Functional Sports Nutrition

What do you want from your body?

1. Improved performance?
2. Optimum recovery?
3. Less injuries?
4. Less colds, flus and chest infections?

Then you are right to be looking at your diet and nutritional intake.  
Getting your diet and nutritional intake right will give improved outcomes for your sporting goals and how you feel. 

Sports science is an area that is always evolving, and has becoming a more multidisciplinary arena, recognising that high level sporting success involves an amalgamation of many factors in an individual athlete;  physical, mental, technical, tactical, strategic, genetic, cultural. All of these factors are interdependant with each other, and optimising the functioning of the mind and the body of an athlete will work towards optimum performance.
Functional sports nutrition embraces this holistic approach that looks to all the indvidual needs of each athlete as a unique being. So how is this diifferent from basic sports nutrition?  
Sports nutrition as a stand alone science adequately looks at the dietary requirements of athletes in relation to their sport and training/competition needs. 
However, often a few things are missing, e.g.:

• The requirement to look at the needs of each athlete or sports person as an individual and all the differences that brings;  lifestyle, responsibilities, dependants, underlying health status, age.  These are things that make us unique and have effect on the overall demands being placed on our physiology.
• The full nutritional and non-nutritional values of foods being eaten, with consideration being given to full nutritient (or non-nutrient) value of foods in addition to the macronutrient content.

These factors ARE considered in the functional sports nutrition approach, and Bridget combines up-to-date sports science and naturopathic nutrition in the MindBody Nutrition clinic. Pulling together sports nutrition and nutritional therapy using an integrated medicine approach offers the best health and dietary opportunity for each individual athlete or sports enthusiast.

As such, the performance and recovery needs of you, as an athlete or a sports enthusiast of any age, are met by an evidence based and tailored sports nutrition plan.

 

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On hand here in the MindBody clinic we are delighted to have the services of John Connolly for sports motivation and focus with mindcoachjohn.com.