TY - BOOK AU - Murchison,Alan TI - the cycling chef : : Recipes for Getting Lean and Fuelling the Machine / SN - 9781472978646 U1 - 641.5 23 PY - 2021/// CY - London : PB - Bloomsbury Sport KW - Cooking KW - Cyclists KW - Nutrition N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index.; Introduction; The power to weight chart; What's to lose?; Eat less, ride more; So many diets; Training for weight loss; The fine line; The long game; Meal planner; Off-season : comforting winter warmers; Pre-season: lower carbs for body composition and getting back on track; Soft-pedalling days : lower on energy, still high on taste; Pre-race : easy-to-digest, high-energy and high-carb; Medium days : balanced middle-of-the-pack meals; Hard days : fuelling the machine N2 - A must-have recipe book designed for cyclists of all levels, written by Alan Murchison - a Michelin-starred chef and champion athlete who now cooks for elite athletes. As a cyclist, you can have the most amazing diet, but if that isn't balanced with the right training load, you can still end up piling on the pounds, which will slow you down. Michelin-starred chef and leading sports nutritionist Alan Murchison reveals how you can enjoy delicious, nutritionally balanced food and achieve sustainable long-term weight loss whilst positively impacting your cycling performance. A follow-up to Alan's award-winning The Cycling Chef, this is flavoursome food to get you lean and make you go faster. ER -