Youth Sports Nutrition
If you’re looking for nutritional support for athletes ages 6+, our team certainly fits the bill. Our nutritionists and dietitians for young athletes will help optimize your diet to improve fitness, enhance endurance, build muscle and boost overall athletic performance through educational sessions and a personalized meal plan created specifically for you and your given sport.
How Can a Nutritionist & Dietitian for Youth Sports Help
Dietitians and nutritionists for young athletes can help in a variety of ways:
- Educate young athletes how much food someone of their size, age, and gender needs to eat to be healthy, specifically as it relates to the given physical activity or sport.
- Assess (and overhaul, if needed) pre-game, during-game, and post-game nutrition: breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, fluid intake, etc.
- Learn how to fuel the body for the given sporting discipline.
- Supply tips and strategies to help optimize nutrition leading up to game day or event day.
- Receive a personalized nutrition plan that is designed specifically for your goal(s) and sport.
- Discuss nutrition during the season as well as off-season.
- Address matters pertaining to hydration (before, during and after the game), including the importance and how much you should drink for the specific activity and conditions.
- Learn about supplementation for improving aerobic and anaerobic capacity and recovery, if desired.
- Receive professional guidance to help your body refuel, repair and recover for your specific sport.
- Provide nutritional support for specific goals (e.g., muscle growth).
- Help manage various dietary and co-existing conditions (e.g., digestive distress).
- Bust various nutrition myths and provide facts.
- Help build a positive relationship with food, if needed and if applicable.
- Ensure the sports nutrition eating plan is conducive to healthy growth and development.
- Provide the latest evidence-based sports nutrition information.
- Help improve picky youth eating habits.
Additional nutrition support and guidance for young athletes:
- Answer questions the young athlete may have. Essentially, pick the brain of a nutritionist and dietitian who specializes in nutritional support for youth sports.
- Monitor progress and make tweaks, if needed.
- Provide additional tips, strategies and professional advice.
- Receive accountability from health, wellness and nutrition coaches.
Related: Dietitian For Teenagers
Bonus:
In addition to working with a dietitian and nutritionist for young athletes, you can also seek the counsel of one of our practitioners who is also a certified personal trainer.
Nutrition For Young Athletes
Our sports nutrition experts work with young athletes who take part in team sports and individual sports, be it recreationally, competitively or at the elite level.
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
Important: Please keep in mind that our nutritionists and dietitians for young athletes are in very high demand. As such, and to help you avoid wait times, we recommend skipping the free consultation and booking an appointment instead.