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Are you doing anything specific with regard to feeding your gymnast?
I was wondering if you encourage them to eat differently on training and non-training days. For those of us who have a long travel time to get home after training sessions, how do you handle feeding them - a meal in the car, or a snack to hold them until you get home?
Have you ever looked at how many grams of protein, carbs etc that they are eating on a daily basis or do you just supply each meal with some of all the food groups?
I am just a bit concerned about the training of such young bodies and how much they should be eating in order to make sure that all the internal organs/bones (and other stuff that you cant see) have enough nutrition to develop correctly. There does not seem much on the internet. If you have any information, could you please let me know? Do your gyms/coaches give you any information or literature when you join?
JBS posted an article from Gatorade in Feb 2006 (dont know how to link to it, sorry) but I have not seen anything else on this subject.
I was wondering if you encourage them to eat differently on training and non-training days. For those of us who have a long travel time to get home after training sessions, how do you handle feeding them - a meal in the car, or a snack to hold them until you get home?
Have you ever looked at how many grams of protein, carbs etc that they are eating on a daily basis or do you just supply each meal with some of all the food groups?
I am just a bit concerned about the training of such young bodies and how much they should be eating in order to make sure that all the internal organs/bones (and other stuff that you cant see) have enough nutrition to develop correctly. There does not seem much on the internet. If you have any information, could you please let me know? Do your gyms/coaches give you any information or literature when you join?
JBS posted an article from Gatorade in Feb 2006 (dont know how to link to it, sorry) but I have not seen anything else on this subject.