Performance Nutrition

You can't outwork
what you don't eat.

The greatest athletes fuel their bodies to do what they do. Everyone else calls it a diet and wonders why the work stops paying off.

This is not a weight-loss program. It's a fuelling plan built from your labs, your body composition and your sport — and there is a version of it for every athlete, at every size, male and female.

Which one is you?

The light one

You need to be bigger, and you're tired of hearing it.

You're a sophomore at 158 lb who gets moved off the ball. You've been told to "eat more" for two years and it hasn't worked, because nobody told you how much, how often, or what happens when you skip lunch.

The target

Add lean mass at roughly 0.5–1 lb a week — slow enough that it stays muscle.

What we'd watch

If the scale climbs faster than about 1.5 lb a week, we slow it down. Past that, the extra tends to arrive as fat.

The levers
A protein target you actually hit, spread across the day rather than stacked at dinner
Calories above what training burns — the part almost everyone underestimates
Feeding windows tied to practice, so you're not going eight hours empty
A pre-bed feed, because the overnight window is where a lot of this block is won

Built from measurement

Bloodwork, a 3D scan and a daily weight — not a template with your name typed at the top.

Adjusted, not prescribed once

Every block is re-measured. If the composition isn't moving the way it should, the plan changes.

Food first, supplements second

The plate builds the base. The stack fills the gaps a physician can actually see on a panel.

Why we measure what we measure

Every test on our list moves with fuel.

We didn't assemble this lab to collect numbers. We chose these specific measurements because nutrition is what moves them — which makes them the honest scoreboard for whether the fuelling is working. When a number stalls, food is the first place we look, not the last.

Body composition

The most direct readout there is. Lean mass and fat mass are the scoreboard for fuelling — the scale can't tell you which one moved, and a scan can.

Bloodwork

Iron, ferritin, vitamin D and B12 are nutritional status, measured. This is also where under-fuelling shows up first, often months before performance does.

VO₂ max

Your aerobic engine runs on oxygen your blood has to carry. Low ferritin caps it no matter how well you train — you cannot out-train an iron deficiency.

Force plates

Power is force relative to body mass. Lean mass drives the numerator; total mass is the denominator. Both are set at the table.

Grip strength

A whole-body strength signal built on protein intake and total energy. It falls early when an athlete is under-fuelled, and it's the cheapest place to notice.

The Measured Mind

Focus, emotional steadiness and sleep all degrade in an under-fuelled athlete. Mental performance is not separate from what they ate today.

How we know it's working

A plan you can't measure is a guess you repeat for sixteen weeks.

Two measurements run continuously alongside the plan, and between them they answer the only question that matters mid-block: is this working, or do we need to change something?

Withings — every morning

A cellular scale that ships already activated — no wifi, no pairing, no app to install. Step on it and the weight and composition arrive with us. Day to day it's noise; across a week it's the earliest signal we have that the fuelling is on or off target.

Styku — every few weeks

A 35-second 3D scan that separates lean mass from fat mass and shows where on the body it changed. This is what confirms the thing a scale can only hint at: whether the weight you gained is tissue, and whether the weight you lost was fat.

What we do about what we see
Gaining, and it's leanNothing changes. The plan is right — keep going.
Gaining, but fat is climbing tooCalories come down slightly, or shift toward training. Small correction, made early.
Weight flat when it should be movingAlmost always intake, not effort. We find the missed window before we change the training.
Losing lean massWe intervene the same week. This is the one we don't let ride.

That's the difference between a meal plan and a protocol. A meal plan is handed to you once. A protocol gets adjusted because somebody is watching the numbers.

If you want to improve any number on this list, nutrition comes first. Everything else is downstream of what you fuel with.

Targets shown are illustrative of the kind a physician sets. Yours come from your labs, your scan and your sport — and a physician signs every plan before you start it.