Nutrition for American Football

A High Performance, Holistic Approach to Artfully, Practically, and Realistically Applying the Science of Nutrition

This is the ONLY comprehensive resource like this IN THE WORLD covering all things nutrition as it relates to football from a holistic and high performance perspective.

What is included:

• 266 Slides (included)
• 18 Videos
• 17.5 Hours of content covering 16 different topics
• ~300 References (included)

10+ years of experience and implementation, perspectives from high-level D1 football teams and the NFL

Real life solutions to artfully, practically, and realistically apply the science of nutrition

Stories from College Football and the NFL

What is covered:

-Time motion demands/bioenergetics

-Nutrition periodization for the entire year

• Winter Offseason
• Spring
• Summer
• Training Camp
• In-season

-Health, Stress, and Performance frameworks at each stage

-How to get everyone on the same page and maximize opportunities

-Nutrition assessment

• How to figure out what your players needs are, habits, and what they know

-Body composition assessment and frame size profiling

• How to figure out how big your players can get, how much mass their frames can hold, and what it all means

-Nutrition for body comp/weight changes

• Realistic and ideal ways for players to gain/lose weight
• 2 case studies
• The frameworks I've used to achieve this

-Nutrition for training and competition

• Guidelines and recommendations for players to consume
• Before lifts/practices/games
• During practices/games
• Breakfast/lunch/dinner
• Nutrition options provided at the facility
• Hotel/travel/gameday setup
• Sideline/halftime
• Hot/cold weather conditions
• Altitude

-Cramping

• Risk factors, assessment, what you can do

-Hydration for training and competition

• Risk factors, assessment, products to use, how to hydrate
• Before/during/after training/competition

-Recovery nutrition

• Macro/micro guidelines, functional foods, supplements
• How to optimize recovery nutrition based on periodization/goals

-Sleep

• Circadian rhythms, chrono-nutrition
• Ideal amount, sleep stages, sleep environment, sleep hygiene
• Napping
• Sleep effects on performance
• Sleep assessment
• Sleep deprivation/poor sleep, what can be done

-Nutrition and sleep

• Diet types
• Timing
• Functional foods
• Supplements

-Injury nutrition

• Injury etiology, common injuries seen in football
• Individualized testing, the big areas you are missing
• Nutrition frameworks for specific injuries
• Injury case study
• Immunity
• Inflammation

-Supplementation

• Supplementation categories
• Supplementation guidelines
• Products used/dosing