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Nutrition

Fueling on the Go: Quick Nutrition Tips for Travel

Whether you're heading to a competition, going on vacation, or taking a long weekend away, travel doesn’t have to mean sacrificing your nutrition. With a little planning, athletes can stay on track, feel great, and even come back stronger. In this guide, we’ll break down travel nutrition for athletes, with practical tips to support performance, recovery, and consistency on the road.

Team WAG

Jul 21, 2025

1 min read

Fitness

The Benefits of Strength Training for Endurance Athletes

Many endurance athletes believe that training should only focus on cardio, but incorporating strength training can improve performance and give you an edge over your competition. Strength training for endurance athletes doesn’t have to be about bulking up but can help you build a stronger, more resilient body that can perform at its peak.

Alex Oskian

Mar 17, 2025

1 min read

Nutrition

Nutrition Tips for Friday Night Lights: Fueling Your 3-Week Functional Fitness Competition

For three weeks, your community gathers for a high-intensity functional fitness competition—a test of strength, endurance, and grit. While training is paramount, strategic nutrition is the unsung hero that can significantly impact your performance and recovery, turning those Friday night challenges into triumphs.

Ali Macy

Feb 3, 2025

1 min read

Lifestyle and Mindset

6 Effective Ways To Manage Stress

We live in a fast-paced, better-keep-up, stressed-out world. Stress is an almost unavoidable part of our lives. Some stress is definitely good—the kind that pushes you to reach a deadline or helps you reach peak performance during a competition.

Amy Cimo

May 27, 2024

1 min read

Videos

Post-Workout Nutrition Tips for the Crossfit Open

When you’re in the thick of an ongoing competition, you likely focus on what to eat before your workout. But what you eat after your workout is imperative for proper recovery and ensuring you’re ready to take on each weekly test

Team WAG

Feb 15, 2024

1 min read

Muscle Gain and Performance

Nutrition Tips for Your Next CrossFit Competition

Your nutrition choices directly impact your athletic performance. Here is what you need to know to properly fuel for a CrossFit or Functional Fitness competition.

Team WAG

Jan 24, 2024

1 min read

Muscle Gain and Performance

Eat to Compete: Competition Day Nutrition

Competition day is finally here. You’ve trained for months and maximized your recovery, and now it's time to step up and perform.

Team WAG

Jan 24, 2024

1 min read

Weight Loss

How to Make Weight for a Weightlifting Competition

Whether you compete in weightlifting, powerlifting, judo, boxing, or wrestling, many sports require you to have a specific body weight. Here's how to make weight for a competition without sacrificing performance and recovery.

Mitch Lockhart

Dec 20, 2023

1 min read

Lifestyle and Mindset

CrossFit Open Tips From WAG Nutrition Coaches

The CrossFit Open is an exciting time whether you’re new to the game or have been at it for a while. At WAG Nutrition, we’ve coached hundreds of clients through one of the most popular CrossFit community events so naturally, we have some advice to give.

Ali Macy

Feb 14, 2022

1 min read

Weight Loss

How to Enjoy "The Process" with your Nutrition

Whether it is getting healthier, losing weight, making weight for a competition, getting stronger, optimizing performance, or improving gut health (just to name a few goals we see here at WAG), learning to love “The Process” is one of the things that will help you get there.

Anna Winton

Feb 2, 2022

1 min read

Muscle Gain and Performance

Should You Retest a Workout During the CrossFit Open?

Have you ever finished a workout during the CrossFit Open and received a score short of what you were hoping for? Have you ever felt the need to redo a workout right away because you thought you could have done better?

Team WAG

Mar 13, 2019

1 min read

Muscle Gain and Performance

Asdis Hjalmsdottir: An Olympian's Mindset

Asdis and her father shared a bond that goes beyond wearing his name on her bib at every competition, so when she got the call that his battle with depression had come to an end, she decided she had two choices: lie down or get up.

Team WAG

Sep 20, 2018

1 min read