Description
How to Grow an Athlete: From Playground to Podium is every parent’s dream ‘go to’ book to help maximise your child’s growth and development and improve both sporting and academic performance. Exploring a wide range of health, food, sporting and academic advice, this ground-breaking book is by well-known dietitian and nutritionist Lea Stening who has worked in paediatrics and sports nutrition for many years.
Team culture is key to providing all children with a supportive enviroment in which to thrive, to be confident, fit and strong. And team culture includes family, school and community, not just your child’s particular sporting code. Here’s how to help your child carry a love for exercise and sport well into their adult life.
Lea has worked in all areas of school sporting codes and also nationally at high performance and academy levels including New Zealand Cricket, New Zealand Rowing, and New Zealand Paralympian sports. And although How to Grow an Athlete: From Playground to Podium focuses on children and sports nutrition, the basic themes that encourage healthy eating can be applied to the whole family.
About the Author
Lea Stening is a registered dietitian and nutritionist with more than forty years experience specialising in sports nutrition and paediatrics. She has worked in all areas of school sporting codes and also nationally at high performance and academy levels including eight years with New Zealand Cricket, five years with New Zealand Rowing, and twelve years with New Zealand Paralympian sports.
Lea’s work has taken her to Melbourne and London where she has worked in hospitals and private clinics, helping people with dietary-related health problems such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease, gastrointestinal problems, allergies and intolerances.
Lea is a member of Sports Dietitians Australia and PINES (Professional in Nutrition and Exercise and Sport), and believes that all sports dietitians and physical educators, working together globally can improve the health and physical activity of our children through better nutrition education, support and understanding.
Health promotion has also been an important part of Lea’s work, involving public lectures, writing regular newspaper and magazine articles as well as conducting television and radio interviews. She is passionate about helping developing athletes and their families improve their physical and mental performance through better nutrition. Her mission. To build a supportive environment in which children can thrive, grow to be confident, fit and strong and carry a love for exercise and sport well into their adult life.
Lea is the author of Nutrition Manual for Developing Rowers, 2005 and Healthy Kids, Happy Lives, 2017. In her new book How to Grow an Athlete: From Playground to Podium she focuses on children and sports nutrition and the basic themes that encourage healthy eating can be applied to the whole family.
Specifications
ISBN: 9781991103048
Pages: 240
Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
Format: Flexibound – Endpapers + Ribbon
Author: Lea Stening
Published: November 2022
Reviews
“This book is relevant for us all. Coaches, sports doctors, nutritionists, athletes and parents. There is enough science to satisfy the fussiest researcher. Even better is the healthy dose of common sense and clarity of advice. The practical and direct instruction separates it from the plague of unhelpful even harmful advice saturating current nutritional debate. I not only recommend this book I expect to use it on a daily basis.”
– Dr Geoff Buckett, Medical Director, Eating Disorders Service Northside West Clinic Sydney
“…How to Grow an Athlete is more than a nutrition text. More than a book for coaches and parents, the information supports the roles of Team Managers and those organising sporting events for young athletes. A must-read for high-performance Athlete Directors, wellness and life advisors and sports science personnel, as well as GPs and medical directors supporting young athletes. Support personnel for youth, such as the Youth Olympics and physiotherapists, who travel with teams, will find this material an asset.”
– Jeni Pearce, Performance Nutritionist, High Performance Sport New Zealand (NZISM v49-2)
