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Category: Sports - Swimming - Nutrition
for swimmers
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One of the
building blocks of quality training is good nutrition. Every swimmer
and parent needs to be aware of the following two points:
1. Food does
NOT make a swimmer swim fast.
That’s right. Food does not make him swim fast. What does make
him swim fast? Training. Training makes him swim fast.
2. QUALITY
training makes you swim fast.
A vital part of quality training is good nutrition!
Believe it or not, your swimmer doesn't get fast during practice. In
practice she might see her times improving, but her adaptation
to training (i.e. getting faster) actually occurs while her 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.
A balanced diet will
help fuel swimmers for training and competition.
source: adapted
from usaswimming.org
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