Maintain Your Dancer’s Energy Level

Serious dancers are athletes challenged to have high levels of energy for prolonged periods of time.

Dancers are often over-scheduled, have stressful lives, and suffer from a lack of quality sleep and poor eating habits. These factors lower energy levels.

Fatigue breaks us down physically and emotionally, and it wreaks havoc on the immune system.

All of these factors make dancers—indeed anyone—more susceptible to illness, depression, and even chronic conditions, especially the inflammation that leads to injuries.

There a many things you can do to help your dancer avoid such problems.

Eat Predominantly Nutrient-Dense Foods

On our previous blogpost 'New Years Resolution for dancers: Eat better' , we covered off the importance of nutrition for dancers.

The body converts food to energy and this requires an abundance of vitamins and minerals. Every cell in our body can unlock its energy potential with the proper fuel from food.

If your don't get enough nutrients from foods, you will suffer from sub-optimal cellular energy metabolism, making you feel tired and sluggish.

The best way to combat this is to choose foods that have a lot of nutrition per calorie. Nutrient-dense foods are high in the antioxidants needed to protect cells. These include vegetables, beans, nuts, seeds, fruits, whole grains, and lean animal proteins.

A lack of any one nutrient over time will affect your ability to dance.

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Use Nutritional Supplements

Even if you eat well, it is nearly impossible to get all the vitamins and minerals you need from your food.
Therefore, it is critical to take High Quality antioxidants and vitamin/mineral supplements.

Supplements are not created equally. Choose one made:

• With high-quality manufacturing from a science-based company.
• By a company that manufactures their own products in their own manufacturing facilities where they control the entire process, from raw ingredient to finished supplement.
• From a company that voluntarily has a facility that is certified to be in compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) identical to pharmaceutical GMP and meets the requirements set forth by NSF International,
  and is a registered U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Drug Establishment.

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CLE Holistic Health

CLE Holistic Health is based in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. All of their natural health products are clinically tested and licensed by Health Canada. In addition, all of the proprietary formulation ingredients are grown on our plots of land and they control the entire process from farming, harvesting, and encapsulation.

Drink for energy

An “energy drink” which uses green tea and supplementation can effectively be used by athletes. 

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They understand how difficult it can be to incorporate the necessary nutrients into your daily life, which is why life is all about Balance.
They don’t want to change your life, we just want to make it effortless. By micro-focusing on the daily nutrition of individuals,
they can bring about long term behavioral changes that will have an impact on connected relationships, families, communities, and society as a whole.
Balance features 15 superfoods and 1/2 a day's fruits and veggies in one 2 ounce shot. 

MUDWTR™ is a coffee alternative consisting of organic ingredients lauded by cultures old and young for their health and performance benefits. With 1/7th the caffeine of coffee, mud gives you natural energy, focus and more without the jitters and crash.

Zaca	Green Roads

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Get enough sleep

Adequate rest is necessary for the body to recharge and repair.

Eight hours of sleep continues to be the suggested minimum. Take your son’s need for sleep seriously.

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Do you want to become an expert on nutrition? Please see below a list of our recommended online courses:

• The healthy dancer: https://pointenutrition.com/dancers/
• Nutrition for Dancers | Dietary Supplements: https://dancenutrition.com
• To The Pointe Nutrition: https://pointenutrition.com/

References

Dance Nutrition: https://dancenutrition.com

My son can dance: https://mysoncandance.net/2015/03/how-to-maintain-your-dancers-energy-level/

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