Nutrition and Blood Chemistry for Gymnastics in Relation to Injury Treatment, Prevention, and Recovery

Course overview

The sport of Gymnastics is easily one of the most demanding athletic commitments an athlete can make. The nutrition and health demands are complicated due to age, growth cycle status, fitness demands for performance, practice hour quantity, and an equal stress of anaerobic, aerobic, and power requirements. Fueling the body for all aspects of the practice, day, and training cycle can directly impact the level of success. Food, nutrition value, hydration, supplements, macro levels, recovery supplements all play a part in performance as well as fatigue. We will discuss the physiology behind performance, current concepts in the efficiency of recovery, eating habits, energy deficiency, as well as bloodwork and the connection to performance.