Muscle Helps Boost Olympic Ice Skater’s Performance

The New York Times has a good article on Olympic ice skater Tanith Belbin and her issues with weight. The American skater focused on proper nutrition and lifting weights to improve her on-ice performance.

Belbin began reading books about nutrition and eating lunch at the rink. She learned to eat foods that would best sustain an athlete’s body.

She also began training harder off the ice, lifting weights, doing push-ups and participating in Karponosov’s boot camps, which involve hard-core skating drills to strengthen the legs.

Check it out on The New York Times.