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The Cycling Chef: Recipes for Getting Lean and Fuelling the Machine

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The Cycling Chef: Recipes for Getting Lean and Fuelling the Machine by Alan Murchison offers a collection of nutritious recipes tailored for cyclists seeking to enhance performance and maintain a healthy weight. Combining expert insights from a professional chef and competitive athlete, the book provides practical meal plans and culinary tips to optimise energy and recovery. It focuses on balanced nutrition, making it an ideal guide for both amateur and seasoned cyclists.
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You might enjoy this book if you're keen on enhancing your cycling performance through nutrition. Written by a Michelin-starred chef and competitive cyclist, it offers a range of recipes designed to help you get lean while fuelling your body efficiently. Perfect for cycling enthusiasts looking to gain a nutritional edge and enjoy delicious, healthy meals.

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The Cycling Chef: Recipes for Getting Lean and Fuelling the Machine

In his latest book, Michelin star chef, elite athlete and celebrated cycling nutritionist Alan Murchison reveals how you can enjoy delicious food and lose weight while maintaining your cycling performance.

In a follow-up to the bestselling Cycling Chef, Michelin-starred chef, elite athlete and celebrated cycling nutritionist Alan Murchison reveals how you can enjoy delicious food and get lean without it impacting your cycling performance.

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'I can't think of a finer chef to have written a book on nutrition and diet for athletes' – Tom Kerridge

'Top meals from the Michelin-starred chef who is also a champion athlete... Catnip for the style-obsessed, Rapha-wearing aficionado'The Times

‘Alan’s food is simple, yet tasty and powerful. He’s been a key component for my training and racing.’ – Alex Dowsett, World Tour rider, former World Hour Record Holder and national champion

'Alan has completely changed my perception of what an athlete’s diet can look like.' – Elinor Barker, multiple world champion and Olympic gold medallist

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.

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Alan Murchison melds his expertise as a world-class chef and competitive athlete to craft recipes that marry great taste with nutritional balance. His work in The Cycling Chef: Recipes for Getting Lean and Fuelling the Machine receives praise for its practical approach to making healthy eating delicious. Esteemed individuals like Michelin-starred chefs and professional athletes commend Alan's ability to redefine perceptions of an athlete's diet with simple yet effective meals.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781472978646

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 March 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Sport

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 192.0mm

Height: 248.0mm

Weight: 766g

Pages: 192

About the Author

Alan Murchison is a Michelin-starred chef with over 25 years’ experience working in starred restaurants (he held a Michelin star for over a decade and had 4 AA Rosettes whist executive Chef at L'Ortolan restaurant in Berkshire), he is also a multiple World & European age group duathlon champion, national level master’s cyclist & ex-international endurance runner.

Alan provides bespoke nutritional support for athletes across a number of sports, predominantly cyclists. He works with athletes across a range of abilities from first timers looking to just complete an event to current Olympic gold medallists.

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