Sleep plays a huge role in your gymnast’s ability to perform at their highest potential, optimally recover from training, and stay in touch with their hunger and fullness.If your gymnast isn't getting enough sleep, they will not be able to reach their full potential in the gym. How much sleep ...
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4 Competition Nutrition Mistakes Ruining Your Gymnast’s Performance
It’s competition season, friends. Your gymnast has been working so hard in the gym, day in day out, to perfect her skills and routines for the big event. She has nailed her Performance Nutrition Strategy which has made a huge impact on her performance and recovery. In fact, you’ve never seen her ...
Top 3 mistakes gymnasts make with intraworkout nutrition
What is “intraworkout nutrition”? This is the food that athletes use during workouts to boost performance. This food is not just nutritive in the sense of abating “hunger”, but is specifically used to “fuel for the work required”. Most sports like soccer, football, basketball, endurance running ...
Healthy Weight Gain for the Gymnast
What do you do if your gymnast is “underweight” or has been diagnosed with an eating disorder, lost her period, or has what’s called “relative energy deficiency in sport”?Or, what if your pediatrician tells you your gymnast is not growing, and you need to start Pediasure or Orgain and see an ...
How much protein does a gymnast need?
Most gymnast’s love protein because society (#dietculture) has deemed this fairly “safe”. There is a lot of misguided advice and false notion that “fat makes you fat” and “carbs make you fat” which leaves protein as the more neutral of the three major macronutrients (carbs, protein, fat). Here’s ...
What diet is best for a gymnast?
“Should my gymnast be on a low carb diet to ‘stay trim’?” Oh boy. Let’s unpack this question.First off, in a sport that is so image-focused, we’ve all wondered if there’s a “magic bullet” out there that would allow gymnasts to stay lean with visible 6-packs and not an ounce of cellulite ...
Parenting the Gymnast: Nutrition Edition
Do you ever worry that you’re not feeding your high level gymnast the right foods for optimal performance? Do you feel like a short order cook trying to meet the entire family’s nutritional needs? Do you watch your gymnast struggle through practice and complain of exhaustion, yet feel at loss for ...
The Gymnast’s Guide to Muscle Soreness and Inflammation
Muscle soreness is a limiting factor in gymnast performance, and inflammation is a pre-courser/indirect cause. Hard training sessions, overdone conditioning sessions, or just general wear & tear will slow down a gymnasts’ progress.As a result, the sports supplement industry is a multi-billion ...
Hydration for the Gymnast- More than just water [Part 2]
Be sure to go check out part 1 of this blog series to get caught up on the basics of hydration, fluids and electrolytes, and why this matters for the gymnast. In this post we’re going to continue the discussion and get to the practical application (which you’ve all been waiting for!). When you ...
Bone Health for the Gymnast- Energy Availability, Vitamin D, Calcium
Bone health is an essential aspect to the longevity of a gymnast’s career in the sport and has lasting effects years beyond sport. Many high-level gymnasts will have their Vitamin D levels checked as it’s generally known that this vitamin has positive effects on bone health. But, not as well known, ...
