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Nutrition in Swimming

One of the foundations of quality swim training is GOOD NUTRITION. Given the proper fuels, the body will adapt the way training intended. The result: high quality workouts and optimal performance. Learning about nutrition can be fun and easy. Just click on any of the links to the left for information.

Here's to training hard and swimming fast!

Find a Nutritionist: Use the Sports Medicine Database
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Announcements & Featured Articles
Swimming and The Art of Recovery 5/4/2006
Top 30 Foods for Swimmers! 10/27/2006





Check out Nutrition Tracker!  Nutrient look-ups, daily diet analysis, recipes, menu builder, graphing, and more!  All users must be current members of USA Swimming.
How to use nutrition tracker

Download Nutrition Slides
Nutrition for 10K Open Water (with 5K and 7.5K Feeding Stations)
Fueling for Performance (CSCA Annual Mtg 2006)
Fueling for Open Water
Focus on Recovery (2006)
Fueling for Performance (WebEx Web Seminar Sep05)
Fueling for Performance (CSCA Annual Mtg 2005)
Fueling for Performance - Recovery Strategies for Training and Competition
Fueling for Performance (AZ Swimposium 2005)
Fueling for Performance (ASCA Nutrition School 2004)
Fueling for Performance (ASCA Nutrition School, 2003)
Download Food Guide Pyramids
Asian Diet Pyramid
Mediterranean Diet Pyramid
Native American Pyramid
NEW US Food Guide Pyramid
Sports Nutrition Pyramid
Traditional US FGP
Vegetarian Pyramid
 

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