
North Carolina Certified Sports Nutrition Therapy
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North Carolina Certified Sports Nutritionist: How to Optimize Nutrition for Sports
How to Optimize Nutrition for Sports
For many athletes, training is (rightly so) the primary focus. However, nutrition plays a powerful role in sports performance, and is under-utilized by many athletes.
Reaching peak sports performance requires not just a great training plan, but also a great nutrition plan. This plan should include seasonal changes based on competitions, training nutrition, pre-competition, during-competition, and post-competition nutrition. Pre and post-workout nutrition should also be carefully planned.
Some of the critical elements of an individualized sports nutrition plan include:
- Optimizing energy intake
- Specific diet plans for the quantity and quality of food
- Also, specific timing of consuming carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, before and after training for a competition
- Hydration, fiber, antioxidants, nutrients, and food sourcing should also be considered
- Travel should never be overlooked and should be carefully planned for as.
- Finally, for weight-specific sports, a highly individualized and safe nutrition plan is needed
All of these elements are hard to balance on your own, so working with a Certified Sports Nutritionist can take the guesswork out of your nutrition plan to optimize your sports performance.
Why Work with a Certified Sports Nutritionist to Develop a Nutrition Plan?
Often, athletes have the impression that they can eat without much planning or thought. In fact, athletes with a professional sports nutrition plan, improve performance and recovery while minimizing chance of injury. Sports nutrition is also critical for optimizing lean mass, achieving the correct body composition for sport, and avoiding dangerous hormone imbalances that are common in athletes.
These hormone imbalances are especially common in female athletes. The combination of disordered eating, amenorrhea (loss or irregular menstrual cycles), and osteoporosis is most common in sports that emphasize leanness, but these health issues can impact girls and women in any sport.
Male athletes are also not immune to the adverse health impacts of under-nutrition related to sports competition.
Athletes That Benefit from Sports Nutrition
- CrossFit nutrition
- Running nutrition (sprinting, marathon, etc.)
- Triathlon nutrition
- Cycling nutrition
- Powerlifting and Olympic lifting
- Golf nutrition
- Nutrition for adding lean mass and gaining weight
Sports Nutrition Plan Components
One of the Certified Sports Nutritionists on our team will tailor a diet plan to fit your needs. A professional sports nutrition plan should include:
- Energy targets
- Macronutrient calculations
- Diet quality
- Timing around training and competitions
- Recovery nutrition
- A hydration plan
- Different plans for training, competition, and rest days
- Anti-inflammatory and tissue-supporting components
- Specific meal plans and recipes, to make the plan easy to implement
- Advisement on what supplements (and amounts) to take for effectiveness and safety
Most athletes are eating whatever they want, whenever they feel like it, especially when they travel. Refining sports nutrition with a complete plan can make a dramatic difference when it comes to performance, recovery, and injury avoidance.
Sports Nutrition Experts
We’ll provide you with a plan that optimizes your sports nutrition. First, we’ll start with a full diet and environment assessment. You’ll also have the option of getting a full micronutrient panel (link to testing page), so that you know exactly what nutrients you may be low in.
Then, we’ll develop a specific, realistic, and effective dietary plan that optimizes your performance. You’ll have access to meal plans, recipes, and support from us, so that implementing our plan is stress-free.
Also, we don’t just give you a plan and send you out the door. We’ll make sure you’re supported throughout your training and competition season.
Finally, our goal is to get you to where you don’t need us! We teach you how to follow our process on your own, so that you can have ongoing, independent success with sports performance.
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Here’s an Overview of Our Results-Driven Process
Step 1
Find out if we’re a good fit on free, no-obligation 15-minute chemistry call.
Step 2
Complete our secure forms. We collect a detailed assessment and any labs you wish to provide – we want the whole story!
Step 3
Meet with us for your initial visit. We’ll review your assessment, you’ll get several choices for first steps, and you’ll get a detailed plan with all of the info and support that you need for success.
Step 4
Complete any desired additional assessments such as functional lab testing, body composition or metabolic assessment, or blood glucose monitoring (all optional).
Step 5
If desired, get additional support with group programs or weekly email check-ins.
Step 6
Meet with us on a recurring basis to further optimize your plan, move to further stages, and eventually achieve independent wellness!
Peak performance depends on peak nutrition. Contact us for a free call to discuss how one of our Certified Sports Nutritionists can help you with a plan to optimize your sports nutrition.
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Wondering if we’re a good fit? Then let’s set up a short call! We’d love to discuss your health challenges, goals and how we can support you in achieving those goals.
Nutrition Professionals You Can Trust
Many claim to be a nutritionist. However, only a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) meets rigorous academic requirements. This includes: Extensive clinical training, a nutrition degree from an accredited university, passing a rigorous board exam, and meeting continuing education requirements. Further, we are Licensed Registered Dietitians (LDNs) in the state of North Carolina. We are further credentialed in Integrative and Functional Nutrition. We stay informed of guidelines set by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics so we can provide our patients with expert nutrition counseling.




