How do do you feed a competitive athlethe?

[Anonymous]

More complex carbs
Less sugar at breakfast, replace with complex carbs or eat the yolk of the eggs (unless there's high cholesterol)
No need for gluten-free unless there's celiac or something
More variety in proteins

[Anonymous]

My 14 year old nationally ranked gymnast trains 30 hours a week and eats a good breakfast and a good dinner and a bunch of random crap in between. Thinking you can engineer performance based on diet is complete nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 14 year old nationally ranked gymnast trains 30 hours a week and eats a good breakfast and a good dinner and a bunch of random crap in between. Thinking you can engineer performance based on diet is complete nonsense.

This is BS.

If you don't have high fat and protein in their diet they will get injuries.

[Anonymous]

Your 15-year-olds can't feed themselves? Your wife needs a job so she can stop helicoptering around your kids. They'll never be independent people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your 15-year-olds can't feed themselves? Your wife needs a job so she can stop helicoptering around your kids. They'll never be independent people.

Yeah this is the height of helicopter sports parenting. Homeschooled kids and a mom whose full time gig is to feed them "organic" stuff which isn't even that great for them.

[Anonymous]

No protein until dinner???

[Anonymous]

My 16 year old ds eats 7000 calories a day. Meat, chicken, eggs, bagels, pasta, rice and lots of veggies. He makes himself paninis, pizza, smoothies, etc between meals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your 15-year-olds can't feed themselves? Your wife needs a job so she can stop helicoptering around your kids. They'll never be independent people.

Yeah this is the height of helicopter sports parenting. Homeschooled kids and a mom whose full time gig is to feed them "organic" stuff which isn't even that great for them.

I wish I had a mother of the OP. If they can afford organic food, kudos to them. I wish I can afford organic all the times. Your comments about "They'll never be independent people" and ""organic" stuff which isn't even that great for them" are completely baseless, IMHO.

You’re entitled to your own opinions. You’re not entitled to your own facts

[Anonymous]

Gymnast. Eats whatever she wants.

[Anonymous]

This is not realistic. My son played Ice Hockey in both HS and College. College was 3 practices,2 -3 games per week, Dryland conditioning and lifting. He is a smart eater but not obsessive and tends to loose weight easily, high metabolism. Supplemented meals with protein bars and shakes. Shakes would be as much as 600 cals and 60G protein after lifting to 300 Cals and 300 G protein at 11pm after practice. He stayed around 190-195Lb at 6'0 and was happy. Plenty of pizza and bear as well.

Post college he considered professional crossfit but found it was too many hours and hard to have a career as well. Probably still spends too much time in gym as he deadlifts 400Lbs,

Cooking you kids meals is not helping them with life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your 15-year-olds can't feed themselves? Your wife needs a job so she can stop helicoptering around your kids. They'll never be independent people.

Yeah this is the height of helicopter sports parenting. Homeschooled kids and a mom whose full time gig is to feed them "organic" stuff which isn't even that great for them.

I wish I had a mother of the OP. If they can afford organic food, kudos to them. I wish I can afford organic all the times. Your comments about "They'll never be independent people" and ""organic" stuff which isn't even that great for them" are completely baseless, IMHO.

You’re entitled to your own opinions. You’re not entitled to your own facts

Hahaha

[Anonymous]

This seems like a lot of sugar and not enough protein. Put the egg yolks back in and maybe add a protein supplement to the shakes, or some healthy fats instead of juice and honey which as someone mentioned are just sugar despite being organic?

[Anonymous]

Mostly McDonald's, Chick Fil A and Wendy's. And a lot of fruit candy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mostly McDonald's, Chick Fil A and Wendy's. And a lot of fruit candy.

And that equals heart diease and obesity. Nice works

[Anonymous]

Your wife feeds them the exact same thing EVERY day?