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A Registered Dietitian’s Guide to Meal Prepping, Batch Cooking, and Gymnast Recipes for Back to School Season
Discover delicious and nutritious back to school recipes for gymnasts with meal prep and batch cooking tips. Fuel your body for success!

Athena Wong
Aug 30, 202410 min read
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Optimizing Gymnastics Nutrition: A Comprehensive Guide to Snacks for Enhanced Performance
Discover the ultimate guide to optimizing gymnastics nutrition with snacks for enhanced performance. Fuel your body with the right snacks!
Kerry Bair
Dec 8, 20237 min read
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4 Reasons Gymnasts Feel Addicted to Sugar (and what to do about it)
Many gymnasts crave sugar most of the time, and there are several reasons for this (and none of them include a lack of willpower...)
Kerry Bair
Oct 20, 20235 min read
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What Every Gymnast Needs To Know About Mid-Workout Snacks and Lunches
Depending on the age, level, and intensity of gymnastics, most gymnasts who's practices are 3 hours or longer will benefit from a performanc

Savannah Kooyman
Jun 8, 20235 min read
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6 Tips For Fueling Gymnasts For Travel
So many competitions these days require travel. Whether it’s a few hours in the car, a plane trip, or staying overnight in a hotel, this ca

Kerry Bair
Jan 14, 20234 min read
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What Every Gymnast Needs To Know About Snacks
It’s easy to forget how much snacks contribute to a gymnast’s fueling plan. A well fueled gymnast needs to be eating often! This means eatin

Kerry Bair
Nov 12, 20225 min read
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5 Nutrition Mistakes Gymnasts Make Before Working Out
As a Registered Dietitian for gymnasts, I see so many gymnasts making major mistakes! Mistakes that are actually hurting their performance (

Kerry Bair
Oct 15, 20227 min read
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Recipes to Fuel You For The End of Summer
Labor Day is here. Can you believe it is already the unofficial end of summer?! I know I can't! While you may be having one last cookout wi

Kerry Bair
Aug 29, 20227 min read
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The 4 Types of Snacks that Every Gymnast Needs To Know About
A gymnast requires A LOT of energy throughout the day to fuel their body. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are certainly very important (and are

Jordan Thaler
Jul 20, 20225 min read
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Navigating The 4 Types of Hunger
Hunger is the main way that your body signals you when you are low on energy or nutrients need food! Hunger can be an indicator on how well

Jordan Thaler
Jul 14, 20227 min read
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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

Kerry Bair
Jan 16, 20225 min read
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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

Lauren Puscheck
Sep 19, 20216 min read
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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

Lauren Puscheck
Sep 5, 20216 min read
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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...

Kerry Bair
Feb 14, 20216 min read
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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

Kerry Bair
Jan 1, 20211 min read
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The 3 Kinds of Snacks You Need To Know About As A Gymnast
As a gymnast, your body burns a lot of energy! More energy than you could comfortably fit into 3 meals a day. A well fueled gymnast needs to

Kerry Bair
Nov 8, 20203 min read
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The Secret to Amazing Energy All Day for Gymnasts
As a dietitian for gymnasts, I hear story after story from high-level gymnasts struggling with their energy. Waking up exhausted, even after

Kerry Bair
Oct 11, 20202 min read
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Kerry Bair, RD, LDN, MPH
The Gymnast RD
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