Nutrition for Climbing

Fueling your passion correctly

What is it?

Sport nutrition is regarded as the single most complementary factor to any physically active individual or elite athlete during their training or competition programme. Adequate dietary intake is important for normal growth and development, maintaining health and well-being, reducing the risk of illness and injury, and optimising sports performance.

As a fight against gravity using small edges and limited friction, it is no surprise that the research suggests the athletic profile optimal for climbing performance is a low body mass and low body fat levels, which ultimately can improve the strength to weight ratio. However, this can be very problematic for many climbers as they continually strive to get lighter and stronger.

Many climbers find themselves severely restricting their calorie intake, typically by reducing carbohydrate intake to very low levels irrespective of training volume or intensity. This may be an effective, albeit sub-optimal solution to acute weight management; however, a long-term energy deficit without adequate monitoring is very likely to have negative consequences for both the health and performance of the climber.

As the popularity of climbing continues to grow, there are more and more people online sharing ideas regarding nutrition for climbing. Unfortunately, much of this advice is not supported by scientific evidence, is not tailored to the individual, and in some cases, can be detrimental to health.

Don’t put your health and performance on the line by taking advice from unqualified and unregulated sources.

What are the benefits?

Our nutritional support is evidenced-based and fully bespoke to meet your individual goals, including:

  • Safe fat-loss for optimal strength-weight ratio
  • Increasing energy availability
  • Weight maintenance across the competition season
  • Augmenting training adaptations; increasing strength and endurance gains
  • Manipulating nutrient availability to regulate/promote training induced cell-signalling pathways
  • Faster recovery from injury
  • Competition and projecting performance
  • Fuelling intensive climbing trips

Core

£200
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6 weeks
Core+ £250
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12 weeks
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Core

The ‘Core’ is the foundation for all our packages and features the essential services required to provide comprehensive nutritional support, which includes:

  • Initial consultation (60 mins) at our main clinic or remotely via video call
  • Dietary analysis with report- Body composition testing (ISAK profile or BIA)*
  • Individualised nutritional guidance for a 6 week training block, including meal planning and recommended supplements
  • Email / messaging contact throughout
  • Access to professional diet tracking app
  • 30 min follow up online consultation

*for face-to-face visits only

Core+

The ‘Core plus’ package is as above but extended to 12 weeks of support.

  • Extended guidance to support multiple training cycles and goals

Advanced

£350
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12 weeks
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The ‘Advanced’ package takes dietary precision to the next level, with a highly accurate assessment of metabolic rate using indirect calorimetry and an additional consultation in clinic.

  • Improve the precision of your nutritional programme with an accurate measure of your  unique energy requirements
  • Helps to establish a ‘safety net’; minimising any risk associated with long term weight-loss
  • Includes a follow up consultation in clinic

Peak

£425
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12 weeks
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The ‘Peak’ is our top level package and suited to high performing athletes. With all the features of the ‘Advanced’ package, it also includes analysis of biochemical markers of nutritional status (iron/Vit D) and a detailed competition strategy.

  • Low energy availability may contribute to iron deficiency which can compromise health, training adaptation, and performance
  • Vitamin D can have a profound effect on bone health, immunity, inflammation, and muscle function – sun exposure is limited when training indoors and/or during winter months
  • Maximise your competition performance with a bespoke strategy to optimise your power, focus and recovery at competition

Individual Consultations

£50
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Hour
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You can book an individual consultation or follow-up appointment for £50/hour.

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