Teaming Up: Tailoring Nutrition to Optimize Youth Athletic Performance

This product is free for those who attended FNCE^® 2018.

All growing teenagers need enough nourishment for proper growth, development and health; youth athletes simply need more. The additional nutrition that is recommended for young athletes should specifically support the training plan of the athlete, yet many dietitians are not familiar with current developmental training models. In this presentation, a strength and conditioning coach and a dietitian team up to present how to tailor the nutrition plan to the training plan. The session will start with Jeremy Hoy, a strength and conditioning coach, sharing the developmental training models being implemented by organizations, such as USA Hockey, to match physical maturation stages with physical literacies and skills. It will be followed by Heather Mangieri, a registered dietitian, sharing strategies on how to tailor the nutrition plan to specifically support that training, while still considering the physical, psychological, emotional and social needs of developing athletes.

CPEU: 1.5
CPE Level: 2
Learning Codes: 3020, 4170, 4180

Learning Objectives

• Discuss the current training model being used by U.S.A. Hockey to develop young athletes.
• Tailor their interviews, counseling styles and sports nutrition plans to meet the developmental age and unique training plan of young athletes.
• Share proven, practical pointers for breaking down the barriers and challenges youth athletes face in putting a sports nutrition plan into practice.

Speaker

• Heather Mangieri, MS, RDN, CSSD, LDN

Moderator

• Jill Castle, MS, RDN