What Youth Sport Parents Need to Know About Muscle Cramps Muscle cramps affect athletes of all ages, sizes, shapes, and experience levels, yet the exact cause of muscle cramps is still not fully understood. In the past decade, sports science has revealed information that challenges long-held beliefs and offers new hope for kids who…
Tips for Fueling Vegetarian Teen Athletes Being a vegetarian might seem at odds with also being a competitive athlete, but it’s becoming far more common, even at sports’ highest levels. Martina Navratilova, one of the best tennis players of all-time, credits a plant-based diet as the reason she was able to win majors into her…
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…
5 Reasons to Keep “Fat Burner” Supplements Away from Young Athletes Kids, teens, and adults are usually bombarded with media messages about weight loss at the beginning of the new year. Many young athletes face a double helping of this pressure because weight loss and/or fat loss is often touted as a path to improved…
Over Snacked: Fixing the Snacking Epidemic in Youth Sports By TrueSport A healthy relationship with food is one of the many things parents are supposed to help children develop. We want them to choose fresh before packaged, fruit before fruit-flavored, and vegetables before they get fried. But beyond the foods themselves, the times and reasons…