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Why Would you Choose a Sports Nutrition Specialist?

Whether you are a weekend warrior, a high school or college team player, an amateur or professional athlete, your focus is to be the best that you can be in your game.  A Sports Nutrition Coach will help get you there.

Sports Nutrition is a unique look at nutrition as it applies to fitness and athletic performance.  It provides insight into energy production, from the time foods enters the digestive process to when it is delivered into every body cell.  Most importantly, it relates to energy, strength, stamina, recovery, and ultimately to optimal performance.

Sports Nutrition instructs you how nutritional intake can maximize exercise training, refuel recovery, and boost athletic performance. It explains how the body uses food for fuel and the different roles that key nutrients play in making us strong and healthy.

Our consultation program is designed to provide a scientifically based understanding of sports nutrition requirements and recommendations relevant to each athlete’s condition and chosen sport.

WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU

To first time clients we offer a Free 30-minute phone Introduction to review your Game, your workout strategy, your Recovery, what isn’t working, and what are your expectations. We will discuss what we can do for you to see if there is an appropriate match.  If you choose to make an appointment, select from the Consultation Topics List 2-3 items for our initial discussion.  We will review your medical & sports history along with your sports goals and priorities, and make some recommendations.  We will follow up with a written summary outlining our discussion and recommendations.  A consultation runs about 1-hour ($85/hr), either by phone or office appointment.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

- Complete and submit our Consultation
  Form

- Define your Game – Run, Swim, Bike,
  Triathlon, Ironman, Body Building

- Specify your sport’s Goals:  Short term vs.
  long term. Prioritize.

- List other specialists you may be working
  with: Physicians, Trainers, Therapists.

- Review Topics List & select 2-3 topics for
  your first Consultation

- Tell us what you would like to get out of
  this consultation

- Call or email to schedule appointment

FAX or e-mail the following prior to your scheduled appointment:

- Submit Consultation Form (as mentioned
  above)

- Copy of your workout schedule

- Copy of your events schedule

- Submit List of medications & supplements
  you are currently taking

Sports Nutrition Consultation Topics (Click here for more detail)

DIET:  Dietary choices that prevent disease & maximize performance.

DIGESTION:  How foods are digested and metabolized in order to provide necessary energy to fuel muscular activity.

DETOX: Efficient & effective elimination of toxic waste

HEALTHY BODY WEIGHT: Too little or too much

SLEEP PATTERN:  Adequate quantity & quality for maximum Recovery

ENERGY PATTERN:  Daily, weekly flow of energy

STRENGTH:  History of strength development & patterns

STAMINA:  Workout & performance patterns

HORMONAL BALANCE:  Monthly & seasonal patterns

STRESSORS VS. DE-STRESSORS:  Balancing stress with de-stressors

ALLERGIES:  Environmental vs. Food based

PAIN & INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS:  Acute vs. Chronic & consequences

IMMUNE FUNCTION:  Seasonal patterns

RECOVERY STRATEGY:  Current strategy & effectiveness

SUPPLEMENT-MEDICATION REVIEW:  Check Drug-Supplement-Food interactions & depletions

Going far beyond the typical food pyramid formula, our comprehensive nutritional assessment presents nutritional concepts tailored for application by athletes in any sport and anyone serious about fitness and nutrition. We simplify the biochemistry required for optimal performance into winning principles that ensure an athlete’s key energy systems are optimized at all times.