Sports Nutrition Tips For Promoting Healthy Bones By TrueSport   Kids who participate in youth sports achieve greater peak bone mineral density in their 20s than kids who watch from the bleachers, but only with adequate nutritional support. In some extreme cases, poor dietary choices coupled with high intensity exercise can reduce bone mineral density instead of increasing it! To ensure you are promoting optimal bone health in your youth sport athlete, follow the recommendations below.   Continue

What the Winter Olympics can Teach us about Swimming By Mike Gustafson,Contributor   Ah, the Winter Olympics: Frozen water, frozen humans, and two weeks of intense, live-by-the-blade-of-a-figure-skate competition. Also known as (outside of the Summer Olympics) the best two weeks in sports.   While there’s no swimming in the Winter Olympics (arctic water racing, I.O.C.?) there are plenty of lessons swimmers can learn by watching our ice-bound Olympic sport brethren.   Here are a few things we water-logged swimmers can learn from watching the Winter Olympics…   Continue

Final Psych Sheets, Corrected Warm-up Info & Timelines Released for FLAGS   Florida Swimming and the Host Club (YCF) have released the Final Psych Sheet, a Corrected version of the Assigned Warm-up Sheet and Estimated Timelines for this week's Florida Swimming Age Group Championships, in Orlando.   Click Here   to go to our Event Page for all this information and more.  

Assigned Warm-up for FLAGS Meet Released   Florida Swimming has released the Assigned Warm-up Schedules for this week's Florida Age Group Championships (FLAGS), in Orlando.  Click Here  to go to the Event Page and download the Warm-up Schedules.  If you have any questions, See Coach Randy.  

FLAGS Psych Sheets Available   The 2018 Florida Swimming Age Group Championship Psych Sheets are now available for download along with a lot more informtation on this week's Championship Meet, in Orlando.  Be sure to go to the Event Page and get all the information.   Click Here to go to our Event Page  

2018 FLAGS Information for Coaches, Officials & Teams   GENERAL INFORMATION Please be aware that a complete and updated meet packet has been posted on the Florida Swimming website. There have been a few changes and updates since the general meet information was posted last Fall, so please refer to the new document for all of your meet information. A summary of essential updates, along with some new FYI’s for coaches, officials and teams, are listed below: ·  All morning preliminary sessions begin at 9:00am, (and NOT 9:30am as posted...

USADA Update   Article: Is protein the primary fuel for working muscles?    The answer   may surprise you!   Supplements: Supplement411   helps keep you on top of the news when it comes to dietary #supplements.   Resources: New to #antidoping? Learn how to use Global DRO  to check the prohibited status of specific medications

10 Reasons to Love the 200 Butterfly By Mike Gustafson//Contributor     Every swim event tells a story: Some tell a story of flash-and-dash. Others tell a story of pacing and strategy.   And, if every story is a love story, as the saying goes, then every length of the 200 butterfly is an epic saga of tragic, painful, and ultimately triumphant adventure. Each length of the 200 butterfly tells a story-within-a-story, with its own beginning, middle, and end. Some stories begin with smooth waters, calm seas, and a successful voyage....

Could Vitamin Deficiencies be Ruining Your Workout   You know not eating well or logging enough sleep can hurt your workout, but there might be something else slowing you down: A new study in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition found that when healthy, active, females supplemented with a specific vitamin and mineral formula for one month, they shaved about one minute off their 3-mile run, were able to bike farther in 25 minutes, and covered more steps in a 90-second time trial.     Read More

Simple Strategies to Change Your Eating Habits   When looking at improving performance we all know that nutrition is extremely important, but it is a huge topic. Information and opinions about nutrition can often be controversial and polarizing. So where do you start? “It comes down to simple answers,” says Dr. Greg Wells. “Anytime you get away from simplicity you know that something is wrong with the information.” Dr. Wells has a Ph.D. in Exercise and Respiratory Physiology from the University of Toronto. He is also an Associate Professor in the...