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3 Highly Recommended Pre-Race Meals for Swimmers

It's finally here and you've spent hours preparing, working on your technique, and fine-tuning your nutrition plan to be at your best. What you eat right before the race is just as important, so we...

3 Big Eating Mistakes Swimmers Make on Race Day

This is the day you've been preparing for all season long. You've spent hours perfecting your technique, repeated drills with your coach, and put in extra hours of practice sessions to ensure that ...

What to Pack in Your Child's Lunch for Swim Success

One of the most important parts of your child's success as a swimmer is their nutrition and what they are eating on a daily basis. While eating healthy meals as a family is ideal, the reality is th...

How To Read a Nutrition Label

One scan of a nutrition label and it's enough to confuse anyone that's not a registered dietitian. With ingredients too hard to pronounce, odd measurements, and recommended percentages, it can make...

Nutrition for Teenage Swimmers: How Much Protein is Right?

In addition to the significant amounts of food they require for training, adolescent swimmers have higher energy and nutrient needs than mature swimmers. Adolescents are still growing and developin...

Nutrition for Youth & Teenage Swimmers

All athletes strive to be at the top of their game, and of course, nutrition is a big part of that athletic success. But what are the unique needs of young swimmers? Do their needs change as they d...

Is Your Swimming Club Getting Proper Nutrition?

As a swimming coach, your goal is to produce the best team and have each athlete live up to their potential. Increasing athletic performance, fostering good health, improving body composition, and ...

How Sugar Affects Your Training and Performance

Sugar is one of those food items that we know generally isn't good for us, but how do swimmers manage their intake when this ingredient seems to show up unsuspectingly in many things that we eat an...

Diet Makes a Difference: 3 Nutrition Secrets For Top Performance

Some athletes don't consider nutrition as a part of training, but it is one of the most important building blocks in your swim training and can greatly impact your performance. Paying attention to ...

Snacks for Swimmers: Timing is Important Outside of the Pool, Too

Snacks get a bad rap since they’re often synonymous with candy and chips. But don’t let this misnomer fool you; snacks are a critical part of a swimmer’s training before, during, and after race day...