You're Training Hard. Here's What Might Be Holding You Back.
When I started weightlifting, I had no idea what I was doing with my nutrition.
I was training hard, showing up consistently, and doing everything I thought I was supposed to do.
But I was under-fuelled and under-recovered so consistently that my coach eventually got sick of watching it. He paid for me to work with his sports nutritionist.
That hour changed the way I understood my body and my training. Not just in the gym, but across my whole day.
What I was eating before sessions, how I was recovering, why I kept running out of steam at the exact wrong moment. It was all connected, and I had never seen it that way before.
After that, I wanted to understand everything about nutriton and dived down the rabbit hole.
I took Precision Nutrition. I used every resource I could find. I learned from sports nutritionists wherever the opportunity came up. And eventually I went back to University to study nutrition science part-time, which has taken longer than I would like, but I amn now super close to finishing.
What I kept coming back to through all of it was how many athletes train hard and leave performance on the table because their nutrition is not supporting what they are doing in the gym. And how much changes when it does.
What I see on the gym floor
We see it regularly at MWBC. Athletes who are doing everything right in their training and missing the piece that moves the needle fastest on their recovery and their output.
You run out of steam halfway through a session and write it off as a bad day. You eat before you train because you know you are supposed to, but you lift feeling full and sluggish.
Or you have been under-eating for long enough that the fatigue just feels like your baseline now, and it has not occurred to you that food might be the variable worth looking at.
This is not about a complete overhaul. Most people do not need that. They need someone who understands how they train to help them make sense of what they are currently doing and point them in the right direction.
What the session looks like
I am now offering 1:1 nutrition coaching sessions at MWBC, available to current members.
The session runs for 1 hour. We start with an audit of what you are currently eating and how your habits support your training right now.
From there we look at how nutrition for general health and athletic function actually works, how to fuel around your sessions specifically, what to eat before you train, whether intra-session fuel is worth thinking about in your case, and how to recover properly afterward.
By the end of the hour you will have a practical strategy built around your habits and your training demands. Something you can put into place the same week.
Sessions are $90. Optional 30-minute follow-up sessions are also available for members who want to check back in after making changes.
If I think you would be better supported by an Accredited Practising Dietitian, I will let you know at the time of booking and point you in the right direction.
Ready to book?
Sessions are available in person at the gym or online via Zoom.
[Book your nutrition session here]
—MWBC Coaching Team
