Hi ! My name is Lisa and my daughter Samantha is 13 and joined a swim team this year. She was doing amazing and had moved up to the main level but then hurt her wrist and has been out for 3 months. We are back for the last few weeks and I am baffled by what is going on when we come home from practice. Sam gets home from school at 3 and has swim practice from 5-7. She comes home from school starving and has a whole wheat bagel with a banana and a cheese stick. I am afraid to give her dinner because I was told she could throw up. We come from the world of competition dance where all you do is eat eat and eat. When we come home at 7:00 after practice she is so hungry but then she sits down and says she can't eat. She almost feels very gassy and like she could throw up.
Is this normal? She has no eating issues any other time so I have to believe it stems from the swimming. The practice is an intense non- stop 2 hours. I don't know what to do. I am hoping someone will be kind enough to guide me.
I could have written your post. I started with an age group team 3 years ago, practicing 6-8 at night. I couldn't eat before for the same reasons and when I got home, I was starving and yet nauseous and couldn't eat. To top it off, if I didn't eat enough, I would wake up with a migraine. I finally realized that my body just can't do intense workouts that late in the day. I now only swim in the mornings and if I go to the afternoon workout, it's for dryland only.
I hope you can find a solution. Sounds like electrolytes would help. Good luck and let her know she is not alone.
I could have written your post. I started with an age group team 3 years ago, practicing 6-8 at night. I couldn't eat before for the same reasons and when I got home, I was starving and yet nauseous and couldn't eat. To top it off, if I didn't eat enough, I would wake up with a migraine. I finally realized that my body just can't do intense workouts that late in the day. I now only swim in the mornings and if I go to the afternoon workout, it's for dryland only.
I hope you can find a solution. Sounds like electrolytes would help. Good luck and let her know she is not alone.
