4 Reasons You Crave Sugar
Even if you feel like you include a fair amount of carbohydrate foods in your diet, you could still be craving sugar most of the time. There
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Kerry Bair
- Sep 24
- 6 min
5 Ways Your Body Is Telling You That You Need To Eat More
If you're not providing your body with enough energy to meet its needs, it will tell you!! Try looking out for some of these signs and revis
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Jordan Thaler
- Aug 26
- 9 min
6 Ways to Stay Fueled When Headed Back To School
Ready or not, the new school year is here! For many gymnasts, moving back to a school year schedule can bring many new stressors surrounding
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Jordan Thaler
- Aug 20
- 12 min
Easy Dinner Recipes For Gymnasts
The recipes shared below are ones that you can meal prep, dinners that you can bring in the car, dinner ideas for when you aren't feeling as
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Jordan Thaler
- Aug 13
- 5 min
Nutrition Myths and Gymnastics: Separating The Facts From Fiction
In our society, and especially in the sport of gymnastics, we are surrounded by so much false information regarding nutrition and (for so ma
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Jordan Thaler
- Aug 6
- 5 min
The Trouble With “Healthy Eating”
Nutrition is a powerful tool to help athletes improve their performance. So often the nutrition advice told to a gymnast sounds a lot like “
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Jordan Thaler
- Jul 27
- 6 min
Fueling The Vegetarian Gymnast
If you are (or have ever considered being) vegetarian, vegan, or a more plant based diet as a gymnast, this blog post is for you! This post
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Jordan Thaler
- Jun 9
- 6 min
Why Gymnasts Should Be Eating Breakfast (And 5 Ways To Start Eating If You Struggle To)
’m sure you’ve all heard the phrase: “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”. But what does that even mean??? Now that summer gym
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Kerry Bair
- Mar 23
- 5 min
The 3 Things You Need To Know About Fueling With An Athlete's Plate
As a a gymnast, have you ever struggled to, have enough energy to get through your day? Perform your best at practice or competitions?
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Kerry Bair
- Mar 16
- 7 min
Fresh Spring Recipes
Move over winter! Spring is officially here! And with that returns so many of our fresh and seasonal favorites, including greens, peas, aspa
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Kerry Bair
- Jan 16
- 5 min
The Link Between Mental Blocks and Under Fueling
One of the most frustrating things to deal with in gymnastics are mental blocks. Being terrified or forgetting how to do a skill that you kn
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Kerry Bair
- Nov 14, 2021
- 3 min
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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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
- May 23, 2021
- 4 min
3 Ways To Be More Flexible Around Food, Fuel Your Body, and Achieve Your Goals This Summer
Your competition season is over! Finally! Time to relax a bit. Ease up in the gym. Give your mind a break. If you're like so many gymnasts
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Kerry Bair
- Apr 18, 2021
- 5 min
The 3 Fueling Tips Every Gymnast Needs To Know
Gymnastics has a long and complicated history with food (healthy eating, disordered eating, body image, etc.). There are so many stereotypes
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Kerry Bair
- Mar 7, 2021
- 5 min
3 Reasons to NOT Count Calories (and the 3 things you should do instead)
No matter where I look, I feel like I'm being constantly bombarded with people talking about calories. And as a former gymnast, I know how
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Kerry Bair
- Feb 21, 2021
- 4 min
The Meet Isn't Over Until You Eat
Gymnasts are always asking me questions about what to eat before a meet. They want to feel their best on meet day They want to have the...
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Kerry Bair
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
The Gymnastics Growth Show With Nick Ruddock
Recently I was featured on an episode of the The Gymnastics Growth Show Podcast, hosted by incredible gymnastics coach, clinician, and leade
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Kerry Bair
- Feb 14, 2021
- 6 min
5 Reasons You're Always Hungry
As a gymnast, your body needs a lot of energy. Of course you need energy to keep up in training and to support your recovery. But that's...
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Kerry Bair
- Jan 1, 2021
- 1 min
Competition Season Fueling Challenge!
I'm not usually big on New Years Resolutions. Usually, they're vast and unrealistic, with no real plan on how we're going to accomplish th
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