How i can help you succeed.

 

I support endurance and ultra-endurance athletes, from one-off consultations to monthly plans, short courses, and guest speaking. I use nutrition to support optimal health, adaptation to training, weight management, race fuelling, and beyond. Here are examples of some of the areas I can help you.

  • Athlete Health and Immunity

    Health and Immunity.

    Performance starts with a healthy diet. A sub-optimal diet will lead to ill health, fatigue, decreased exercise function, and possible injury. I start by analyzing your diet, providing personalized advice, meal ideas and tools to ensure you can plan and take control of your own optimal diet to support a healthy functioning body and immune system.

  • Training Adaptations

    optimising training adaptations.

    You train hard, so use nutrition to best support those training adaptions and be the best athlete you can be. I help you to plan your nutrition to enable you to support the development of your physical ability, power and endurance capacity. I use a range of nutrition interventions to get the best out of your training.

  • Gut Health

    Gut Health and Training.

    How many times have you felt sick or had stomach upset during a race? This is a complex problem with many possible reasons. I provide athletes with a gut training test and protocol to assess and train your gut, along with nutrition planning to support gut comfort and begin to limit gut issues such as nausea and pain.

  • Race Fuelling

    Race Fuelling and Planning.

    Support for what to eat, when to eat, and what not to eat to get the best out of your next race. I plan and work with you to put together your race fuelling plan. This covers timing, type of food and total amount.

  • Hydration

    Hydration.

    Learn how to optimally hydrate to support performance and manage your fluid intake effectively for training and racing. Learn about electrolytes and fluid osmolality to support gut comfort.

  • Recovery

    Recovery.

    To be able to train to your best, you need to recover optimally. I teach you what foods will support recovery and how to time nutrient intake to better support workouts and ensure you are adequately fuelled for the work required in each session.

  • Injury Recovery

    injury.

    The most successful athletes are those that train consistently. I use nutrition to reduce the chance of you getting sidelined, and provide nutrition interventions to speed up recovery when you do., getting you back out to be your best.

  • Female Runner

    Training for Coaches and Personal Trainers.

    I provide training, education, advice, support, and planning for coaches and personal trainers to improve the nutrition advice they give to clients, helping to increase client success.

  • Body Composition

    Body Composition and Weight Management.

    Body composition and weight management are often associated with performance. My focus is on ensuring you are able to meet and maintain body composition and weight goals healthy and safely, with optimal energy. We plan your weight across the season to ensure we can optimise training and performance.

  • Consultancy

    Consultancy and Public Speaking.

    I provide sports nutrition consultancy sessions for individuals, sports clubs, companies, organizations and events. I have 22 years of experience in public speaking and teaching. I can provide short courses for large and small groups.

  • Masters athlete

    Nutrition for Masters and Older Athletes

    Did you know the average age of an ultra-runner is over 40? I provide a range of focussed nutrition strategies for older athletes to support health and performance into old age. You can still be fit, active, and competitive in old age.

Nutrition to Support Health and performance: taking control of your performance diet.

How I help you

My goal is simple: to optimize diet and nutrition to enable you to compete at your best.

There are four key areas, these are:

  1. Nutrition for Health and Immunity

  2. Nutrition for Performance and Adaptation

  3. Nutrition for Competition

  4. Nutrition for Recovery and Repair

Sports nutrition doesn’t have to be complex or confusing. It has two basic aims: To support optimal athlete health and immunity and enhance performance and recovery.

I work with you to help put the fun back into every meal. You shouldn’t feel guilty about what you eat, and together, we work to give you the knowledge, confidence, and control over your own performance diet.

why do I need a sports nutritionist?

Essentially, my role is the same as a coach. I work with you at every step of your season as your Sports Nutritionist to ensure you are optimizing your nutrition to successfully support your training, health, and performance. I look at your diet and periodize how you eat, ensuring you are eating the right foods at the right time.

The process involves discussing your goals, reviewing your performance, analyzing your existing diet, making a nutrition plan, and providing you with the support, skills, and knowledge you need at every stage to nail your nutrition.

Here’s an example of how a sports nutritionist can help you:

You’ve got an entry for your dream race. It cost close to 1 month’s salary to enter, but it’s taken you 3 years to qualify for this prestigious multi-day race. You’ve trained for 6 months, you hired a coach, paid for hotels, transport, and a training camp - on day 1 you DNF due to (choose A, B, or C)

A. It’s hot and you struggle to keep food down leading to a lack of energy. Your GI issues make you throw up and throw in the towel. At the end of day 1, you feel fatigued and decide not to continue.

B. You struggled in training, you can never seem to reach your peak and feel like you plateau early in the season. You struggled to make training adaptations and recovery. At the end of day 1, you feel fatigued and decide not to continue.

C. You were injured during training and lost valuable training time. On top of this you got sick. In addition, your period stopped and this made you worried that you were overtraining, so you backed off and decided to eat less food so you would not put on excess weight. At the end of day 1, you feel fatigued and decide not to continue.

These are just some examples of how a sports nutritionist can help you prepare across the season. The aim of a sports nutritionist is to get you to the start line, healthy, fit and in the best shape you can be. We help you to get the best out of your training, make the adaptations you need to perform, ensure you meet your energy needs, guide gut training, plan your race nutrition, and reduce your chance of illness and injury.