Young triathletes participate in three physically demanding sports. Days often begin with before dawn training before school and finish with after school and evening practices before heading home to do homework. Within this busy schedule is the need to nourish the young triathlete’s body to provide nutrients for growth, development and sport performance.

This book is the first of its kind as it focuses solely on young triathletes and progresses through the different developmental stages along with the different periodization cycles to teach young triathletes and their parents how to best navigate the sometimes confusing world of nutrition. Feeding a young athlete is challenging but this book provides simple to use strategies that any young triathlete or their family can use when trying to plan daily and training nutrition strategies.

This book is based on Bob Seebohar’s Optimal Nutrition System, which guides the young triathlete through foundational eating, nutrition periodization and nutrient timing and supplement use. It is the most comprehensive resource for any young triathlete, parent or coach and includes 22 easy to make recipes!

Sports Nutrition for Young Triathletes. 183 pages. 2014. Electronic copy.