Overview:
Integrative Sports Nutrition is a way of working with an athlete via the tools of Functional Medicine and Nutritional Therapy.
The aim of this webinar is to provide academics, students, physiologists, sports scientists, health professionals and nutritionists with an introduction of how to work with their physiological knowledge of an athlete’s body to improve their state of functional health, which is ultimately required to reach peak levels of performance.
Learning Outcomes of This Webinar:
The aim of this webinar is to provide academics, students, physiologists, sports scientists, health professionals and nutritionists with an introduction of how to work with their physiological knowledge of an athlete’s body to improve their state of functional health, which is ultimately required to reach peak levels of performance.
This webinar will allow attendees to:
- Understand a deeper (functional) way of working with food for the outcome of an athlete’s improved health
- Appreciate the importance of nourishing an athlete’s health systems if athletic performance is the end goal
- See how genetics and individuality can be woven into the clinical picture
- Question macronutrient ratios and nutrient timing practices required for each individual athlete
- Understand the term ‘conditionally ergogenic’ with respect to a particular athlete’s nutrient needs at any one time
- Recognise that one-size-fits-all does not work
