Fueling for Performance: How proper timing of meals affects both sport and academic performance Nutrition is critical for both academic and sports performance. A diet that is adequate in carbohydrate, protein, healthy fat, vitamins, minerals, and fluid is the foundation of day-to-day eating for overall health. As important as what to eat, though, is when a student-athlete eats. The right fuel at the right time influences how well they feel, learn, perform and recover. Student-athletes need to fuel early and often in order to meet their daily energy needs. Studies...

30 HEALTHY BREAKFAST SNACKS FOR MORNINGS ON THE RUN Health Posted by Kate Morin on August 31, 2012 SHARES 147711 Photo by Perry Santanachote When it comes to breakfast, the options are endless. Pancakes or waffles? Bacon and eggs? Muffin, followed by a pastry? So why limit chowing down on delicious breakfast foods to the morning hours? Here are 30 healthier snack options to keep filling those breakfast food cravings all month long. BETTER BREAKFAST SNACKS 1. Pumpkin and Granola Parfait: This one’s perfect to try out as fall sets...

Focus on effort, not the outcome: Sports psychologist As a former provincial and recreational sports coach and a soccer parent, Dr. Peter Crocker knows a thing or two about the influence adults can have on young athletes. ALAN CAMPBELL - RICHMOND NEWS THURSDAY, MAY 30 2013 20:00:00 -04:00 Dr. Peter Crocker As a former provincial and recreational sports coach and a soccer parent, Dr. Peter Crocker knows a thing or two about the influence adults can have on young athletes. And being a professor of kinesiology and associate member of...

21 TOP LAWS OF SWIMMING By Jerry Heidenreich 1. Three of the most important components of swimming are: technique,technique, technique. 2. Strive for optimum, not maximum, performance. 3. Learn to balance, align, and stabilize your body first. Everything else will become easier. 4. Seek the path of least resistance. 5. Find the path of most resistance. 6. To become effortless requires great effort. 7. Listen to the water, feel the water, be one with the water. Swim quietly. 8. The mind leads the body. 9. The harder you work, the...

PERFECT PRACTICE: GETTING THE MOST OF YOUR TRAINING 1 1 6/4/2013 BY DR. ALAN GOLDBERG//SPORT PSYCHOLOGIST, COMPETITIVEDGE.COM RACES ARE WON AND LOST, LONG BEFORE YOUR MEETS Most serious swimmers put in the same amount of time training each and every week. Why is it that only a select few of these athletes will end up getting more out of their practices, and as a result, improve faster and go further in the sport than the majority of their teammates? The answer has to do with HOW they practice. IT'S THE...

Guest editorial by Olivier Poirier-Leroy PHOENIX, Arizona, December 5. WHY do some swimmers have a hard time achieving success while other swimmers seem to effortlessly enjoy wild and never-ending success? Generally the first two answers tabled are talent and genetics. However, possessing these two attributes alone will not constitute an elite swimmer. Sure, they will always get by for a few years on these two characteristics, but it isn't long before that isn't enough. And before long, these promising young athletes are reflected upon as "flashes in the pan." Those...

Getting into College 101 · Freshman/Sophomore Year: What you should be thinking/doing · Set up academics · Eligible for AP or IB programs? Where do most graduates go? · Get to know your counselor, and let them know your goals (don’t worry they can change) · PSAT or the ACT equivalent Consider SAT/Act Prep classes (rule of thumb it is worth 100 pts on the SAT) · Let your coaches know your goals/map out strategy Start thinking about colleges, and programs of interest · Whenever possible, take an unofficial visit....

http://www.facebook.com/NrgSwimming In an effort to get information to families as fast as possible, and in as many ways a possible, NRG has added facebook to its resources of communication. This adds to our email blasts and twitter. Check it out! Tag photos! join in the discussion!

LESSONS FROM LEGENDS: Certainty Of Outcome History proves that the person that can best ensure “Certainty Of Outcome” can have the world at their feet. Even Popes can submit to their requests. Swimmers and their coaches long for reaching a level of precise preparation that reduces chance and, as much as humanly possible, guarantees success. We see examples of people who are compensated handsomely by ensuring “Certainly of Outcome” in many industries. Producers of movies pay tens of millions of dollars to actors that best deliver ticket sales at the...

NRG Parents, I was recently sent this from a friend involved in baseball, and felt that it was something I should share with all of you. While it is not swimming, I feel much of the content applies to our sport as well. Much of what you will read in this letter, applies to my experience as a swimmer on NRG Swimming, my beliefs in coaching, and exactly what I would like to see this program continue to be. Success requires that the Coach, Athlete, and Parent all work as...