Nutrition Coaching for Athletes Course 2

How to Create Personalized Nutrition Programs for Athletes

This course removes the guesswork of personalizing nutrition for your athletes — and gives you a step-by-step process to build custom plans that work, regardless of your clients’ needs or level of play.

  • Get a system and a clear, repeatable process for addressing the shared concerns of all your active clients while also creating unique plans
  • Use expert tools and assessments for meal planning, supplements, hydration protocols, and more
  • Learn the intangible and practical aspects of successful nutrition coaching so you can communicate action plans and get buy-in from clients, coaches, team management, and others
  • Earn Continuing Education Credits (CECs)
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WHO IT’S FOR

Nutrition professionals who want to further develop their coaching skills—along with those who simply want a deeper dive into this topic.

COURSE LENGTH

This course is entirely self-paced, and the material can be covered in detail in about 12-18 total hours.

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You may coach clients who seem similar...

Like a team made up of players of the same age, sex, and competition level.

But with careful observation and good conversations, you’ll start to notice each player is vastly different—and diverse people may need diverse diets.

This means a big part of your job as a coach is personalizing programs to consider your clients’ unique needs.

But with so many potential factors that a coach could consider—personalization can feel overwhelming…

How do you know what matters?
How do you know when it matters?
How do you know what to do first? 

The good news is we’ve got your back.

In How to Create Personalized Nutrition Programs for Athletes, we’ll go beyond theory and teach you how to personalize for performance through a logical, repeatable process that’s client-centered, uses systematic decision making, and is science-backed.

When you can think and coach in more sophisticated, nuanced ways, addressing what your clients really need in their messy, complex lives:

  • You’ll create better, more effective nutrition coaching programs
  • Your clients will be more likely to actually follow your programs
  • Your clients will then get better results—whether that’s winning their competition or just winning life

This course gives you the tools, techniques, and advanced coaching skills to do just that.

What you’ll learn in How to Create Personalized Nutrition Programs for Athletes

Personalize your plans beyond food with practical thinking, reasoning, coaching, and communication skills that help your athletes hit their performance goals.

Help your athlete clients clarify and develop their performance and lifestyle goalsmaking you a go-to advisor and nutrition expert.

Effective nutrition and lifestyle practices that sustainably boost your athletes’ performance, results, and recovery.

Create programs that work without getting paralyzed by seeking “perfect precision” in your plans.

Deepen your understanding of the biopsychosocial factors (e.g., cultural influences, lifestyle, stress) that make athletes unique and how they affect nutrition coaching.

A step-by-step repeatable process for putting your new knowledge into a clear, easy-to-communicate plan for both individual & team sport athletes.

Practice client-centered coaching techniques with confidence and design robust action plans based on those techniques.

Help your clients feel like you “get them,” which improves your coaching relationship and their belief in your coaching program.

How the course works

How to Create Personalized Nutrition Programs for Athletes is a self-paced, digital course that gives you advanced training, tools, and techniques to build practical, personalized nutrition plans that work.

The three expertly crafted units go beyond theory to share our direct experience working with thousands of high-performing movers.

Here’s an overview of what’s included:

Unit 1:
Personalizing for performance

Estimated learning time: 4-6 hrs

You’ll get the building blocks for personalizing an action plan for any athlete. In this Unit, you’ll learn to balance details with the “big picture” and explore crucial coaching skills, such as:

  • Thinking systematically, planning, and prioritizing
  • Individualizing without getting lost in details
  • Understanding the most critical biopsychosocial factors for your active clients
  • Clearly communicating your coaching plans

Unit 2:
The science of personalized programming

Estimated learning time: 4-6 hrs

In Unit 2, we’ll review evidence-based practice and examine which nutritional options are best supported by research and experience. You’ll get tools and techniques to:

  • Gather and assess relevant data based on your client’s goals
  • Deeply understand what makes your client unique
  • Help you understand which nutritional recommendations will help your clients perform and recover their best and why

We’ll help you apply these skills as you practice the first two steps of PN’s 6-step coaching process.

Unit 3:
Building a plan and taking action

Estimated learning time: 4-6 hrs

Unit 3 moves you from concept to strategy, tactics, and execution of an appropriate action plan for any given client.

  • Effectively collaborate with a client to develop a plan using client-centered coaching and effective communication best practices
  • Create useful metrics for progress
  • Practice using feedback loops and outcome-based decision making

Create unique nutrition programs that work —
for athletes of all levels

Overcome personalization overwhelm with a clear, repeatable process to tackle standard concerns and individual needs in your nutrition plans.

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What’s included in How to Create Personalized Nutrition Programs for Athletes?

40+ downloadable resources.

Get exclusive access to PN client coaching resources, including assessment and planning forms, such as Calculating Macros and Carbohydrate Fueling Strategies for Athletes. Plus, worksheets and cheat sheets to help clients identify when things are going well, build momentum, and shift gears when needed.

PN Nutrition Calculator – Pro Edition

This supercharged version of the PN Nutrition Calculator gives you customization options, so you can see both the “big picture” and the granular details of your client’s eating plan—giving you the ability to coach at the highest possible level.

Apply this course towards an Advanced Certificate in Nutrition Coaching for Athletes.

This is one of three required courses that make up our Specialist in Nutrition Coaching for Athletes certificate. Take any of the courses as a standalone. Or take all three to get the certificate as a way to showcase your expertise and stand out from the crowd.

Real-world case studies.

Drawing on our experience with over 100,000 coaching clients, we’ll share plenty of real-world, real-people applications of coaching concepts through videos and case study activities throughout the course.

Study at your own pace, anywhere.

All of the course materials are delivered digitally so that you can work through the course at your own speed, from anywhere in the world.

Use this course to earn CECs.

How to Create Personalized Nutrition Programs for Athletes qualifies for continuing education credits with the following organizations: ACE, AFAA, CPTN, NASM, ISSA, NBHWC, REPs NZ and UKIHCA.

Why learn with Precision Nutrition?

Here are just a few reasons…

We’re the originators of behavior-change for nutrition coaching, and since 2005 we’ve used the tools, science, and systems in our courses to help over 100,000 people transform their health and fitness. (No other nutrition company in the world can say this.) That means everything you’ll learn has been proven in the real world, with real people.

We are the experts that other experts come to for help. Precision Nutrition advises organizations around the world, coaches elite athletes and sports teams, and has been featured in leading publications. There’s a reason over 2 million people come to our website every single month.

We’re the home of the world’s #1 nutrition coaching certification, with over 150,000 health and fitness professionals choosing to get certified by us.

Science-backed and peer-reviewed. Our coaching method was recently validated in 3 peer-reviewed studies. This means everything you’ll learn is backed by science.

Bottom line: If you want to learn how to coach nutrition from the best in the field, you’ve come to the right place.

Meet the course authors

Our team includes some of the best nutritionists, PhDs, strength coaches, counselors, researchers, and specialists in the field.

Krista Scott-Dixon is Precision Nutrition’s director of curriculum. She earned her doctorate in Women’s Studies from York University. She holds counseling certifications from George Brown College and Leading Edge Training, which is certified by the Canadian Psychological Association.

Krista Scott-Dixon, PhD

Brian St. Pierre is the director of nutrition at Precision Nutrition, the coauthor of Precision Nutrition’s Level 1 Certification textbook, The Essentials of Nutrition and Coaching, and the mastermind behind the Precision Nutrition Calculator. He holds a master’s degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition from the University of Maine.

Brian St. Pierre, MS, RD, CSCS

Adam Feit is Precision Nutrition’s head strength and sport psychology coach. Feit earned his master’s degree in Exercise Science and Health Promotion from the California University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Exercise Science from Springfield College. He recently received his PhD in Sport and Exercise Psychology from Springfield College where he examined the use of mental skills in collegiate strength and conditioning.

Adam Feit, PhD, CSCS, SCCC, PN2

Helen Kollias, PhD, is PN’s science advisor and coauthor of Precision Nutrition’s Level 1 Certification textbook, The Essentials of Nutrition and Coaching. An exercise physiologist, Dr. Kollias earned her doctorate in Molecular Biology from York University in Toronto, specializing in the area of muscle development and regeneration. She has a master’s degree in Exercise Physiology and Biochemistry from the University of Waterloo, and has taught exercise physiology, molecular biology, and biochemistry at the university and college level.

Helen Kollias, PhD

Craig Weller is Precision Nutrition’s exercise systems and program director and a PN Master Coach. His certifications include US Navy SWCC (Special Warfare Combatant Crewman), Department of State WPPS-2 (Worldwide Personal Protective Service), Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, StrongFirst Girya Level 1, and Precision Nutrition Level 2. He’s also a US Department of State Worldwide Personal Protective Service Security Specialist and formerly a nationally-registered emergency medical technician.

Craig Weller, CPT, US Navy SWCC, SFG1, PN Master coach

Karin is a Curriculum Writer with a PhD focused on health behavior change. In addition to that, she has a M.A. in Communications, a Bachelor's in Psychology, and she has published research on Mindset Theory.

Karin Nordin, PhD, PN1

Alexander Schwartz, PhD, is a nutrition scientist and curriculum designer with Precision Nutrition. Dr. Schwartz earned his PhD in Nutritional Sciences in the area of testosterone, appetite regulation and exercise physiology. His master’s of science degree in Human Kinetics focused on energy expenditure, weight loss and obesity and he has been heavily cited on the subject.

Alexander Schwartz, PhD

Dr. Ezinne Meribe is a Research Scientist and Curriculum Writer at Precision Nutrition. She obtained her bachelor's degree in Medicine & Surgery from University of Nigeria Nsukka. She has a Masters degree in Public Health from Kumamoto University, Japan where she is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate. The core of her work is built on using client centered communication to improve health outcomes.

Ezinne Meribe, MD, PhD(c)

Ryan Andrews is a principle nutritionist and adviser for Precision Nutrition and an adjunct instructor at Purchase College, State University of New York. He holds master’s degrees in both Nutrition and Exercise Physiology from Kent State University and a BS in Exercise Science from the University of Northern Colorado. Ryan completed his dietetic internship at Johns Hopkins Medicine and studied sustainable food systems at Columbia University in the executive education program.

Ryan Andrews, MS, MA, RD, RYT, CSCS

Dr. Marge Garrod is a retired clinical researcher with a PhD in Nutritional Biology and Masters in Pharmacology/Toxicology, who worked mostly on human nutritional absorption and metabolism studies both through UC Davis and the ARS-USDA Western Human Nutrition Research Center at Davis.

Marjorie Garrod, PhD

Carlos Davila, M.A. Developmental Psychology, is an Adjunct Professor at LIU Brooklyn (where he teaches Sports Psychology at the undergraduate and graduate level) and at John Jay College (where he teaches Intro to Psychology). He’s also a CrossFit coach and group exercise instructor at Fhitting Room.

Carlos Davila, M.A.

Laura Castellani is a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto. Her research focuses on understanding the metabolic implications of antipsychotics, and how exercise and nutrition can restore metabolic and mental health. Prior to joining CAMH, Laura completed her PhD in Exercise Physiology & Metabolism, her MSc in Human Health and Nutritional Science, and a BSc in Biological Science, all at the University of Guelph, Ontario.

Laura Castellani, PhD

Elnaz is a researcher and writer for Precision Nutrition. She holds an HBSc in Biology and Psychology and completed her PhD degree in Kinesiology and Health Science at York University. Elnaz is also a Precision Nutrition Level 1 certified coach and a registered holistic nutritionist through the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition.

Elnaz Moghimi, PhD

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Create unique nutrition programs that work —
for athletes of all levels

Overcome personalization overwhelm with a clear, repeatable process to tackle standard concerns and individual needs in your nutrition plans.

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