Nutrition and dietetics

In the world of athletic performance, milliseconds or centimetres can be the difference between a gold or silver medal, qualification or waiting another year to make a team. There is no wonder then that athletes are always in search of the edge over the competition, for that 1-2% increase in performance. Whether you are an elite athlete, a weekend warrior, a junior looking to move into senior sport or a corporate executive looking to maximise your energy, a sports dietitian can help you reach your best.

Sports dietitians are experts in optimising your performance through a range of nutritional and lifestyle strategies. Here are just some of the specific ways a sports dietitian can help you:

• Team sport athletes wanting to improve performance.
• Endurance athletes looking to develop a race plan.
• Helping athletes make weight for weight class sports (e.g. boxing, powerlifting/weightlifting).
• Athletes looking to gain muscle and/or body size.
• Body composition analysis through skin folds (ISAK Accredited).
• Managing health conditions with your training, including diabetes, PCOS, IBS/IBD etc.

As Accredited Practicing Dietitians (APD), our sports dietitians can help to improve your health, energy and confidence to fuel your body. They are also experienced in managing chronic and acute conditions through nutrition and lifestyle modifications. Here is how an APD might be able to help you:

• Strategies to help you create long term habits and make healthy eating easier.
• Managing symptoms of IBS.
• Supporting people with eating disorders and also those with disordered eating habits who want to improve their relationship with food and their body.
• Improving your mood and mental health through nutrition changes.
• Strategies to control blood glucose and cholesterol levels for long term health.
• Helping clients, both men and women, restore low hormone levels for optimum function.