The All-Pro Diet: Lose Fat, Build Muscle, and Live Like a Champion - Hardcover

Gonzalez, Tony; Dulan, Mitzi

 
9781605299518: The All-Pro Diet: Lose Fat, Build Muscle, and Live Like a Champion
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1605299510 ISBN 13: 9781605299518
Verlag: Rodale Press, 2009

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A KC Chiefs pro-bowler and team nutritionist describe the diet and lifestyle choices that helped Gonzalez to reach his athletic goals, outlining an eating program for improving strength, stamina, and energy by reducing animal and processed ingredients and increasing plant-based foods.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

TONY GONZALEZ is a record-holding Tight End for the Atlanta Falcons and appeared regularly as a celebrity judge on Oprah Winfrey's ABC primetime series The Big Give. Renowned for his generous charity work, he lives near Los Angeles, California.
MITZI DULAN, RD, in addition to her positions as nutritionist for Kansas City's pro football and baseball teams, has been featured in Newsweek, Fitness, and other magazines and on Discovery's Science Channel. She resides outside of Kansas City.

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CHAPTER 1

MY PLAN OF ACTION

"CHANGING YOUR DIET JUST MIGHT SAVE YOUR LIFE."

--Mitzi Dulan

In this book, I'm going to share a nutrition and lifestyle plan that will help you lose weight, gain muscle, and live a healthier life. I want to emphasize, first of all, that this isn't some gimmicky diet and exercise program that guarantees you'll lose X number of £ds per week or develop the kind of washboard abs that will earn you the Mr. Fitness award. But I can guarantee this: It's a plan that works for me.

It's true that you don't have quite as much at stake as I do. In all likelihood, your next year's employment contract does not depend on being strong, fit, and ready for the once-a-week thunder of an all-consuming NFL game. I'm willing to bet your Sunday afternoons during football season are considerably more relaxing than mine. You may not feel compelled, as I do, to jump rope a thousand times or bench-press a couple hundred £ds. But still, I'll bet there's one very important thing that you and I have in common. We like to feel good. We like to wake up with plenty of energy and feel invigorated rather than exhausted when we exercise. I'll bet you like the feeling of being fit as much as I do. And, yup, I'll bet you even love to eat as much as I do--but you hate the feeling of car rying around a lot of excess fat on your body.

So here's what we share (I'll bet): a healthy respect for feeling good.

Here's what we don't like (I'll bet again): feeling like a slug.

And here's what we really dread (my final bet): losing our health.

THE PLUSES FOR EVERYONE

What if I told you I could come up with a total plan that would help you have more endurance, better focus, and faster recovery? Wouldn't you be interested? Even if you're not a pro athlete, these are things all of us want. Here's what I mean:

More energy and endurance--You last longer when everyone else is getting tired.

Better focus--In the meeting room, in the classroom, at home, out on the field; wherever you are, you have greater ability to concentrate on what needs to be done. And that means you're not going to let other people down!

Faster recovery--The day after working out hard or playing a tough game, you come back feeling fresh and full of energy. The other guys may look at you like you're crazy, but you really have that kind of bounce-back capability. They're aching and hurting and moaning and, sure, you've got a few bumps and bruises, but you're ready to go again!

These were all the benefits I started to experience when I switched to the All-Pro Diet that I describe in this book. It all adds up to better performance. For a professional athlete, having more endurance, better focus, and faster recovery means being able to work harder and play better than ever before. And that means a longer career. For a young athlete, it means making the A team instead of the B team, which might mean getting the athletic scholarship instead of someone else. However, it is in no way all about money--more importantly, this is about your lifelong health. For everyone else, more endurance, better focus, and faster recovery means not letting teammates or colleagues down, staying in the game, and coming in fresh and full of energy no matter what the activity. Who wouldn't make this choice? It's a no-brainer.

This lifestyle program can make the biggest difference in the world. It's more than a nutrition and exercise program. It's also the mental work that you do to make yourself better. And that's what it's all about. Focus on getting better--all the time--and no matter how you look at it, you're going to come closer to achieving your dreams. It's really worth it!

THE HEALTH DIMENSION

What are the benefits of switching over to a different kind of diet?

I can only speak for myself, of course. But I've also done some reading on the subject--enough to sound a few alarms about the way most of us eat today. And by "most of us," I'm not talking just about football players.

The wake-up call regarding my own health came in the form of two unrelated crises. My first big scare came when I was diagnosed with Bell's palsy, a form of temporary facial paralysis resulting from damage or trauma to one of two facial nerves. It's not a condition that can be immediately diagnosed, and before the doctors figured out what it was, they told me I might have had a stroke, a brain aneurysm, or meningitis. I was rushed to the hospital, where they immediately performed a CAT scan. During that long ride and the examination that followed, I had the opportunity to do some very serious soul-searching about the direction my life was taking.

I was lucky! When the tests showed I had Bell's palsy, the doctors assured me that there was about a four-in-five chance that I would recover fully. If all went well, my initial symptoms--the numbness and sagging features-- would right themselves without any serious aftereffects. Many people with Bell's palsy get over it without ever having a recurrence. As it turned out, an acupuncture treatment was extremely helpful to me, and the paralysis went away in 2 weeks.

But another health scare lay ahead. Just before the 2007-2008 football season, I went for my annual preseason physical in Kansas City. As usual, I had a blood test at the hospital. As I was leaving town to head back home to California, I got a call from the team trainer. He told me my white blood cell count was dangerously low. I had to return immediately for another blood test.

"GIVEN WHAT I DO FOR A LIVING, MY BODY IS MY TEMPLE--AND YOU NEED TO PUT THE RIGHT THINGS IN YOUR BODY. IF YOU ARE NOT EATING THE RIGHT THINGS OR GETTING THE PROPER AMOUNT OF REST, YOU WON'T BE PRODUCTIVE."

--Tony Richardson, 15-Year NFL Veteran

Back in Kansas City, as I gave blood for the second time, I was told by the doctor that unless the first test was wrong, my football career was over. I was facing a serious medical situation. Again, I suffered through a prolonged waiting period when, it seemed, my whole life hung in the balance. Would I ever walk out on the gridiron again? Was my career really over? Suddenly, I was seeing my life from a completely different perspective--from the point of view of someone who might have only months to live. It was a shock. After the doctor called me, I can remember driving in my car with tears running down my face.

Good Eating --It's Infectious!

"NFL players reflect similar eating challenges that many other men face and their nutrition concerns are as varied and individual as the number of players on a team. Knowing how much to eat, when to eat, and what to eat are questions many players ask. Figuring out how to prepare or purchase the foods that will both fuel and nourish them is an ongoing task. One of the goals of the team nutritionist is to help the athlete find what works best for that individual in considering training and recovery demands, food preferences, health history, and ideology while keeping lifestyle and performance goals in mind."

--Heidi Skolnik, MS, CDN, FACSM, Team Nutritionist for the New York Giants

To my incredible relief, the second test came back normal. It turned out the lab had confused my blood test results with those of another patient. It was a terrible error, and I can't imagine what it was like for the person who had to be told the bad news. But for the moment, I had dodged the bullet.

Though relieved, I still felt sobered by these experiences. Each time, I was reminded just how important my good health is to me and how much I take it for granted. Yet, at the same time, I was reading books like TheChina Study by T. Colin Campbell, an author who offered clear statistical and epidemiological evidence that my diet was a train wreck just waiting to happen.

The convincing proof was mounting...

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Verlag
Rodale Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1605299510
ISBN 13 
9781605299518
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