ADVANCED CERTIFICATE

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

$697 USD

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

You’ll learn a new approach to sports nutrition based on our decades of experience successfully coaching elite athletes and active people to perform better and hit personal records, while also living more balanced and fulfilling lives.

WHO IT’S FOR

Nutrition professionals and health coaches who want to develop their coaching skills—along with those who want to learn how to maximize nutritional programming in their own active lives.

HOW LONG IT TAKES

The three courses in this Advanced Certificate can be covered in detail in about 36-54 hours total—completely at your own pace, in a way that fits your schedule (whether that’s one week of intense studying, or a month of studying for a couple hours on weekends).

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HOW YOU LEARN

100% online. Access the course materials from any device, at any time, through the online Precision Nutrition dashboard.

WHY LEARN WITH PN

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.) 

100% GUARANTEED

45-day money back guarantee: If you don’t love it, let us know and we’ll give you all your money back.

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.

When you become a Specialist in Nutrition Coaching for Athletes, you’ll…

Have the confidence to assess, plan for, monitor, and evaluate athletes and serious exercisers to help them meet their activity demands

Recognize how your clients’ mental, emotional, and relational demands impact your ability to coach them successfully

Develop “movement nutrition” programs that set you apart from other “just make a meal plan” coaching approaches

Deepen your practice with real-world coaching strategies and techniques developed by athletes for athletes

Learn the importance of going beyond terms like “athletes” or “exercisers” to better understand and help each client as an individual

Find new ways to understand a client’s movement experiences and patterns, which then affect their nutritional goals, needs, and priorities

Know how to work with other performance personnel—like coaches & team managers—to improve buy-in of your nutrition plans

Bring your clients’ awareness to factors that may be limiting their progress as well as their quality of life

Courses Included in the Certificate

Course 1

How to Coach an Athlete

$349 USD

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)
Course 2

How to Create Personalized Nutrition Programs for Athletes

$349 USD

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)
Course 3

How to Solve Common Nutrition Challenges for Athletes

$349 USD

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)
Take all 3 courses and save $350!

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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Pricing

Save $350 when you enroll in the Advanced Certificate (versus taking the courses at $349 USD each).

Become a specialist

One time payment to get all the courses included in the Advanced Certificate.
$697 USD

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Our Guarantee

Lots of companies guarantee their products. We guarantee our services, too.
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 Coaching Athlete Nutrition 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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