Sports Nutrition and Athletic Performance

Enhance your energy, strength, and stamina with targeted sports and performance nutrition.

Level up your training with the power of nutrition.

For many athletes, training is (rightly so) the primary focus. However, nutrition plays a powerful role in sports performance, and is under-utilized by many athletes.

Reaching peak sports performance requires not just a great training plan, but also a great nutrition plan. Our nutrition practitioners help you develop a strategic sports wellness plan to maximize your performance and minimize your risk of injury.

Our Approach to Better Sports Performance

Thrive takes the confusion out of finding your solution, by combining the best of primary care and powerfully effective functional nutrition therapy to address your athletic concerns from the root.

Nutrition Therapy

We provide specific meal plans that optimize your energy intake, meal timing recommendations, a hydration plan, and micronutrient calculations.

Functional Supplements

A strategic and individualized supplement protocol helps enhance your energy naturally, reduce inflammation, and support tissue healing.

Lifestyle Support

Beyond diet, we help you create habits that support your healing and boost performance, such as quality sleep and stress management.

Nutrition Solutions for Athletes

– Crossfit

– Cycling

– Adding Lean Mass & Weight Gain

– Running

– Power Lifting

– Olympic Lifting

– Golf and Tennis

– Marathon and Triathlon Training

– Swimming

Our practitioners are experts in sports performance.

Fueling your body is half the battle when it comes to an effective training protocol. But since most athletes require highly individualized and sport-specific nutrition plan, it can be hard to balance on your own.

Our certified nutrition team takes the guesswork out of your nutrition plan to optimize your sports performance. We help you optimize lean mass, achieve the correct body composition for your sport, and avoid the dangerous under-nourishment and hormone imbalances that are common in athletes.

“Yesterday, during my workout, I had so much energy and so much more strength. I feel slimmer, flatter, less puffy, and I also don’t feel like I have to eat the stuff I am not supposed to eat. It doesn’t seem to pull me like it used to. It seems unreal.”
BETHANY P.

Ready to level-up your performance?

Thrive offers more than a “quick fix” for athletic performance – we help you strengthen from the root.

Step 1

Questions about our sports nutrition support? Contact us to discuss your goals and how we can support you.

Step 2

Complete our ‘Get Started’ form. We’ll reach out to pair you with one of our sports nutrition-specialized dietitians and to collect a detailed assessment.

Step 3

Meet with us for your initial visit. We’ll review your assessment, you’ll get several choices for first steps, and you’ll get a detailed plan with all of the info and support that you need for success.

Step 4

Complete any desired additional assessments such as functional lab testing, body composition or metabolic assessment, or blood glucose monitoring (all optional).

Step 5

If desired, get additional support with group programs or weekly email check-ins.

Step 6

Meet with us on a recurring basis to further optimize your plan, move to further stages, and eventually achieve independent wellness!

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Your sports nutrition questions, answered.

What does a typical sport performance wellness plan look like?

Each of our plans are individualized to your sport and goals, but here are some of the critical elements of an individualized sports nutrition plan include:

● Optimizing energy intake
● Specific diet plans for the quantity and quality of food based on your goals
● Specific timing of consuming carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, before and after training for a competition
● Hydration, fiber, antioxidants, nutrients, and food sourcing
● Strategic travel planning for competitions

How detailed will my meal plans be?

Timing matters when it comes to sports performance. That’s why we don’t just send you off with a list of foods to eat, but rather design strategically-timed meal plans to best support you through your training and competition schedule. Your nutrition plan will include changes for pre-competition, during-competition, and post-competition nutrition, as well as pre- and post-workout.

How do you address sports nutrition differently?

We believe food isn’t just fuel — it’s medicine. That’s why all of our athlete patients work with a licensed healthcare (Registered Dietitian) to support them in healing injuries, performing optimally, and preventing sports-related health conditions.

Why work with a professional sports nutritionist?

Often, athletes have the impression that they can eat without much planning or thought. In fact, athletes with a professional sports nutrition plan, improve performance and recovery while minimizing chance of injury. Sports nutrition is also critical for optimizing lean mass, achieving the correct body composition for sport, and avoiding dangerous hormone imbalances that are common in athletes.

These hormone imbalances are especially common in female athletes. The combination of disordered eating, amenorrhea (loss or irregular menstrual cycles), and osteoporosis is most common in sports that emphasize leanness, but these health issues can impact girls and women in any sport.

Male athletes are also not immune to the adverse health impacts of under-nutrition related to sports competition.

What does a full sports nutrition plan include?

One of the professional Sports Nutritionists on our team will tailor a diet plan to fit your needs. A professional sports nutrition plan should include:

● Energy targets
● Macronutrient calculations
● Diet quality
● Timing around training and competitions
● Recovery nutrition
● A hydration plan
● Different plans for training, competition, and rest days
● Anti-inflammatory and tissue-supporting components
● Specific meal plans and recipes, to make the plan easy to implement
● Advisement on what supplements (and amounts) to take for effectiveness and safety

Refining sports nutrition with a complete plan can make a dramatic difference when it comes to performance, recovery, and injury avoidance.

Peak performance depends on peak nutrition. Contact us to discuss how one of our Certified Sports Nutritionists can help you with a plan to optimize your sports nutrition.

FREE QUIZ

How well are you fueling for optimal performance?

We’re Now Available in Combination with Primary Care.

Nutrition shouldn’t be aside from your healthcare. Instead, access nutrition-centric healthcare: a primary team and functional dietitian combo.

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Nutrition Professionals You Can Trust

Many claim to be a nutritionist. However, only a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) meets rigorous academic requirements. This includes: Extensive clinical training, a nutrition degree from an accredited university, passing a rigorous board exam, and meeting continuing education requirements. Further, we are Licensed Registered Dietitians (LDNs) in the state of North Carolina. We are further credentialed in Integrative and Functional Nutrition. We stay informed of guidelines set by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics so we can provide our patients with expert nutrition counseling.

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