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 ...
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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 ...
PMS and the Gymnast
We’ve all been there as female gymnasts. While getting your period is the “entry into womanhood”, most young gymnasts think this monthly visitor is a total nuisance. Premenstrual syndrome can be very distracting from performance and overall fueling, and many of the related symptoms can be ...
A guide to Gymnast Performance Nutrition
It’s one thing to tell you “how” to fuel your performance in the gym. I’ve got tons of free resources for you on this (Instagram posts, blogs) and paid content (premium 1:1 coaching for high level gymnasts or my course The Balanced Gymnast Course for a really comprehensive education—launching again ...
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 Body: Navigating Weight and Body Shape Concerns
Gymnastics is an aesthetic sport, defined as “concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty”. This can be problematic as our appreciation for body diversity within the sport of gymnastics is still not where it should be, with false assumptions that “lighter girls fly higher” still held fast in ...
What does food freedom look like for the high level gymnast?
What does food freedom look like?Food freedom is the ability to eat whatever, whenever, wherever.Food freedom is NOT the absence of eating for health.A lot of gymnasts are afraid that if they allow themselves to have “sugar” or “carbs” or something “fried” that they’ll get “all the inflammation”, ...
Help! My gymnast won’t stop eating sugar.
If I had a dollar for every time a parent tells me their gymnast’s number one nutrition struggle was “eating too much sugar”, I’d be rich! Just kidding. But really... Gymnastics is a sport where misguided advice like “create a culture of clean eating” and endless, unfoundedfood rules like “no ...
Food rules for gymnasts: Too good to be true?
How many of you have heard things like “don’t eat egg yolks”, “eat clean”, “don’t eat sugar”, or other “food rules” that are massive, sweeping claims? All of us. These “claims” are all over social media, print magazines, news segments, and frequently come from the mouths of “nutrition pros” like ...
