As you know nutrition is a vital key to swimmer’s performance in practice and at meets.  Parents please talk to your athlete about nutrition and help guide them to make wise food choices each day (and we know our teachers will be happy and so will you as you will have a happier, more energetic, more focused child if they have good nutrition).  It will help them for life! 

Click here for a great article on nutritional advice for swimmers!

USA Swimming’s Parent page has a lot of useful information, including the nutrition tracker and other useful articles on nutrition! 

Every swimmer and parent should review the nutrition page on USA Swimming which articles on eating disorders, fueling for meets, and other great tools such as a nutrition tracker.