Nutrition for Dance and Performance

ISBN-13: 9781032112435 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str.

Jasmine Challis

Opis

This textbook covers nutrition for the scenarios dancers face, including day to day training and rehearsals, peak performance, injuries, immunonutrition, nutrition and stress management. This book guides the reader through the macronutrients making up the diet, their chemical structure and their role in health and optimal performance.

O autorze

Jasmine Challis is a freelance Registered Nutritionist (UK Association for Nutrition) and Dietitian registered with the Health Care Professions Council, and is on the UK Sport and Exercise Nutrition Register (SENr) focussing on dance. She completed a MRes in Sport and Exercise Science in 2018. She is on the Dance Medicine and Science Expert Panel for One Dance UK and is on the board of The Bridge Dance Project. She has worked across the dance field for over 30 years giving talks, running workshops and providing 1:1 sessions for dancers and dance students.