Sports Nutrition
Sports nutrition focuses on enhancing performance, recovery, and overall health through tailored dietary strategies. The goal is to fuel training, prevent injuries, and support peak performance.
Why Sports Nutrition Matters
Nutrition is a key driver of performance, recovery, and long-term health. With the right strategies, athletes and active individuals can train harder, recover faster, and reduce the risk of injury.
Performance & Training
Even mild dehydration (as little as 2% body weight loss) can impair endurance and cognitive performance.
Recovery & Injury Prevention
Protein intake of 20–30g after training has been shown to optimise muscle repair and reduce soreness.
Weight & Body Composition
Up to 50% of athletes attempt weight manipulation during their careers, often without safe guidance — increasing the risk of under-fuelling.
Long-Term Health
Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) affects around 1 in 3 athletes at some point, leading to fatigue, hormonal changes, and higher injury risk.
Who we help?
Our sports dietitians support:
- Professional and amateur athletes – across a wide range of sports and competition levels
- Fitness enthusiasts – training to improve performance or recovery
- Event competitors – preparing for marathons, triathlons, or endurance events
- Youth athletes – supporting healthy growth and performance development
- Active individuals – looking to build strength, endurance, or improve body composition
Conditions We Support
Our sports dietitians provide nutrition support for a wide range of performance and health concerns, including:
- Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) – restoring energy balance to improve health and performance.
- Nutrient deficiencies – such as iron, calcium, or vitamin D, which can impact energy, bone health, and immunity.
- Hydration and electrolyte imbalances – preventing fatigue, cramping, and reduced performance.
- Gastrointestinal issues during sport – managing bloating, cramps, or gut discomfort linked to training and competition.
- Injury recovery – using nutrition to support tissue repair and reduce inflammation.
- Safe weight management – guidance for athletes in weight-category sports or with physique goals.
Our Expertise
Performance Nutrition
Tailoring food and fluid intake to meet training demands, competition schedules, and recovery needs.
Hydration & Energy Strategies
Planning fluids, electrolytes, and macronutrient balance to optimise energy, endurance, and focus.
Injury Prevention & Recovery
Using nutrition to support tissue repair, reduce inflammation, and promote faster recovery.
Physique & Supplement Guidance
Safe, evidence-based strategies for body composition goals and supplement use.
How We Work With You
Our sports dietitians provide support that is practical, personalised, and designed to help you perform at your best.
We review your training schedule, current diet, health history, and performance goals to understand your needs.
Tailored nutrition strategies to fuel training, support recovery, and address nutrient gaps in a way that fits your lifestyle.
Regular reviews to track progress, refine strategies, and keep you motivated throughout your training and competition cycle.
Meet our Sports Nutrition Dietitian Team
Our team includes dietitians with specialised training and experience in sports nutrition. Each brings a compassionate, evidence-based approach to help optimise performance, recovery, and overall health.
Click on a dietitian below to learn more about their background and experience, and to book a telehealth appointment directly.
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Lena Tat
Lena supports children and adults with sports nutrition and eating disorders, taking a holistic, trauma-informed approach to help them fuel their bodies, restore balance, and reach their goals. She provides practical, evidence-based strategies that fit into everyday life and empower long-term health. Telehealth and home visits available in Shepparton and Melbourne Northern Suburbs.
Brooke Norman
Brooke’s interests include sports nutrition, eating disorders, and feeding therapy, helping clients build a positive relationship with food while supporting performance and recovery. She combines clinical experience with evidence-based strategies that support long-term health and sustainable lifestyle changes. Telehealth Australia-wide & home visits available in Melbourne’s Eastern suburbs.
Liz Radicevic
Liz is a credentialed Sports Dietitian, with a passion to help athletes and active people with practical strategies for fuelling training, enhancing recovery, managing gut issues, and achieving peak performance. Liz is available for telehealth Australia-wide & home visits available in Melbourne’s North-Eastern, Eastern & South Eastern suburbs.
Frequency Asked Questions
Our sports dietitians in Melbourne, Bendigo, Shepparton, Albury Wodonga, Brisbane, and Gold Coast help athletes and active individuals optimise performance, recovery, and long-term health through evidence-based, personalised nutrition strategies.
Our sports dietitians in Melbourne, Bendigo, Shepparton, Albury Wodonga, Brisbane, and the Gold Coast help athletes and active individuals optimise performance, recovery, and long-term health through tailored nutrition.
We provide evidence-based strategies for fuelling training, reducing injury risk, and achieving personal fitness goals safely.
Sports nutrition isn’t just for elite athletes. We work with:
- Competitive and recreational athletes
- Gym-goers and fitness enthusiasts
- Endurance competitors (marathons, triathlons)
- Youth athletes building healthy foundations
- Individuals seeking safe body-composition changes
Whether you train daily or a few times a week, the right nutrition plan enhances energy, focus, and results.
The right balance of carbohydrates, protein, fluids, and electrolytes fuels muscles, maintains energy, and supports muscle repair.
Our dietitians help you:
- Plan pre- and post-training meals for optimal energy
- Meet protein targets (20–30 g) to enhance recovery
- Replace fluids and electrolytes lost in sweat
- Time nutrients for competition days
- Reduce inflammation and support faster tissue repair
We also teach how to use evidence-based supplements safely to complement training without compromising health.
Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) occurs when athletes don’t eat enough to meet their training needs.
This can lead to fatigue, hormonal changes, poor recovery, and increased injury risk.
Our sports dietitians identify early warning signs and build fuel-for-performance plans to restore balance and protect long-term health.
Yes. Many athletes experience bloating, cramping, or diarrhoea during training or competition.
We help identify triggers such as high-fibre, high-fat, or FODMAP foods eaten before exercise and create gut-friendly fuelling plans that improve comfort and endurance.
Absolutely. We support teen athletes to balance growth, performance, and recovery.
Our dietitians educate families on fuelling needs, hydration, and safe approaches to body composition changes — building positive habits for lifelong health.
Even a 2 % loss in body weight from dehydration can reduce endurance and concentration.
We help you tailor a hydration strategy based on sweat rate, temperature, and training intensity to prevent cramps, fatigue, and performance decline.
No referral is required. You can self-book or use our Referral Form.
We also accept GP Care Plans and referrals from sports physicians, coaches, or allied health professionals.
Yes — we provide telehealth appointments Australia-wide and home visits in Melbourne, Bendigo, Shepparton, Albury Wodonga, Brisbane, and Gold Coast.
Telehealth is ideal for ongoing check-ins, training block adjustments, and performance nutrition reviews.
Our team supports clients across Melbourne (North, West, East, South East, CBD), Bendigo, Shepparton, Albury Wodonga, Brisbane, and the Gold Coast, with telehealth access nationwide.
Yes. Our sports dietitians are experienced in supporting athletes and active individuals experiencing disordered eating, RED-S, or an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, or binge eating disorder.
We take a compassionate, evidence-based approach that helps restore adequate fuelling, protect health, and maintain training and performance goals safely.
This includes:
- Supporting recovery while balancing training demands
- Re-establishing regular meal patterns and energy availability
- Educating athletes, coaches, and families about safe fuelling practices
- Collaborating closely with psychologists, doctors, and treatment teams
Our sports dietitian, Brooke Norman, is specially trained in both sports nutrition and eating disorder care. She helps athletes rebuild a healthy relationship with food, restore energy balance, and return to training safely and confidently.
Our goal is to help every athlete achieve long-term health, strength, and performance — without compromising wellbeing.
Contact us today to begin your journey towards a better you
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