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By Jo Ann Schneider Farris, About.com Guide to Figure Skating

Figure Skaters Must Eat a Healthy and Balanced Diet

Monday July 6, 2009
Figure Skaters Need to Eat Right
One day, long ago, when I was a very young competitive figure skater, my coach asked me to pay close attention to what I ate each day. Eating right should begin when ice skaters are young. Yes, figure skaters of all ages must eat a healthy and balanced diet. I've put together a suggested meal plan for figure skaters.

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Are you a figure skater? What do you eat during the day?


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July 14, 2009 at 9:28 pm
(1) Michael says:

Your suggested meal plan for skaters is excellent. In fact, it is a great plan for everyone.
If only skaters could be made to understand that this is all that they have to do. After Jenny Kirk’s recent relevations, it is essential that coaches take this approach too. They should be concentrating on encouraging skaters to eat properly rather than nonsense like weighing them all the time.

The trouble is the sponsored links I am seeing are all about losing weight. It is this kind of thing that leads so many people to chase dangerous goals.

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