Trying to prepare meals that everyone in the family enjoys, that fuel your gymnast properly, and that can be made in a timely fashion, is a challenge that I’m sure you all face. Do you pick this recipe because it’s what my daughter’s coaches say she should eat? Do you make your other child’s ...
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Does Your Gymnast Have Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S)?
RED-S, otherwise known as relative energy deficiency in sport, is a syndrome introduced in 2014 by the International Olympic Committee to expand upon the female athlete triad. This was much needed as the well-known “female athlete trial” is limited to females with stress fractures, amenorrhea (no ...
How to Fuel the Gymnast on Days Off Gym
With Covid-19 at the forefront of our world right now, many gymnasts continue to be pulled in and out of the gym due to safety regulations. As competition season is starting, the important Covid-19 precautions are causing a lot of disruption in many athlete’s training for these meets. Two months ...
8 Truths About the Gymnast Body
Oh the “gymnast body”, the highly coveted physique supported by unwritten rules in a sport trapped in diet culture. There is no one “gymnast body”. There is a lot of confusion about the gymnast body, especially the growing gymnast body. A lot of career ending mistakes are made by gymnasts ...
9 Things I Wish I’d Known as a Gymnast
As a former gymnast, I love gymnastics with all my heart, but I developed some really strange behaviors and habits with food + my body during the sport. It took a long time to unlearn these. Ultimately, these struggles ended my gymnastics career. Your (or your gymnast's) story doesn’t have to end ...
How much should a gymnast weigh?
One of the most frequent questions I get... How much should a gymnast weigh? Don’t worry, I “googled” this too as a teen gymnast. As a society, we are very image focused. And, some of us (especially gymnasts, former gymnasts, coaches, judges) are very numbers and data driven. There’s nothing ...
10 Best Foods for the Gymnast
It goes without saying, but a high level gymnast has extremely high energy needs with greater amounts of vitamins/minerals/antioxidants needed than the non-athlete due to this wear and tear from high levels of training (optional level gymnasts and above).Many gymnasts are missing out on some key ...
Top 10 Most Asked Gymnast Nutrition Questions
This post is a compilation of your most commonly asked gymnast nutrition questions throughout the year 2020. Many of these questions were received from parents or coaches of high level gymnasts through my Instagram, Facebook group, or course. There are so many blogs for you to enjoy over these ...
Preventing and Navigating Food Issues in Gymnasts
Gymnastics is a micro culture of our larger #dietculture. We live in a world that is consumed by thinness and health, and gymnastics is a more concentrated environment of our larger culture. So much of what our culture accepts as “normal eating” is in fact abnormal and disordered. This is even ...
Fueling the Gymnast with Food Allergy or Intolerance
Fueling the gymnast is a big undertaking and is made so much more complex when working with food allergies, intolerances, or other gastrointestinal issues. There is a lot of misinformation out there on what food allergies or intolerances are or aren’t, and this makes fueling the gymnast that much ...
