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Sports Nutrition
Good nutrition is essential to perform at your best. It can help to delay fatigue, improve skill and concentration and prevent injury and illness. Good nutrition is essential to help you train, and recover from training and to help you compete and keep on competing.
Sabrina is eager to assist your team, or GAA club reach its peak performance. Nutritional Concepts provides up-to-date scientific based sports nutrition advice to suit their specific training needs. Nutritional Concepts can provide up-to-date scientific based sports nutrition education to clubs, teams and coaches, sports specific. Advice throughout the season includes; events preparation, training diets, information on sports drinks and hydration.
Nutritional Concepts aims to meet athletes and sportspeoples needs for energy and nutrition in order to:
- Increase physical capacity
- Improve performance in training and competition
- Improve the effect of training sessions
- Reduce the effect of over training
- Improve the immune system and increase resistance to illness
- Improve the ability to concentrate
Teams
To enhance and support the team environment, Nutritional Concepts can cater for your elite down to your developmental players. Group education and skill development sessions may involve cooking, supermarket shopping, and hydration assessments. Anthropometrical assessments can be undertaken on a regular basis to ensure the goals set by players and coaches alike are being met. Players will be assessed as to their nutritional intake and provided with ongoing support to enhance their adaptations to training and maximise their performance at each and every training session and game. Nutritional Concepts role within the team goes well beyond the individual players.
Individuals
Individual athletes have their own specific goals, related to both performance and health. Nutritional Concepts can help you to achieve those goals faster and more effectively. We understand how time can be precious, and hours labouring in the kitchen or supermarket are not viable. We will spend time with you working through changes you could implement, and help you with the practical skills you require to make these changes quickly and easily.
We also appreciate individual food preferences; so we ensure that your training and competition eating plan tastes great as well.
School Sports
At Nutritional Concepts we offer School Sports educational programmes devised to provide young athletes in the Carlow and Kilkenny areas with the knowledge and skills they will require to eat well for their sport. A one hour presentation is provided each term, including practical sessions on hydration, taste testing and cooking classes. All presentations incorporate skills such as decision making and reading and interpreting food labels. This program is easily adapted to your specific sport, age groups and the number of sessions required. The Nutritional Concepts School Sports programme can be offered on a group basis or as individual consultations to suit your needs.
One to One Appointments
Sabrina will carry out a full nutritional assessment to ascertain whether you have sufficient intake of all the essential nutrients especially energy, carbohydrate, protein, iron, antioxidants and fluid to best help you train and perform. Sabrina will devise an individual meal plan to suit your needs for training and competition. She will also measure your weight, height, % body fat and waist circumference, calculate your BMI and advise you on how best to meet your own individual weight gain or weight loss goals.
Group Sessions
Sabrina works with sports clubs providing both education sessions and workshops for players and coaches alike. Topics available include:
- The essentials of sports nutrition
- Vital hydration strategies
- Learning how to get the timing and composition right for meals and snacks before, during and after exercise
- Dietary supplements
Latest Blog Posts
We post regulary to our blog regulary to our blog with lots of nutrition tips and advice, recipes etc.
How to Eat Out Healthily on Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day might mean that there is a chance you’ll be eating out. However, eating out usually means that we have little control over how the food is prepared or how large the portion is. Unlike packaged food, foods bought from cafes, restaurants etc. don’t have to carry nutritional information and so opting for the [...]
Posted on 13 February 2012 | 3:00 pm
How to Eat Your Way to Good Skin
Golden rules to keep your skin looking youthful – the best way to do this is by choosing the right diet. Eat your 5-a-day Fruit and vegetables contain powerful antioxidants that help to protect against the cell damage caused by free radicals, which include smoking, pollution and sunlight. Vitamin C is one of the most [...]
Posted on 30 January 2012 | 3:00 pm
Good Nutrition when Planning a Pregnancy
Good nutrition is important all through life and particularly so when trying to become pregnant. It is a good idea to make any changes to your diet and fitness in plenty of time before you become pregnant (at least 3-4 months beforehand). This helps to boost your fertility and makes sure that your stores [...]
Posted on 16 January 2012 | 3:00 pm
Psychological Tricks to Keep you on your New Year Diet
So it’s the time for New Year Resolutions again! As I researched the content for the first blog of 2012 I came across this video on the BBC website and decided to share it with you all. It gives us an insight into the psychological impact of sticking to New Year Resolutions. I hope this [...]
Posted on 2 January 2012 | 3:00 pm
Healthy Eating for the Christmas Party Season
It’s the Christmas party season again! How can we avoid putting on extra weight while having a great time? The following are some holiday eating tips to help you do just that so that you can still look good and be healthy in January. Don’t go to a party hungry. We often eat [...]
Posted on 19 December 2011 | 3:00 pm
Vitamins – part 2
Vitamins regulate a variety of essential bodily functions. They are crucial in many of our metabolic processes so that we can benefit from the energy in our foods. Vitamins are also very important in helping to build our bones, teeth, skin, blood and many other vital body tissues. Vitamins are classified as either water soluble [...]
Posted on 5 December 2011 | 3:00 pm
Vitamins – part 1
Vitamins regulate a variety of essential bodily functions. They are crucial in many of our metabolic processes so that we can benefit from the energy in our foods. Vitamins are also very important in helping to build our bones, teeth, skin, blood and many other vital body tissues. Vitamins are classified as either water soluble [...]
Posted on 21 November 2011 | 3:00 pm
Calories, so what are they?
A calorie is simply the unit that we use to measure energy. All foods have a ’calorific value’ and this is simply the amount of calories (energy) that a food will supply your body when it is eaten. Food labels on packaged foods usually list the energy content in two units; one is kcals (calories) the other is in kj (joules). [...]
Posted on 7 November 2011 | 3:00 pm
Pumpkin cake
Preparation: 10 mins | Cook: 1 hour Ingredients 200g plain flour 1 ¼ teaspoons bicarbonate of soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg 255g pureed pumpkin 200g dark brown soft sugar 110ml buttermilk 1 egg 2 tablespoons butter, softened Method Preheat oven to 180°C. Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda, [...]
Posted on 24 October 2011 | 2:00 pm
College students – healthy eating tips
When you go to college or university it may be the first time you’ve lived away from home and been fully independent. To have enough energy to study and enjoy student life to the full you need to eat regularly and healthily! What does a healthy balanced diet really mean? Eat regularly and base your [...]
Posted on 10 October 2011 | 2:00 pm
About Sabrina
From Carlow, Sabrina graduated from Waterford Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in General Nursing [..]
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Nutritional Concepts aims to educate people in the Carlow and Kilkenny areas regarding diet and nutrition based on current scientific evidence. Whether someone requires specific medical advice, weight loss advice, sports nutrition or healthy eating guidelines, each person is dealt with on an individual basis.
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