Melanie Nocher

"Taking Kinetica protein means I can get back into the pool feeling less sore sooner to get more out of training. My skinfold's have decreased as-well which is great as every little helps and the weights I can lift are increasing quicker than ever before. Along with harder training and better recovery thanks to the Kinetica products i'm hoping to improve my times even more" Melanie Nocher

My aspirations are to make the 2012 Olympics in London, my goal is to move forward and make sure I remain one of the Irish swimmers who make the team again. But starting at the beginning because this is my biography... I started swimming when I was nine years old in a local swimming club called new northern. It was a little club which my friend Emma Campbell asked me to go along to with her. Its interesting looking back on it now because all my friends used to beat me and all got moved up into higher squads before me, yet I stuck with it and at the age of twelve I won my first Ulster championship medal. My coach Pearse McGuigan-forecasted to my parents and myself then that he saw a talent in me and thought I could achieve a lot in the sport. The real reality of training at 5 o’clock now had a meaning, when I started to continually win competitions and break records I started to believe in myself that I could do whatever I set my mind to.

I think it’s fair to say the life of a swimmer is pretty brutal; there are not a lot of sports where training starts at 5am before school most mornings and after school as-well. But it paid off, and at 13 I was Irish open champion in the 200m backstroke, which was between both junior and senior swimmers. Being ranked no.1 in Ireland in my main event came with a lot of pressures... I attended my first international swim competition in 2003. The short course Europeans is a major meet where very talented top class swimmers compete in... So at 13 for me to be a part of this was a big eye opener.