Become a Specialist in Nutrition Coaching for Athletes
The Advanced Certificate in Nutrition Coaching for Athletes is essential training for anyone who coaches athletes and serious exercisers. You’ll learn the science of movement and movement nutrition, plus get the advanced training, tools, and techniques to create customized programs that help your athletic clients achieve optimal results.
- Get PN’s specialized courses on athlete nutrition in one advanced certificate
- Access next-level programming for athletes, designed by athletes
- Become a go-to nutrition coach for a broader pool of active clients
- Save $350 when you enroll in the certificate
All active people can use your nutritional support.
If you coach serious exercisers, athletes, or people with highly-active jobs, they rely on you to help them perform and recover within the constraints of their daily lives. When you can confidently coach beyond macros, meal timing, and workout schedules, you create a broader pool of clients and ultimately, better results.
Courses Included in the Certificate
How to Coach an Athlete
In this course, we go beyond traditional sports nutrition—with its almost exclusive focus on nutrients. You’ll learn the science of movement and movement nutrition, along with the lifestyle factors that are key to your athletic clients’ results.
- Help your athletes and most active clients make the changes they need to move, perform, recover, win, and thrive… for life
- Get evidence-based nutrition fundamentals developed by athletes for athletes—to confidently coach everyone from regular exercisers and weekend warriors to elite pros
- Use expert tools and assessments to create plans that consider your most active clients’ needs, goals, preferences, skills, priorities, lifestyle, and nutritional level
- Earn continuing education credits (CECs)
How to Create Personalized Nutrition Programs for Athletes
Your athletic clients rely on nutrition to help them gain their competitive edge. But with so many variables at play, personalization can be overwhelming. This second course of the digital certificate removes the guesswork—and gives you a step-by-step process to build custom plans that work, regardless of your clients’ needs or level of play.
- Get a clear, repeatable process and system for addressing the shared concerns of all your active clients while creating unique plans
- Use expert tools and assessments for meal planning, supplements, hydration protocols, and more
- Learn the more intangible and practical aspects of successful nutrition coaching so you can communicate action plans and get buy-in not only from clients but coaches, team management, and others
- Earn continuing education credits (CECs)
How to Solve Common Nutrition Challenges for Athletes
This course gives you advanced training, tools, and techniques to coach your athletic clients towards their desired results even as they encounter obstacles such as stress, recovery, energy balance, extreme environments, and the emotional demands of pro sports culture.
- Think through challenges systematically, effectively, and proactively—while remaining within your scope of practice as a nutrition coach
- Solve problems with both skill and empathy, deepening your practice with real-world coaching strategies developed by athletes for athletes
- Use expert assessments to help your clients build stronger self-belief and move towards self-empowered behaviors and mindsets
- Earn continuing education credits (CECs)
Meet the Experts Behind this Advanced Certificate
KSD
PhD
Krista Scott-Dixon is Precision Nutrition’s director of curriculum. She earned her doctorate in Women’s Studies from York University. She holds counseling certifications from George Brown College and Leading Edge Training, which is certified by the Canadian Psychological Association.
Brian St. Pierre
MS, RD, CSCS
Brian St. Pierre is the director of nutrition at Precision Nutrition, the coauthor of Precision Nutrition’s Level 1 Certification textbook, The Essentials of Nutrition and Coaching, and the mastermind behind the Precision Nutrition Calculator. He holds a master’s degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition from the University of Maine.
Adam Feit
PhD, CSCS, SCCC, PN2
Adam Feit is Precision Nutrition’s head strength and sport psychology coach. Feit earned his master’s degree in Exercise Science and Health Promotion from the California University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Exercise Science from Springfield College. He recently received his PhD in Sport and Exercise Psychology from Springfield College where he examined the use of mental skills in collegiate strength and conditioning.
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Why Learn with Precision Nutrition?
We’re the originators of behavior-change for nutrition coaching, and since 2005 we’ve used the tools, science, and systems in our courses to help over 100,000 people transform their health and fitness. (No other nutrition company in the world can say this.) That means everything you’ll learn has been proven in the real world, with real people.
We are the experts that other experts come to for help. Precision Nutrition advises organizations around the world, coaches elite athletes and sports teams, and has been featured in leading publications. There’s a reason over 2 million people come to our website every single month.
We’re the home of the world’s #1 nutrition coaching certification, with over 150,000 health and fitness professionals choosing to get certified by us.
Science-backed and peer-reviewed. Our coaching method has been validated in 3 peer-reviewed studies. This means everything you’ll learn is backed by science.
Bottom line: If you want to learn how to change human behavior from the best in the field, you’ve come to the right place.
Pricing
Save $350 when you enroll in the Advanced Certificate (versus taking the courses at $349 USD each).
Become a specialist
Our Guarantee
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Our students make a commitment to learn from us—and we make a commitment to help them become better coaches. Then our students decide for themselves: Was it worth it? If yes, they earn their credentials and head out to change people’s lives. If no, we give them a full refund.
That’s our promise. Read, learn, and test out the Advanced Certificate in Change Psychology for 45 days. If you’re not happy with what you learn, we’ll give you every penny back. We’re confident in what we do and we stand by our work.
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