This is the ONLY comprehensive resource like this IN THE WORLD covering all things nutrition as it relates to football from a holistic and high performance perspective.
What is included:
- 266 Slides (included)
- 18 Videos
- 17.5 Hours of content covering 16 different topics
- ~300 References (included)
10+ years of experience and implementation, perspectives from high-level D1 football teams and the NFL
Real life solutions to artfully, practically, and realistically apply the science of nutrition
Stories from College Football and the NFL
What is covered:
-Time motion demands/bioenergetics
-Nutrition periodization for the entire year
- Winter Offseason
- Spring
- Summer
- Training Camp
- In-season
-Health, Stress, and Performance frameworks at each stage
-How to get everyone on the same page and maximize opportunities
-Nutrition assessment
- How to figure out what your players needs are, habits, and what they know
-Body composition assessment and frame size profiling
- How to figure out how big your players can get, how much mass their frames can hold, and what it all means
-Nutrition for body comp/weight changes
- Realistic and ideal ways for players to gain/lose weight
- 2 case studies
- The frameworks I've used to achieve this
-Nutrition for training and competition
- Guidelines and recommendations for players to consume
- Before lifts/practices/games
- During practices/games
- Breakfast/lunch/dinner
- Nutrition options provided at the facility
- Hotel/travel/gameday setup
- Sideline/halftime
- Hot/cold weather conditions
- Altitude
-Cramping
- Risk factors, assessment, what you can do
-Hydration for training and competition
- Risk factors, assessment, products to use, how to hydrate
- Before/during/after training/competition
-Recovery nutrition
- Macro/micro guidelines, functional foods, supplements
- How to optimize recovery nutrition based on periodization/goals
-Sleep
- Circadian rhythms, chrono-nutrition
- Ideal amount, sleep stages, sleep environment, sleep hygiene
- Napping
- Sleep effects on performance
- Sleep assessment
- Sleep deprivation/poor sleep, what can be done
-Nutrition and sleep
- Diet types
- Timing
- Functional foods
- Supplements
-Injury nutrition
- Injury etiology, common injuries seen in football
- Individualized testing, the big areas you are missing
- Nutrition frameworks for specific injuries
- Injury case study
- Immunity
- Inflammation
-Supplementation
- Supplementation categories
- Supplementation guidelines
- Products used/dosing
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Hi, I’m Pratik Patel, a High Performance Coach, Sports Dietitian, and Strength and Conditioning Coach
I spent the better part of a decade working in college football (Michigan State, Oregon) and the NFL (New York Giants) implementing nutrition, hydration, recovery, sleep, health, and performance optimization strategies in a variety of different roles.
My most recent role was as an Assistant Coach with the New York Giants as the Director of Performance Nutrition and Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach in charge of all things nutrition, hydration, supplementation, sleep, and recovery related to optimizing health and performance.
Being able to work in these unique roles allowed me to connect the dots between Nutrition with Strength and Conditioning, Sport Science and Performance, Recovery, and Sports Medicine and see things others weren't able to do, and maximize what Nutrition can do for football players.
Team Experience
New York Giants- Director of Performance Nutrition and Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach
University of Oregon- Director of Sports Nutrition
Michigan State University- Sports Dietitian, Performance Coach
Career Highlights
-2 Rose Bowls wins, 1 CFP National Championship appearance, 1 Cotton Bowl win, and 2 Conference Championships
-Worked with 2 NFL All-Pros, 8 Pro Bowlers, 33 NFL Draft Picks (7-1st Rounders), 1 NFL Offensive ROY, 1 Heisman Trophy Winner