“Healthy foods offer nutrients that supply the body with energy. A good diet helps improve energy levels for training, concentration and recovery rates after hard workouts. It can profoundly impact swimming performance and general well-being.”
Feed that body right!
One of the building blocks of quality training is good nutrition. Every swimmer and parent needs to be aware of the following two points:
Food does NOT make a swimmer swim fast - Training makes a swimmer faster.
Quality training makes a swimmer faster - A vital part of quality training is good nutrition!
Believe it or not, swimmers don't get fast during practice. In practice they might see times improving, but adaptation to training (i.e. getting faster) actually occurs while the body is at rest. Workout is the stimulus that causes this to happen.
Workouts are hard! They’re supposed to be. They’re designed to tell the body, “This is hard work for me…you better do something to enable me to do it again later.” And the body actually responds by becoming more efficient – aerobically and anaerobically. During its time off, the body WILL adapt, but only if given the proper fuels.
Healthy foods offer nutrients that supply the body with energy. A good diet helps improve energy levels for training, concentration and recovery rates after hard workouts. It can profoundly impact swimming performance and general well-being.
Every body is individual, and each training level requires different nutrition stratergies - but the basics still apply... you are what you eat! Test your nutrition IQ!
