Sports Nutrition

Sports Nutrition

Meet Alex, your dietitian

Alexandra Stokes (APD)

I get it. Nutrition can be confusing. Every week it seems there is a new miracle diet to try, promising the world and never delivering. I'm here to help you cut through the nonsense and feel empowered with the knowledge you need to take control of your health. 

Whether you’re seeking help with sports nutrition, weight loss or disease prevention, I am here to support and guide you to reach your goals. 

​My qualifications:

  • Masters of Dietetics 

  • Bachelor of Food and Nutrition Science

  • Monash FODMAP trained

  • ISAK level 1 Anthropometrist

If you’re neglecting your nutrition, you’re selling yourself short

The current sports nutrition landscape presents you with a huge opportunity to get an edge over your competitors.

Why?

Because currently, the typical standard of nutrition is to ‘carb up’ with a bowl of pasta the night before a match or race - and that’s it.

If that’s you; then you are leaving an enormous amount on the table.

You are selling yourself incredibly short, and are potentially costing yourself an opportunity to achieve your sporting dreams.

Properly fuelling your body does not begin and end the night before the game.

How do you get better as an athlete? You train.

What’s the aim of each training session? To push yourself.

How can you push yourself if you’re not appropriately fuelled? You can’t.

You will simply run out of energy, your body cannot run on fumes.

While you might be able to get away with it during training, running out of energy during a game, or a race, is something you can’t hide from.

Letting your team-mates down because you can’t run out the game is something no athlete wants to experience.

As an athlete, there’s no worse feeling than that.

Have you ever wondered why professional sporting organisations employ full time sports dietitians?

It’s because pro athletes understand how critically important nutrition is for their performance and recovery.

They understand that in order to be the best, they need to be training as hard as they possibly can, and recovering from those sessions as best as they can…so that they can be at their absolute peak performance come game or race day.

If you’re not yet at the elite level, there’s no reason why you can’t start acting like it.

You can take your nutrition seriously and see your performance go to a new level…

Or you can stay amongst the pack, doing what everyone else is doing…relying on a bowl of pasta the night before a game to get you through.

The choice is yours.