Nutrition Coaching for Athletes Course 2

How to Create Personalized Nutrition Programs for Athletes

This course removes the guesswork of personalizing nutrition for your athletes — 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 system and a clear, repeatable process for addressing the shared concerns of all your active clients while also creating unique plans
  • Use expert tools and assessments for meal planning, supplements, hydration protocols, and more
  • Learn the intangible and practical aspects of successful nutrition coaching so you can communicate action plans and get buy-in from clients, coaches, team management, and others
  • Earn Continuing Education Credits (CECs)
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WHO IT’S FOR

Nutrition professionals who want to further develop their coaching skills—along with those who simply want a deeper dive into this topic.

COURSE LENGTH

This course is entirely self-paced, and the material can be covered in detail in about 12-18 total hours.

FORMAT

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

100% GUARANTEE

Try the entire course for 45 days. If you don’t love it, let us know and we’ll give you all your money back.

You may coach clients who seem similar...

Like a team made up of players of the same age, sex, and competition level.

But with careful observation and good conversations, you’ll start to notice each player is vastly different—and diverse people may need diverse diets.

This means a big part of your job as a coach is personalizing programs to consider your clients’ unique needs.

But with so many potential factors that a coach could consider—personalization can feel overwhelming…

How do you know what matters?
How do you know when it matters?
How do you know what to do first? 

The good news is we’ve got your back.

In How to Create Personalized Nutrition Programs for Athletes, we’ll go beyond theory and teach you how to personalize for performance through a logical, repeatable process that’s client-centered, uses systematic decision making, and is science-backed.

When you can think and coach in more sophisticated, nuanced ways, addressing what your clients really need in their messy, complex lives:

  • You’ll create better, more effective nutrition coaching programs
  • Your clients will be more likely to actually follow your programs
  • Your clients will then get better results—whether that’s winning their competition or just winning life

This course gives you the tools, techniques, and advanced coaching skills to do just that.

What you’ll learn in How to Create Personalized Nutrition Programs for Athletes

Personalize your plans beyond food with practical thinking, reasoning, coaching, and communication skills that help your athletes hit their performance goals.

Help your athlete clients clarify and develop their performance and lifestyle goalsmaking you a go-to advisor and nutrition expert.


Effective nutrition and lifestyle practices that sustainably boost your athletes’ performance, results, and recovery.

Create programs that work without getting paralyzed by seeking “perfect precision” in your plans.


Deepen your understanding of the biopsychosocial factors (e.g., cultural influences, lifestyle, stress) that make athletes unique and how they affect nutrition coaching.

A step-by-step repeatable process for putting your new knowledge into a clear, easy-to-communicate plan for both individual & team sport athletes.


Practice client-centered coaching techniques with confidence and design robust action plans based on those techniques.

Help your clients feel like you “get them,” which improves your coaching relationship and their belief in your coaching program.

How the course works

How to Create Personalized Nutrition Programs for Athletes is a self-paced, digital course that gives you advanced training, tools, and techniques to build practical, personalized nutrition plans that work.

The three expertly crafted units go beyond theory to share our direct experience working with thousands of high-performing movers.

Here’s an overview of what’s included:

Unit 1:
Personalizing for performance

Estimated learning time: 4-6 hrs

You’ll get the building blocks for personalizing an action plan for any athlete. In this Unit, you’ll learn to balance details with the “big picture” and explore crucial coaching skills, such as:

  • Thinking systematically, planning, and prioritizing
  • Individualizing without getting lost in details
  • Understanding the most critical biopsychosocial factors for your active clients
  • Clearly communicating your coaching plans

Unit 2:
The science of personalized programming

Estimated learning time: 4-6 hrs

In Unit 2, we’ll review evidence-based practice and examine which nutritional options are best supported by research and experience. You’ll get tools and techniques to:

  • Gather and assess relevant data based on your client’s goals
  • Deeply understand what makes your client unique
  • Help you understand which nutritional recommendations will help your clients perform and recover their best and why

We’ll help you apply these skills as you practice the first two steps of PN’s 6-step coaching process.

Unit 3:
Building a plan and taking action

Estimated learning time: 4-6 hrs

Unit 3 moves you from concept to strategy, tactics, and execution of an appropriate action plan for any given client.

  • Effectively collaborate with a client to develop a plan using client-centered coaching and effective communication best practices
  • Create useful metrics for progress
  • Practice using feedback loops and outcome-based decision making

Create unique nutrition programs that work —
for athletes of all levels

Overcome personalization overwhelm with a clear, repeatable process to tackle standard concerns and individual needs in your nutrition plans.

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What’s included in How to Create Personalized Nutrition Programs for Athletes?

40+ downloadable resources.

Get exclusive access to PN client coaching resources, including assessment and planning forms, such as Calculating Macros and Carbohydrate Fueling Strategies for Athletes. Plus, worksheets and cheat sheets to help clients identify when things are going well, build momentum, and shift gears when needed.

PN Nutrition Calculator – Pro Edition

This supercharged version of the PN Nutrition Calculator gives you customization options, so you can see both the “big picture” and the granular details of your client’s eating plan—giving you the ability to coach at the highest possible level.

Apply this course towards an Advanced Certificate in Nutrition Coaching for Athletes.

This is one of three required courses that make up our Specialist in Nutrition Coaching for Athletes certificate. Take any of the courses as a standalone. Or take all three to get the certificate as a way to showcase your expertise and stand out from the crowd.

Real-world case studies.

Drawing on our experience with over 100,000 coaching clients, we’ll share plenty of real-world, real-people applications of coaching concepts through videos and case study activities throughout the course.

Study at your own pace, anywhere.

All of the course materials are delivered digitally so that you can work through the course at your own speed, from anywhere in the world.

Use this course to earn CECs.

How to Create Personalized Nutrition Programs for Athletes qualifies for continuing education credits with the following organizations: ACE, AFAA, CPTN, NASM, ISSA, NBHWC, REPs NZ and UKIHCA.

Why learn with Precision Nutrition?

Here are just a few reasons…

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 was recently 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 coach nutrition from the best in the field, you’ve come to the right place.

Pricing

Get instant access to the How to Create Personalized Nutrition Programs for Athletes digital course materials for only $349.

This course gives you a step-by-step, repeatable process to build custom nutrition plans that work, regardless of your clients’ needs or level of play.

How to Create Personalized Nutrition Programs for Athletes
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How to Create Personalized Nutrition Programs for Athletes
$ 349 USD
ONE-TIME PAYMENT
START THE COURSE NOW

45-day money-back guarantee.

Frequently Asked Questions

Create unique nutrition programs that work —
for athletes of all levels

Overcome personalization overwhelm with a clear, repeatable process to tackle standard concerns and individual needs in your nutrition plans.

START THE COURSE NOW