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Busting 3 Nutrition Myths for Swimmers
You may have seen trends on TikTok, Instagram, or other social media platforms: “Eat this not that to swim better.” “This is what I did to swim fast.” Social media is saturated with influencers and many people look to them for their opinions. But opinions aren’t the best place to start when you’re searching for evidence-based facts. Here are three common nutrition myths and the science-backed facts that refute them.
21 Food and Nutrition Resolutions for 2021
New Year’s resolutions about healthier eating are among the most common. Here are 21 resolutions to help you stay healthy and enjoy your food all year.
How to Create an Easy Nutrition Plan, Part 2
Here are some ways to make meals with less effort.
How to Create an Easy Nutrition Plan, Part 1
With just a few simple tips, you’ll be pulling together homemade meals without much effort.
Five Nutrition Secrets to Improving Your Fitness
Adequate recovery is essential to not only everyday health but also to improve athletic performance. After a training session or event, you should replenish all the things that were lost during activity: glycogen, fluid, and electrolytes. You also want to build and repair lean tissue, make new red blood cells, and promote healthy immune function.
U.S. Masters Swimming Partners with INFINIT Nutrition
Cincinnati, Ohio and Sarasota, Fla., March 21, 2016—INFINIT Nutrition and U.S. Masters Swimming announce a unique partnership that includes the creation of a custom line of sports drinks formulated specifically to meet the needs of Masters swimmers.
Nutrition and Sleep Are Important for Top Performance
For busy Masters swimmers who want to perform at their best, both in the water and out, two components of training are critically important: nutrition and sleep.
Timing is Everything, Nutrition Edition
There are many different ways to be successful in your swim training, and what and when you eat contributes to that success. When it comes to maximizing the effectiveness of your nutrition, it’s often a matter of timing.
Open Water 101: Nutrition on Long Swims
The long-held belief that it’s unsafe for anyone to swim within 30 minutes of eating is just plain incorrect. Marathon swimmers eat while treading water, gulping their food down and heading off towards the far shore in as few as 5 seconds, usually with little problem digesting and no threat of drowning. So much for that old wives’ tale!
Post-Workout Nutrition and Bone Density
These two shake recipes comply with guidelines recommended by Westcott and others, 2011, which you can read about in your January-February 2013 issue of SWIMMER, in “The Healthy Swimmer,” on page 13.
Nutrition, Simply
Nutrition. There may not be another topic about which so many swimmers are more confused. Yet the best practices for nutrition aren’t so much about knowing the best practices, but rather following through and implementing those best practices. And for many people, the former is much easier than the latter.
Pre-Race Nutrition
You’ve spent a lot of hours in the pool and in the gym, preparing for your important, soon-to-be-happening competition. You’re fit, you’re ready, you’re psyched, and now you’re anxiously waiting for the days prior to the meet to pass (why do they always take so long?!). The questions you’re probably asking are, “What should I do in the days leading up to the race? Perhaps more importantly, what should I do on race morning so that I can achieve the best results possible?” Here are a few time-proven tips that we’re sure will help you.
Nutrition Tips for Success in Swim Workouts & Races
As a competitive swimmer, you want to get the most out of every workout and race, so you can enjoy the best possible results come race day. Although the subject of proper fueling encompasses a number of factors, here are three that we believe are of the utmost importance. Adopt these in your training and racing, and we have no doubt you’ll experience higher quality workouts and better race results.
How to Eat Well While You're on the Road
With a little planning and preparation, you can maintain your athletic performance while you’re away.
How to Fuel Your Open Water Swim
An open water swim can be daunting but also exhilarating, fulfilling, and fun. To be a successful open water swimmer you must have a nutrition plan. Your nutrition plan should include fuel and hydration supplementation for both your training sessions and for your open water event.
The Dos and Don’ts of Your Taper Diet
Eating during a taper means making slight changes, so if you’re thinking of doing anything drastic, don’t. Leave any radical changes for the beginning of the training season, not at the end or before any big meets. As we approach the 2017 U.S. Masters Swimming Summer National Championship on Aug. 2-6, embrace the taper.
Don’t Let Resolutions Jeopardize Your Training
At the beginning of every year we’re bombarded with media and opinions telling us to set new goals, be more mindful, and implement behavior changes for what appears to be our own good. As an athlete, you strive to be your best, improve, and get to the next level however possible; so giving the latest and greatest trend a chance is worth it, right? Perhaps not.
Fuel Your Sleep
Sleep is the most critical time of every 24-hour day. While the body is at rest, it’s best prepared to focus solely on growth, recovery, repair, and rejuvenation. Depending on when you eat, when you work out, and when you go to bed, even a nutritious dinner may not meet the demand to replenish nutrients depleted during the day’s work and sport—nutrients needed for the body to recover and repair effectively for the entire 10 to 12 hour period between dinner and the following morning’s breakfast.
Read Those Labels!
Below is a list of some of the more common ingredients you may encounter when reading sports nutrition product labels. See the main article, “Read Those Labels” published in the July/August 2014 issue of SWIMMER magazine for more information about what to look for when choosing nutritional products to fuel your swimming.
U.S. Masters Swimming partners with P2Life
P2Life has signed on as a multiyear partner and sponsor of U.S. Masters Swimming, the national governing body for adult swimming in the United States. USMS clubs and Masters coaches will be able to raise money for their clubs by purchasing P2Life’s products through customized web portals.
