Sports Nutritionist
If you’re looking for a certified sports nutritionist and dietitian look no further! Our sports nutrition specialists will tweak your diet and create a meal plan to help reach your fitness and athletic goals, no matter the sporting discipline. Best of all, sports dietitian services are covered by most insurance plans. Free consultation.
Our Sports Nutritionists and Dietitians In The Media
About Our Sports Nutritionists
Sports Nutrition Training & Expertise
Our certified sports nutritionists and dietitians are more than coaches or trainers. In fact, they are regulated health professionals: registered dietitians specializing in sports nutrition. Each of our sports dietitians has specific areas of specialization, giving you the opportunity to work with experts in given fields.
James Richardson, Sports Nutrition Dietitian
Areas of focus:
Fitness & sports nutrition dietitian, James, specializes in the following areas:
- Nutrition and diet optimization to support fitness, performance, and recovery for athletes
- Sports nutrition and weight cutting for combat sports and martial arts such as:
- MMA
- Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
- Boxing
- Kickboxing
- Wrestling
- Judo
- Nutritional support for team sports such as:
- Soccer
- Hockey
- Football
- Basketball
- Sports nutrition for endurance athletes
- Nutrient timing for fitness and athletes (pre, during, post)
- Macronutrients and calorie optimization for body compensation changes (increasing muscle mass, reducing body fat)
- Individualized meal planning for fitness and athletes
- Nutritional support for athletes ages 8 and above
- Sports supplements
- Navigating facts vs myths of performance nutrition
- Helping individuals keep a healthy relationship between their diet and athletic goals
- Nutrition to assist in recovery from injuries and concussions
Provinces serviced: Ontario, Nova Scotia, PEI, New Brunswick and the 3 territories.
Read James’ written contribution: How to Grow Muscle and Lose Fat
Natalie Fraser, Sports Dietitian
Areas of focus:
Sports dietitian, Natalie, specializes in the following areas:
- Meal Planning for all athletic goals and competitive levels for strength training and endurance sports.
- Post and pre training fuelling- what to eat to maximize your energy and recovery.
- Fuelling while travelling for sport.
- Sports nutrition support for athletes ages 6+.
- Nutrition support for strength, endurance, team and individual sports.
- Supplement support, if applicable that is evidence based.
- Improving mindset around food- how it can support you rather than harm you.
- Fuelling for sport while managing pre existing conditions (IBS, diabetes, etc.).
- Calculating individual macronutrient needs for sport performance.
- Body composition:
- Help managing macronutrients to support body composition goals.
- Provide support for body composition goals through diet to achieve improved body composition such as increasing lean muscle mass and reducing overall fat percentage.
Provinces serviced: Ontario, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the 3 territories.
Megan Couturier, Sports Dietitian & Nutritionist
Areas of focus:
Megan specializes in the following sports nutrition areas:
- Nutrition support for strength and power athletes
- Body composition goals (i.e., increased lean body mass and loss of fat mass)
- Nutrition support for team sport athletes, 14+ (i.e., football, hockey, soccer, basketball)
- Nutrition for endurance athletes (i.e., half marathon, full marathon training)
- Macronutrient calculations and distribution based on individual needs and performance goals
- Hydration planning for specific sports (i.e., motor sports, hot climates)
- Meal planning for athletes 14+
- Pre-nutrition, intra-nutrition and post-nutrition for workouts, training or game days
- Sport supplement and ergogenic aid protocols
Provinces served: Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the 3 territories.
Related: Registered dietitian Moncton
Alana Haggerty, Sports Dietitian & Nutritionist, Personal Trainer
Areas of focus:
As an athlete and marathoner herself, Alana naturally focuses her practice on:
- Fitness and sports nutrition for athletes age 14+.
- Sports nutrition for endurance athletes:
- Fuel your body and run strong.
- Individualized nutrition requirements to fuel your body in alignment with your training regime and specific goals.
- Specific nutrition recommendations for before, during, and after runs to optimize athletic performance and aid in recovery.
- Discover how to carbohydrate load prior to your next half or full marathon.
- Optimize your fluid intake: Learn how to appropriately replace your electrolytes and fluid loss using calculations based on your individualized sweat loss rate.
- Provide guidance while you experiment with various gels, gu’s, sports drinks and electrolyte replacements and learn what works best for you.
- Learn the principles to set the foundation for training for your next race and for the overall goal of long-term running health.
- Learn how to adequately fuel to prevent exhaustion, injury and burnout.
- Nutrition strategies during both on- and off- season, aligned with goals of each.
- Evidence-based guidance surrounding various sport nutrition supplements and appropriate usage/dosing.
- Eliminate diet culture and fuel according to your specific athletic needs.
- Nutritional counselling for running events (track events, marathon events, et al.)
- Help minimize nutritional deficiencies during various stages of training.
- Weight management for athletes (weight loss & weight gain).
- Meal planning for athletes.
- Assist with off-season nutrition goals including focusing on body composition.
- Body composition: reducing body fat, increasing muscle mass.
- Assist endurance runners with building LEAN body mass.
- Nutrition programming for building muscle, strength and power.
- Minimization of nutritional deficiencies.
- Management of co-existing conditions.
Provinces serviced: Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the 3 territories.
Related: Edmonton dietitian
Kyle Butler, Sports Nutritionist & Registered Dietitian–currently not accepting new clients
Areas of focus:
- Sports nutrition:
- Nutritional support for strength training
- Macronutrient distribution and optimization
- Improving body composition
- Pre-, intra-, and post-workout nutrition
- Nutritional support for a wide variety of sports
- Weight management
- Meal planning for athletes of all types
- Nutritional support for teenagers
- And more
Provinces serviced: Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon, NWT and Nunavut.
Why Get Advice From a Sports Nutritionist & Dietitian at JM Nutrition?
Gain Access To Latest Evidence-Based Sports Nutrition Information
Our dietitians and nutritionists who specialize in sports nutrition and performance, will take the guesswork out of your hands, separate fact from fiction and provide you with the most current, evidence-based nutrition information. As a result, you will maximize the chances of reaching your individual fitness goal(s).
Highly Rated By Clients
Our certified sports nutritionists and dietitians continue to receive high praise from clients from all walks of life for the highly personalized and supportive nature of our counselling and nutrition coaching sessions. In fact, our clients come from across Canada because they know the value of outstanding service and a high success rate.
Who Can Benefit From Our Certified Sports Nutritionist & Dietitian
✓ people of all genders
✓ gym-goers & non-gym goers
✓ children, adolescents, youth, middle aged & older adult athletes
✓ beginner, intermediate, advanced & elite athletes
✓ competitive & recreational athletes
✓ athletes in various sports
✓ anyone looking to improve nutrition and fitness
✓ athletes following various diets: vegetarian, vegan, plant-based, flexitarian, gluten-free and more
Who are our fitness and sports nutrition clients?
Our sports nutritionists and dietitians work with clients from all walks of life, sporting disciplines and athletic backgrounds. We have, and continue to work, with clients from the following sporting disciplines:
- long-distance running
- triathlons
- fitness
- bodybuilding & strength-training
- cross fit
- mixed martial arts
- boxing
- cycling & spinning
- soccer
- rugby
- football
- hockey
- basketball
- baseball
- golf
- cricket
- volleyball
- racket sports
- track & field
- swimming
- skiing & snowboarding
- yoga
- zumba
- pilates
- dance
- gymnastics
- figure skating
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Contact us for a no-obligation phone consultation during which we can:
✓ outline how the process works
✓ discuss your goal(s)
✓ explain how billing and pricing work
✓ address concerns about insurance
✓ answer any other questions
How You Can Benefit From Working With A Sports Nutrition & Performance Specialist
Learn what & when to eat
If you’re an athlete, someone who aspires to improve his or her own athletic performance, or just a person who is physically active, it’s not only crucial to know what to eat, but more importantly, when to eat. Frequently, learning to do so can be the difference between success and lack thereof.
Therefore, our athletic nutritionist can provide valuable education, tools and guidance, so you can avoid self-sabotage. As a result, you will be in a better position to reach your goal(s), be it weight or fat loss, muscle growth or improved fitness and sports performance.
Receive a meal plan tailored to your athletic needs
Because we are all made differently and we each have our own individualized fitness goals, it’s vital that the nutrition plan we follow is customized to your specific sport or activity.
In other words, it must be tailored to your activity levels, goals, food preferences, budget, religious restrictions and overall lifestyle.
For this reason, the meal plans that we co-create offer structure along with flexibility to fit your needs. Doing so ensures that you’re able to stick to your meal plan in the long-term, and thus, reach your fitness goal(s).
Lose or gain weight
For well over 15 years, our nutrition consultants have helped thousands of clients with weight loss.
Accordingly, our sports nutrition dietitians have extensive training and experience in helping clients with healthy, sustainable weight loss as well as healthy weight gain.
In short, we take a comprehensive look at weight loss and weight gain, carefully analyzing all the contributing factors. Throughout the process, our practitioners will guide, support and encourage you while you make adjustments to your eating habits.
Improve body composition & build muscle
Furthermore, our sports performance & fitness specialists can help you bulk up naturally and/or improve your body composition.
Our sports nutritionist can certainly guide you in doing so in a healthy, nutritionally-balanced and effective way.
With a strong background in nutrition science as it relates to sports performance, and as a competing mixed martial artist himself, he no doubt understands the demands of high level athletic performance.
Increase strength
With their multi-disciplinary backgrounds, our sports nutritionists and dietitians will provide you with valuable insight that supplements your strength training program at your local gym or fitness centre.
As a client of our nutrition service, you will receive the latest evidence-based nutrition information, useful tools and practical tips from qualified nutrition experts. After all, our goal is to help you get leaner, stronger and healthier.
Improve athletic performance
By enlisting the help of our team you can discover many simple ways to improve your athletic performance.
During nutrition counselling sessions you can learn how to plan healthy meals for your specific physical activity. You can also receive countless pre-workout and post-workout nutrition tips. Alternatively, you can optimize your game-day nutrition by working closely with our sports nutritionist. You can also discover more about proper refuelling, hydration and optimum recovery.
Undoubtedly, a sports nutritionist can help to maximize athletic performance and increase the chances of getting the desired results.
Boost energy, stamina & endurance
You can also consult a sports nutritionist to help you avoid energy dips and slumps throughout the day or during workouts, build stamina and increase endurance–key components to better athletic performance.
In addition, you can discover various ways to overcome plateaus, particularly with weight loss or muscle gain. Surely, learning to fuel your body right sets the stage for the right results.
Improve metabolic health
Without a doubt, poor metabolic health can impact your well-being in a number of ways.
Certainly, it can lead to the development of heart disease, diabetes and stroke. It, too, can result in unhealthy weight gain and many associated complications. It can even seriously compromise athletic performance, leading to frustration and disappointment.
As a result, a healthy metabolism is interlinked with nutrition and exercise–something that cannot be overlooked when engaged in physical training.
Certainly, our practitioners can show you ways to boost your metabolism. Ultimately, doing so can result in a healthy weight, better absorption of nutrients, balanced blood sugar, increased energy levels and much more.
Reduce the risk of injury
Additionally, our sports nutritionist team can help you develop and follow a workout meal plan or meal plan for athletes to reduce the risk of various sports-related injuries.
Through an optimization of macronutrients, hydration, proper meal timing, supplementation and effective recovery methods, our athletic nutritionist is well-equipped to assist you in injury prevention.
Doing so will allow you to avoid setbacks associated with injuries while maximizing your performance at the gym or on the sporting field.
Heighten concentration
Unquestionably, a nutritionally-balanced diet can go a long way in sustaining brain health, improving alertness and concentration.
An often misunderstood mental factor, mental sharpness and clarity have an enormous impact on sports performance at any level.
Whether you take part in team or individual sports, it is critically important to nourish the brain so it can thrive.
Consequently, working with sports nutrition experts can ensure you are consuming foods in your meal plan that boost brain health, promoting razor sharp focus.
Learn more about sports supplements
Our sports nutrition experts have specialized training with various dietary supplements, including those designed for exercise and athletic performance.
Without a doubt, separating fact from false claims regarding the purported benefits of many supplements can be a daunting task. And this is where we come in.
With this in mind, we will provide you with the latest evidence-based nutritional science and help you choose supplements that are right for you.
Receive help counting macros to avoid errors
JM Nutrition’s sports nutrition specialists can also assist you in counting and tracking macros for weight loss, muscle growth or to help you reach your fitness goals.
Our certified sports nutritionist can certainly make sure you count, balance and optimize your macronutrients, avoiding common mistakes made by so many.
Consult our trusted experts for nutrition information that is current and reliable. Surely, you will be glad you did.
Address other conditions, diseases and needs
Because our sports nutritionists are registered dietitians, they can help you address a wide variety of other needs:
- high cholesterol & triglycerides
- high blood pressure
- diabetes
- fatty liver disease
- weight loss: for more information visit: weight loss dietitian services
- digestive health
- support irregular and disordered eating patterns
- address various dietary conditions and special diets
- attend to other men’s health nutritionist, women’s health nutritionist and children’s nutrition matters
Additional benefits our sports nutrition clients experience:
+ Light on your feet
+ Reduced fatigue
+ More restful sleep
+ Enhanced vitality
+ Relieved stress
+ Improved mood
+ Better body image
+ Increased confidence
+ Greater ability to manage & resist cravings
+ Increased confidence
+ Reduced back & joint pain
+ Healthier skin
+ Better hormonal balance
+ Higher sex drive