Are You Struggling With Willpower or Are You Just Hungry?
As a gymnast, I know you try to eat healthy and fuel your body. No matter what you are doing, you know that eating healthy is key to your pe
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Kerry Bair, RD, LDN, MPH
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Kerry Bair
- Nov 7, 2021
- 4 min
5 Reasons Why You Wont Compete Your Best Under-Fueled This Season
As a high-level gymnast, competition season is easily the most intense time of your year. You are training more: More high-level skills. Mor
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Kerry Bair
- Oct 24, 2021
- 5 min
Halloween, Candy, and High-Level Gymnasts
Halloween is such a fun holiday! I remember as a young gymnast getting the night off of practice and just getting to spend time with my frie
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Kerry Bair
- Oct 17, 2021
- 4 min
4 Ways To Start Preparing for Meet Day NOW
Meet season is only a few short weeks away! In the gym, you're working hard to get ready. You're dialing in those landings. You're perfectin
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Kerry Bair
- Oct 3, 2021
- 8 min
How Much Protein Should A Gymnast Really Eat?
As a gymnast, you’ve probably heard that protein is an important part of an athlete’s diet. While this is true, many athletes aren’t familia
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Lauren Puscheck
- Sep 26, 2021
- 7 min
Fall into Autumn Foods!
Fall is here, which means so are of your favorite fall flavors - the biggest being pumpkin and apple!! I don't know about anyone else but I
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Lauren Puscheck
- Sep 19, 2021
- 6 min
5 Ways Your Body Is Telling You To Eat More
Many people aren't great at picking up on and listening to the signals their bodies send them...Society tells us that we can't trust our bod
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Lauren Puscheck
- Sep 12, 2021
- 4 min
4 External Reasons You Need To Eat More (And How To Recognize Them)
The school year is in full swing for most gymnasts, which means there have been a lot of changes in your life this past month...
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Lauren Puscheck
- Sep 5, 2021
- 6 min
5 Ways to Train Your Best Throughout Pre-Season (and Set Yourself Up for a Successful Season)
The start of the school year also means the end of summer training and the start of pre-season for gymnasts - time to get serious! Competiti
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Lauren Puscheck
- Aug 29, 2021
- 6 min
Recipes to Help You Celebrate The End of Summer
Need some recipe ideas that will help you fuel into the school year while also incorporating fall themes and produce? Here's some inspiratio
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Lauren Puscheck
- Aug 22, 2021
- 5 min
5 Ways to Meet Your Fueling Goals During the School Day
For most gymnasts, back-to-school is here (and for many of you, in person classes are starting up again for the first time in a year and a h
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Kerry Bair
- Aug 15, 2021
- 1 min
Building Nutrition Habits for a Healthy Gymnastics Foundation - Better Late Gymnastics Podcast
Recently I was featured on an episode of the The Better Late Gymnastics Podcast!
We talked all about nutrition specifically for gymnasts, h
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Lauren Puscheck
- Aug 15, 2021
- 5 min
4 Ways to Make Fueling On-The-Go Easier
Gymnasts, being busy and constantly on the go are not reasons to skip meals and snacks. You'll miss the mark on fueling properly to give you
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Lauren Puscheck
- Aug 8, 2021
- 4 min
The Balancing Act of a Gymnast
Now, the upcoming school year is upon us... This means a change back to your fall practice schedule, (and a change in focus to get ready for
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Lauren Puscheck
- Aug 1, 2021
- 5 min
6 Tips to Feel Confident Heading into Your School Year Schedule
Change can be challenging to deal with in any aspect of life and a change in your practices and fueling schedule can certainly be a daunting
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Lauren Puscheck
- Jul 25, 2021
- 6 min
5 Ways to Train for Your Gymnastics Goals Like an Olympian
It's time!! The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games are here! While most people only pay attention to gymnastics during the Olympics, us in the gymnast
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Lauren Puscheck
- Jul 18, 2021
- 3 min
How To Fuel A Young Gymnast
Most parents I talk to have no idea what to feed their young gymnast (or for that matter), how to talk to their young child about nutrition.
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Lauren Puscheck
- Jul 11, 2021
- 4 min
4 Reasons You Crave Sugar (And What To Do About It)
Carbohydrates (especially sugar) are extremely stigmatized (and sometimes even demonized), not just in the gymnastics community, but by our
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Lauren Puscheck
- Jul 2, 2021
- 7 min
Festive 4th of July Recipes!
Need some delicious ideas to bring to your 4th of July party? Here are some festive and summer-y recipes that everyone will enjoy!
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Lauren Puscheck
- Jun 26, 2021
- 6 min
What It Takes to Be an Olympic Gymnast
Whether you want to make the Olympics or have your own big goals, every gymnast can train like an Olympian and take the same steps to reach
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