Every Craig coaching programme is individually designed to meet your own exercise and nutritional needs and goals and delivered through "virtual" coaching and "in-person" instruction.
Nutritional Coaching
Craig Coaching offers Nutritional consultations with Nutritional Therapist and Functional Sports Nutrition practitioner, Ian Craig, MSc. Like the exercise training, you have the choice of attending in-person consultations or participating in our on-line system of virtual nutritional coaching.
Craig Coaching looks after the nutritional needs of individuals with a broad range of health and fitness backgrounds, ranging from elite athletes to individuals with clinical needs.
Here are a few examples of common scenarios:
- Sports-minded individuals requiring nutritional guidance before and during endurance events like the Cape Argus cycle tour, the Two Oceans ultramarathon or for the more ambitious, the Cape Epic or Ironman!
- The stressed working person who needs to lose a bit of weight and improve their cardiovascular health.
- People with health imbalances such as low energy levels, a weakened immune system, digestive complaints, sleep disturbance, female hormone problems.
1-on-1 Consultations
Exercise Physiologist, Strength & Conditioning Specialist and Nutritional Therapist, Ian Craig is available for nutritional consultation and exercise training in Cape Town, Stellenbosch and in the UK during annual trips. Depending on your goals, he can guide you through a personal training programme and support your health and performance needs with nutritional strategies.
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On-line Nutrition
Your virtual nutrition experience is administered via a sophisticated piece of Software know as Training Peaks. Just like the training application, your coach can write nutritional programmes directly into your personal calendar, which will be emailed to you on a daily basis. Your diet can also be analysed for Calorie and protein, fat and carbohydrate content.
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Nutritional Therapy
Craig Coaching uses the discipline of Nutritional Therapy to assess individual health needs and intervene using bespoke nutritional programmes and food-based supplements. Nutritional Therapy considers an individual’s ‘whole health’ with assessment of parameters such as: digestive & immune health, blood sugar regulation, adrenal (stress glands) reserve, brain chemical balance and sporting performance. The discipline is growing rapidly in Britain plus there is increasing involvement in South Africa.
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Functional Sports Nutrition
Functional Sports Nutrition (FSN) effectively combines the knowledge of two very different fields of nutrition within a sporting model: the practical, quantitative and food-based Sports Nutrition and the integrative, qualitative and body-systems approach of Nutritional Therapy. FSN recognises the bio-individual needs of each athlete and the connectivity of all body systems, meaning that to reach peak performance, whole-body health is required.
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Supplements
Nutritional Therapy incorporates the use of nutritional supplements into clinical practice. Craig Coaching doesn’t directly sell supplements but gives advice on their use and where you can buy them from.Click below for more information about Supplements