for runners when they've stopped running for exercise and started running to get to where they need to go on time.

D. and chef Biju Thomas, authors of The Feed Zone cookbooks, have spent decades working with endurance athletes to find the balance between taste, sport-specific nutrition, and portability. Feed Zone Portables includes75 all-new recipes that taste great during exercise: Rice Cakes, Two-Bite Pies, Griddle Cakes, Waffles, Baked Eggs, Sticky Bites, Rice Balls, Ride Sandwiches, Baked Cakes, and Cookies A smart introduction on how real food works better for athletes More than 50 no-fuss gluten-free recipes, including great-tasting cookies and cakes More than 50 vegetarian recipes. The genius of Feed Zone Portables is this: The book sits at the intersection of reality and practicality. He shows how much athletes really need to eat and drink at different exercise intensities and in cold or hot weather.

Because the body burns solid and liquid foods differently, Lim defines a new approach for athletes to drink for hydration and eat real food for energy.

Lim offer 75 all-new portable food recipes for cyclists, runners, triathletes, mountain bikers, climbers, hikers, and backpackers. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.This title includes quick and easy recipes for athletes, photographs of every dish, complete nutrition data, tips on why these are the best foods for athletes, and time-saving ways on how to cook real food every day.