Are You Following 3rd Grade Nutrition? Or Are You Eating Like A High Performance Athlete?
Learn How To Maximize Your Performance By Eating The Right Foods, In The Right Amounts, At The Right Times.
If you’re a high performance, competitive athlete, you’ll recognize the year as having three distinct phases – camp, competition season, and the off-season. And you also know that every phase of the year has its own unique training and nutritional challenges.
When it comes to nutrition, you know that:
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1. During camp, calorie needs are ridiculously high. Yet camp is also the time where body weight and body fat percent need to be shaped for the upcoming season. So there’s that delicate balance between eating for recovery and fuel while also eating for low body fat.
After all, you’ve got to recover. But you can’t get “fat.” And this balancing act isn’t always easy to manage. Certainly, just eating when you’re hungry isn’t going to cut it. So you know you’re gonna need some nutrition strategies for managing camp.
2. During the competition season, rigorous travel schedules and unpredictable meal offerings offer up a new set of challenges. You don’t want to waste all that hard work you put in during training camp with poor dietary habits on the road. But it’s often quite difficult to figure out how to balance your eating when the choices offered to you might be downright scary.
And, as a result, most athletes battle with one of two fates – the fate of mysterious weight gain during the season, or the fate of mysterious weight loss during the season. You probably know what I’m talking about here. Muscle is lost, fat is gained, and you end up a softer version of your former self. Because of this, you know that you’re gonna need some nutrition strategies for the road.
3. During the off-season, fat weight is often gained. Now, this isn’t a surprise as the off-season means a lower training volume. Combine this lower volume with an unaltered nutrition intake and you’ve got unwanted fat gain.
This ends up becoming a problem for many athletes as their return to camp means having to lose weight. And the worst time to try to “diet off” excess fat is when you’ve got a high training volume. It’s really easy to crash under these conditions so you know that you’re gonna need some nutrition strategies to manage your weight in the off-season.
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In the end, these three sets of challenges above form the basis of what I call “high level nutritional planning.” And high level nutritional planning is what I use with all of my athletes and teams.
However, before any of this high level planning is discussed, I always begin by teaching my athletes what an “athlete diet” looks like.
You see, most athletes really have no idea what they should and shouldn’t be eating. Sure, most of the athletes I work with know to avoid junk food. They also know that hydration is important, so many of them drink either water or Gatorade during training. Some even eat a few extra fruits and veggies a day.
However, most athletes think this is sports nutrition. They think these elementary nutrition steps are enough to fuel elite training and performance in the modern age of high technology training, testing, and supplementation – not to mention the modern age of designer drugs.
Yet, I’ve got to be honest here. In reality, these “good nutrition” ideas are a step behind basic – they’re primitive.
After all, little kids know which junk foods are bad for them. And little kids all drink Gatorade during soccer practice or whatever other sport they’re playing.
So, in the end, if your idea of sports nutrition is based around what 3rd graders already know, I hate to say it, but you’re way behind. You’re not eating like a high performance athlete at all.
And, chances are, your performance is suffering because of it.
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Fortunately, Cross Country Canada knows all about athlete nutrition. This organization, including gold-medalist Chandra (above), uses the Precision Nutrition system for all of its nutritional needs.
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The Time Interview
Back in 2004, I was interviewed by Time Canada for a special pre-Olympic nutrition story. And the interviewer’s thesis was – let’s just say – backwards. Basically, the article’s theme was that high performance nutrition in summer sport was benefiting from a “back to the basics” movement; a movement back to how athletes ate a decade prior.
I disagreed.
After painstakingly detailing some of the cool advances in nutritional science that I was using successfully with some of my sport teams, the interviewer insisted that “No, it seems like many nutritionists are promoting a ‘back to the basics’ philosophy.”
I asked her to clarify.
Back to the basics, to her, meant things like “drinking more fruit juice,” “having more daily servings of dairy for calcium,” “avoiding dietary supplements,” “eating more pasta,” etc.
My response: “The only nutritionists promoting these sorts of ‘back to the basics’ strategies are the ones that don’t know anything more than the basics.”
I continued: “And the truth is that these individuals aren’t fit to advise athletes competing at a level where results are paramount and technology and information lines the path to these results.”
I didn’t even make a dent. Her mind was made up.
So, as you can imagine, the interviewer doggedly stuck to her thesis, went ahead and found a few registered dietitians to support the “back to the basics” thesis, largely ignored my advice and commentary, and ran the article to support this ridiculous idea.
It’s a shame. With all the great, high performance nutrition information available to athletes today, why is the media wasting their time with dated nonsense written up by journalists and inexperienced dietitians?
Your guess is as good as mine.
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The Toronto Maple Leafs don’t buy into this “back to the basics” stuff. These athletes, including all-star Mats (above), get turned on to Precision Nutrition by their head strength coach, Matt Nichol.
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Advanced Athlete Nutrition
So, at this point you’re probably wondering what type of things my athletes are doing that the “back to the basics folks” aren’t. Well, there are alot of them – too many to list in this short article.
However, let me list just a few of the principles that you can apply immediately to make a huge difference in your body composition and your performance.
*Nutrient Timing – this is the science of how proteins, carbohydrates, and fats are processed differently in the morning vs. the evening; before the workout vs. after the workout. If you’re not using the princiles of Nutrition Timing, your recovery and training adaptation may be suffering.
*Calorie Partitioning – this is the science of how the calories you eat are distributed on your body. You see, whenever you eat food, those calories can either be burned for fuel, stored as fat, or directed toward muscle recovery. And knowing how to better control this process with your food and supplement intake can go a long way toward improving both your body comp and your performance.
*Peri-Workout Nutrition – this is the science of using the right combinations of nutrients before, during, and after each training session to improve during-workout performance as well as post-workout recovery.
*Inflammation Management – high performance training means inevitable muscle aches, pains, and strains. And associated with all of these is inflammation. By managing inflammation, you can keep pain at bay while speeding up your healing and return to function.
*Metabolic Stimulation – due to the high training demands of athletes, coupled with the controlled calorie intakes they often follow, the metabolism can slow down, making it hard to drop body fat. By stimulating the metabolism with targeted food and supplement intake, the metabolism can continue to race along, making body weight management problems a thing of the past.
Again, these are just five of the many strategies I teach my athletes when they begin working with myself and my Precision Nutrition team.
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Speed Skating Canada, including Cindy (above), knows all about nutrient timing, calorie partitioning, peri-workout nutrition, and more. They got turned onto the Precision Nutritionprogram by their head strength coach, Matt Jordan.
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Here’s what else my athletes learn that set them apart from the “back to the basics” folks:
• How to choose the right amount of food during every single meal to ensure that they’re not over- or under-eating.
• The 10 key, make-it-or-break-it strategies used by my teams to succeed on the road.
• How to eat right for their body type, whether they’re tall and thin, short and stocky, or somewhere in between. (Note: this is advanced stuff that has nothing to do with their “metabolic type” or “blood type”).
• The one drink they can have with each meal to control blood sugar and improve overall health big-time.
• The top strategy that allows them to cheat on their diets without ruining their progress.
• The two nutrients they can eat after exercising to dramatically increase recovery and training adaptation.
• The 30 minute hassle-free morning ritual that will guarantee their nutritional success and keep temptations at bay.
• The one nutrient that can boost their metabolism by over 400 calories a day while increasing the amount of fat they burn and the amount of carbohydrate they store.
• How to use the principle of nutrient timing to ensure that their bodies feed the muscle while starving the fat.
• How to make a super-healthy meal in less than 3 minutes and stay satisfied for hours.
• The 3 strategies for measuring their success when others can only guess about whether or not their program is working.
• The food they can eat 30 minutes before a meal to reduce their unconscious junk food cravings
• The 90 minute weekly ritual that will ensure that they’re 100% prepared for every training week.
• And much more…
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The athletes of Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton, including Pierre and Lacelles (above), know all about high level sports nutrition. I’ve been directing their sports nutrition program for the last 2 years.
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At this point you’re likely wondering how I communicate all this great information to my athletes. Well, this is where the Precision Nutrition system enters the picture.
Enter Precision Nutrition.
I’ve spent a lifetime studying nutrition. I’ve logged thousands of hours learning and teaching in the classroom and experimenting in the research lab, and thousands more applying it all in the real world – from the highest levels of elite athletics right down to the trenches in the local gym.
I’ve tried everything known to man to get better results out of my clients. I’ve made more errors than I care to remember. In fact, I know more about what doesn’t work than anyone else I’ve ever met. And the funny thing about knowing what doesn’t work is that it’s the surest way to figuring out what does.
From that knowledge and experience, I’ve created a complete system containing everything you need to know about nutrition to make dramatic, rapid changes.
And this program is called Precision Nutrition.
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Introducing Precision Nutrition, the nutrition system used by Dr. John Berardi’s personal clients to build healthy, lean, muscular, high-performance physiques – in record time.
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Precision Nutrition is what works, pure and simple. Precision Nutrition is a system designed with one single purpose: to turn research into results.
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The Texas Longhorns know that Precision Nutrition works. They’ve used it to produce athletic success.
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“Is Precision Nutrition a Book? A Video? What do I get?”
In picking up a copy of Precision Nutrition, you get, mailed to your doorstep:
The NEW Introduction & Success Guide
Before beginning any nutrition plan, whether it’s a lifestyle-based plan like Precision Nutrition or a quick-fix, flavor of the month program like those you see in the media every day, it’s important to start off on the right foot – with the right mindset.
In this brand new introductory guide to Precision Nutrition we provide an overview of the program and present 10 success strategies guaranteed to help you stick with the plan.
These strategies, taken directly from those who have been successful following the PN program, will be your “secret weapon” in your quest to change your body and change your life.
The Diet Guide
This is your comprehensive guide to diet and nutrition. Put aside all the tips, tricks and gimmicks you’ve heard over the years. Forget everything you’ve been told about nutrition and learn the right information from scratch – in one complete, beginning-to-end system that fills in the blanks and puts everything into proper perspective.
With the Precision Nutrition Diet Guide, everything is covered, from food selection to meal timing to nutrition program design. You will learn everything you need to know to lose fat or gain muscle. You’ll set your goal in the beginning, and you’ll learn exactly what to do to achieve it.
Everything is organized according to it’s importance in the grand scheme of things, and nothing is left to chance. You will walk away knowing exactly what you need to do to build the body you want.
Quick Start Guide
Rapid body comp change CAN happen – if you get all the right information, and put it to use immediately. That’s what the Quick Start Guide is for.
I’ll show you the exact steps that you need to take right away if you’re going to succeed. Every step is laid out in detail, and in less than 45 minutes you will have done precisely what most people never think to do – the critical steps that make all the difference.
The Super Shake Guide
You’re on the go all day long. Let’s face it, sometimes things just don’t go right, and you’re stuck without a decent meal. But what do you do then? Blow your plan? Those cheats and missed meals add up quickly, and conspire to destroy your hard-earned progress. Well, not any more. Enter the Super Shake.Filled with ample amounts of high-quality protein, essential fatty acids and micronutrition, the Super Shake will ensure you never lack great nutrition, no matter where you are or how much time you have. It simply blows the off-the-shelf “meal replacements” out of the water – and you can make it yourself, cheaply and quickly. In the Super Shake Guide, I’ll show you exactly how to make them, I’ll show you how to customize them for your body type and your goals, and I’ll provide you with several Super Shake recipes to get you started.
5-Minute Meals
You’ve got a life. You’ve got a job, a family, a girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse, hobbies or school or other time commitments. What you don’t have is endless time for meal preparation. But guess what? Without that meal preparation, you’re pretty much doomed to body comp hell.
With the 5-Minute Meals Guide, however, consider it taken care of. You’ll have a complete list of dozens of delicious, perfect Precision Nutrition meals that can be made in under five minutes. Great nutrition has never been this convenient.
The NEW Individualization Guide
Clipping generic, cookie cutter plans from magazines will only lead to disappointment, for one simple reason: as your body changes, your needs change, and so your nutrition plan must change too. If you’re not constantly tweaking your plan to fit your ever-changing nutritional needs, you’re guaranteed to stagnate.
There is only one sure-fire way to continue to get results, and that is to tailor your diet specifically to your body, your goals and the results you’ve gotten in the past. So how do you know how your body differs from others? And once you know, what do you do about it? How do you know what changes to make? I’ve put the answers in the newest edition of the Individualization Guide, a step-by-step guide to a complex subject. I’ve made it easy to customize your diet for your specific needs – and you’ll be amazed at the results.
The NEW MeasurementGuide
At Precision Nutrition, we have a battery of assessments, questionnaires and tests that our clients undergo regularly. In fact, we’ve come up with a mix of assessments that cover nearly every facet of health and human performance.
Coupled with the Precision Nutrition system, these assessments allow us to get rapid results with clients. In fact, I’ve done informal testing indicating that regular assessments like these can speed up progress by 50-75% — even using the same exercise and nutrition program.
And in this new measurement guide I’ll teach you exactly what to assess and how often – from body measurements to performance testing to blood work. Remember, if you’re not assessing, you’re guessing.
The Gourmet Nutrition Cookbook
This is no ordinary cookbook. It’s an assault on nutrition-poor, bad-tasting food everywhere. I challenged my good friend and healthy cooking master craftsman Dr. John K. Williams to come up with 100 gourmet-quality recipes that meet all of my nutritional requirements for body composition, health and performance, and he came through big-time.
Complete with everything from 5-star meals that will impress even the most jaded food critic, to quick fixes that will get the job done on the go, plus a section on general cooking instruction and tips, this book will forever change the way you think about nutrition. You’ll finally eat delicious meals that make you look and feel better, rather than worse.
PLUS:
The Optional Precision Nutrition Online Resource Library
The content outlined below is hosted online as part of the Precision Nutrition Online Resource Library, a new feature of the PN member’s-only site.
This library includes: exercise programs from at least 10 of the world’s top exercise coaches, additional e-books, audio interviews, supplemental video content, and a host of software and web-based tools including our Online Calorie Estimator, Exercise Database and more.
Plus, it includes access to our highly acclaimed support forum.
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“Frankly, the forum is AMAZING. With the selection of blogs (with some familiar, respected names), available e-books, and discussion, let’s just say that you’re going to have a hard time getting rid of me.”
- Sean A.
“I have been so impressed at the wealth of info available on this forum. Really, it is just a relief to know that there are so many knowledgeable, professional people that are willing to answer my questions. (about nutrition, health, training, etc – anything!) Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.”
- Natalie T.
“There is a lot of respect and professionalism – and you don’t see that much on the internet. Also, I like that Dr. Berardi and the other experts never hesitate to share their expertise with us while keeping our best interests in mind. Finally, in looking at all the PhDs, MDs, and other experts added, there’s so much knowledge being shared – stuff you just cant get anywhere else.”
- Vincent J.
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The Precision Nutrition Audio Series
Different people learn different ways. Some by reading, some by demonstration, and some by listening. For those in the latter group, I’ve created the Precision Nutrition Audio Series, a collection of audio segments covering the 10 Habits of Good Nutrition, the Nutrition Cheat Sheet, the Gourmet Nutrition Cooking Tips and the Super Shake. Put them on your MP3 player or listen to them in your car.
Segment 1: The 10 Habits.
The 10 Habits are my ten rules of good nutrition. In this segment I go into detail: what the 10 Habits are, why they’re so important, and most of all, how to actually use them day to day. I’ll teach you how to make the right nutrition decisions, instantaneously and effortlessly. I’ll share the exact mental checklist you must go through every time you sit down to eat. Learn this material and you’ll fast-track to a superior body.
Segment 2: Meal Preparation.
In segment 2, Dr. John Williams and I discuss cooking tips and strategies for easy, great tasting meals that fit the Precision Nutrition goals: optimal body composition, health and performance. We talk about everything from spices to cooking utensils, from making fast and easy meals to cooking uncommon foods for great results. And for those times when you can’t sit down to make a meal, I go over the principles behind the Super Shake, why it’s important, and how to make one for yourself.
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The No Nonsense Nutrition Video Series
Want even more? How about our best-selling No Nonsense Nutrition video series, which will teach you absolutely everything you need to know about nutrition, and nothing you don’t. No confusion, no gimmicks – just principles, plans and results. Here’s how it breaks down:
Segment 1: The Foundation
- The Right Mindset
- Learn! Know the right info, how to implement it and how to internalize it
- Use the right map! Are you headed in the right direction?
- Raise your standards!
- Start today!
- The Right Information
- Avoid falling victim to the “expert problem”
- The relationship between eating for health and eating for optimal body composition
- Health objectives
- Body composition objectives
- The 7 habits of highly effective nutrition plans
- The Right Plan
- Creating a meal plan based on the 7 habits
- When the one-size fits all works
- Shopping successfully
- Planning meals successfully
- Eating successfully
- The First Supper
- Bonus Segments:
- Grocery Store: Putting the rules into practice
- Kitchen: The daily 30 minute cooking routine
Segment 2: Individualization
- Introduction
- The fad of individualization
- What does true individualization mean?
- From one size fits all to tailoring your program
- Your Most Important Concern
- The “Ingenuity Gap”
- Adopting a problem solving mind
- Finding “AND” solutions
- Nutrition AND your personal lifestyle
- Defending against “EITHER/OR”
- The Details of Nutritional Individualization
- Demystifying program design
- The decision making procedures we use every day
- The three criterion for program design
- Achieving body composition results
- Bonus Segments:
- Roundtable: Elaborating on the “No Nonsense” principles
- Human Performance Lab: A tour of the facilities
Note: All of the online resources above are available to you free for 45 days.
“Are the PN manuals e-books? Do I download them?”
No, these are NOT e-books. While I have released books in the past as downloadable PDF e-books, that’s not what the Precision Nutrition guides are.
The Precision Nutrition guidebooks above are real, tangible products that will be sealed and delivered to your door. It comes in one box containing print versions of all 7 guides and the Gourmet Nutrition Cookbook.
“Is Precision Nutrition for me?”
The easiest way to describe who Precision Nutrition is for is to tell you who it ISN’T for.
Precision Nutrition is not for people who already have the bodies they want. If you’ve already got the results you desire, look exactly the way you want to look, and are at the top of your competitive game, your nutrition is sufficient to achieve at least that much. As I said, Precision Nutrition is a results-based program, and if you already got it, flaunt it. But if you think there’s room for improvement to your health, performance or even to the way you look, read on.
Precision Nutrition is also not for people who are just looking for academic educational material. I’ve written plenty of that (including published studies based on my PhD dissertation, numerous nutrition chapters for exercise science textbooks, etc.), and this is something else altogether. Precision Nutrition is a practical, step-by-step system to get real-life results, not a textbook to teach nutritional biochemistry.
BUT, if you’re not yet getting the results you want – if you’re not recovering properly, if you can’t control your body weight during your competitive season, if you’re struggling with your blood work, or if you just want to make sure your nutrition is “handled” professionally and properly – than Precision Nutrition is definitely, certainly, and absolutely for you.
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Canoe/Kayak Canada handled their nutrition by bringing on Dr Berardi and the Precision Nutrition program.
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“But I think my nutrition is already pretty good – do I still need this?”
Well, first of all, how do you know your nutrition plan is good?
Because you “try to eat healthy?” Because you think your diet is low-carb, or high-carb, or low-fat or high-fat, or low-protein or high-protein or high in fiber? Because it looks good on paper? Or because it meets some other criteria for “pretty good nutrition” that I don’t know about?
Let me lay this out in the clearest, most concise way I know how . . .
If you don’t already have the body you want, then your nutrition plan is not good enough.
Listen, the only one way to determine whether your nutrition plan is any good is look at your results. That’s the plain truth. I don’t care if your plan meets so-and-so’s guidelines, or is “low-carb” or contains enough vitamin C or whatever the latest B.S. indicator of good nutrition is in the popular press.
There is only one rule: what works is good; what doesn’t is not. That’s the only rule I live by.
Precision Nutrition is entirely outcome-based – it’s about getting results and nothing else. So if you want to know whether Precision Nutrition is right for you, then just ask yourself this question:
“Do I have the body I really, truly want?”
Answer it honestly – don’t worry, no one is listening.
If the answer is yes, then great.
But if you answered no – “in all honesty, I don’t yet have the body I really want” – then I can say without the slightest hesitation that Precision Nutrition is exactly what you need. Optimizing your nutrition plan is the true secret to transforming your body – and Precision Nutrition shows you exactly how to do it.
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Alpine Canada realized they needed some help so they brought on Dr Berardi and the Precision Nutrition program.
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“What if I need more help?”
I can assure you that you almost certainly WILL need more help. You will need support. You will need clarification. You will have questions.
I’ve been doing this long enough now to know what most of those questions will be, and I’ve answered all of the basic ones and many of the advanced ones in the Precision Nutrition system itself.
For those that aren’t answered there, I’ve provided you with a 45 day membership to our private, members-only site, where you’ll be able to ask questions and discuss all things nutrition and fitness with our Precision Nutrition coaches and the thousands of members already online from all around the world.
45 Day Free Membership to the private Precision Nutrition Forum? Check.
The private, members-only site is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. On top of the discussion forums, you’ll find great articles, free Precision Nutrition add-on manuals (all located in our Online Resource Library), fully compatible exercise programs designed by our coaches, and a number of helpful tools like the online Calorie Calculator. Hundreds of reader-submitted recipes are online, complementing the new Gourmet Nutrition meals posted by our chefs. And even better, new stuff is added every day.
As the saying goes, you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. So who are those people, and what influence are they having on you?
Your social support system (or lack thereof) will heavily affect your success. The Precision Nutrition forum provides you the perfect opportunity to supplement your social circle with thousands of like-minded people from around the globe, all pursuing the same goals as you, all facing the same challenges, all willing to help.
With Precision Nutrition, we provide the social support you need, so you can turn that average into something extraordinary.
“OK, so what does Precision Nutrition cost?”
Let me warn you: if you’re looking for a casual read, a celebrity diet, a tip here and there, or something to sit on the coffee table, I strongly recommend you look elsewhere.
But if you’ve finally decided it’s time to get serious about building the body you’ve always wanted, you’re in the right place.
Simply put, Precision Nutrition is a no-nonsense approach to getting results, based on the latest research and my years of experience in the field. It’s a complete system, built for one purpose only: to give you precise control over your body through nutrition. There is nothing else like it.
To give you a comparison: working with me directly to learn how to do this costs a minimum of $1500 and takes at least four months. It’s the surest way to transform your body, as my coaches and I will cover every base and save you from your mistakes before they happen. But obviously, not everyone can spend that kind of money.
So I designed Precision Nutrition to take everything you would learn working with us directly over a four-month period and condense it into one complete system that covers all contingencies. And for one-tenth of the price.
The Precision Nutrition system, complete with all 7 guides, the Gourmet Nutrition cookbook, and the Precision Nutrition 45 day All-Access Online Membership costs only $147. For less than it costs for a single hour of my time, and less than three hours with a personal trainer, you get the nutrition knowledge you need for a lifetime in a better body.
“Is it in stock? When will it ship?”
All orders are shipping out of our warehouse in Indiana within 2 business days.
Shipments within the US and Canada are sent via UPS Ground; international customers via US Postal Service. And all orders are trackable.
Order Precision Nutrition now and get $50 off!
If you’re serious about learning, once and for all, what optimal nutrition can do to transform your body, I want to put Precision Nutrition in your hands.
Here’s the deal: order Precision Nutrition now and I’ll give you the complete system for just $97.
I’m not kidding. You get a full $50 off!
Try Risk-Free for 45 Days!
I want to give you a chance to try Precision Nutrition risk-free. I want you to see for yourself how powerful it is.
Precision Nutrition will teach you EVERYTHING you need to know to get the body you want. I’m giving you 45 days to read the material, review the audio and video content, and use the Online Resource Library. Of course, feel free to browse the private site, ask questions, and talk to fellow members.
If after 45 days you feel that you still don’t know EXACTLY what to do, and EXACTLY how to do it, I’ll give you every cent back. It’s that simple.
You have absolutely nothing to lose, and everything to gain.
Don’t procrastinate, don’t hesitate. Just take action. You can build the body you never thought you could have – if you make the choice to begin right now.
Order Precision Nutrition Now!
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Best,
John M. Berardi, PhD, CSCS
PS: Here are a few more stories from from some of our Precision Nutrition athletes:
“I definitely came to the table with a solid background and 2 years of experience, but after I decided to work on my own for a year, it was too much for me…I wanted to find an expert who could take me to the next level as well as provide some accountability/support. Working with the Precision Nutrition team was the best choice I could have made!”
- Valerie Waugaman
IFBB Professional Figure Competitor and Precision Nutrition Athlete
“A lot of high performance athletes struggle with nutrition. They struggle with basic things like building meals, and knowing how to eat to maximize recovery from training. They also need to learn about cutting edge sport nutrition information.
In my opinion, most sport nutritionists provide the basics and gloss over most of the areas that are more cutting edge. Yet I also believe that they aren’t nearly detailed enough in their nutritional prescription for even the basics, such as building meals, nutrient timing, and more.
And that’s why I sought out Precision Nutrition. Dr Berardi does a good job of blending scientific knowledge with practical tools and ideas that really have a positive impact. I judge the value of a system based on the results that are obtained- Precision Nutrition achieves results.”
- Matt Jordan
Head Strength Coach, Speed Skating Canada
“After a couple of weeks on the PN program, the routine became simple, I had lots of energy, and I enjoyed the high quality food. It wasn’t hard to follow the program; it became part of my routine. And throughout, I felt more like an athlete. We take our bodies to greater extremes than the average person; therefore we to be in top condition so we can go to those extremes.
In the first 8 weeks of the program I dropped to 125 pounds with around 15% body fat. I’m still amazed that I lost 10 lbs and 6.5% body fat in just 2 months.”
- Alice Graham
Canadian Jr National Figure Skating Medalist
“Our athletes have benefitted with increased daily energy, optimal body composition, and better overall health. Even tired athletes are in better moods when eating according to the PN system. I can honestly say that with PN we have reached our nutritional goals.”
- Mike Cavilere
Assistant Coach, Cross Country Canada
“A lot of different things haven’t worked for me in the past. So I thought that this was going to be grueling and that my nutritionist would be disappointed again. I didn’t want to fail. But instead, by following the program, every week got bit better. It was a welcome change to how I was feeling with other plans.
My advice to anyone considering the PN system is this: If you’re worried about failing, don’t be. John’s team is extremely supportive and they make it easier than you can imagine.”
- Kerry Simpson
Canadian National Team Speed Skater
“As a professional football player, with the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL, I sincerely credit my being here to the Precision Nutrition system. JB and his team taught me what I needed to know to go from a 160lb university athlete to a 195lb professional athlete.”
- Kris Aiken
Pro Football Athlete, CFL
“PN has provided me with a community that shares a common interest, and understanding of this lifestyle where I can feel comfortable talking about the best protein powders, whether spinach is best raw or cooked and if energy systems are better on the bike or sprinting…
Not only will I get answers I am looking for or be able to generate meaningful discussions, I am validated, understood and appreciated for who I am and what I’m about.”
- Krista Schaus
Canadian Champion Powerlifter
PPS: You can become another Precision Nutrition athlete success story by getting started today!