How SportsNutritionClinic utilizes Dr. Benardot’s research and within-day energy balance

Dr. Benardot has spent years researching the Within-Day Energy Balance concept on elite athletes from around the world. Whereas energy balance (caloric intake minus caloric expenditure) had traditionally been calculated in 24-hour increments, Dr. Benardot has found that the best method for achieving ideal body weight, body composition and performance is through real-time, Within-Day Energy Balance. In other words, dynamically matching caloric intake with expenditure in real time during the day improves performance, sense of well-being, body composition, and weight. SportsNutritionClinic.com is the only site available offering this type of energy balance assessment through the application of patent-pending algorithms and technologies.

SportsNutritionClinic has modeled the processes and analyses that elite or professional athletes goes through when visiting the Laboratory for Elite Athlete Performance, and have replicated those steps for all site members to benefit from. Now, you don?t have to be an elite athlete to get the same nutrition advice some of the best athletes in the world receive.

Using SportsNutritionClinic's automated Energy Balance Input is quick, easy, and the first step in analyzing Within-Day Energy Balance. Use the Recipes and Workouts features to customize and speed the input.

SportsNutritionClinic's Within-Day Energy Balance graph is the only graph of its kind and provides members with an easy to follow display of their changing energy intake and consumption during the day. Perform a single day analysis or review several days of data to see what really happens with energy balance on sequential training days.

Comprehensive Nutrient Analysis

SportsNutritionClinic’s complete Nutrient Intake Analysis gives a complete break-down of actual vs. recommended consumption of nutrients.  Recommendations are customized based on age, gender, weight, daily activity level, and athlete type (endurance, power, team, or non-athlete/beginner).

Graphing Energy Substrates: Actual vs. Recommended

Make sure your consumption levels of carbohydrates, protein, and fat match your unique recommended amounts with the simple Calorie Proportions and Where Your Calories Come From graphs.  Recommendations are customized based on age, gender, weight, daily activity level, and athlete type (endurance, power, team, or non-athlete/beginner).

Muscle Mapper: Track your Training

Using the information you’ve entered in your Energy Balance Input (activities, their duration, and their intensity), SportsNutritionClinic automatically records a daily muscle-use view on the Muscle Mapper.  This is a great tool to ensure proper cross-training and to reduce the risk of overuse injuries.

Training Logs

SportsNutritionClinic’s Energy Balance Input doubles as a complete training log.  Record all the details of your in the Exercise View, which uses sport-specific measurements for each activity in the comprehensive database, so you enter the data in the same terms that you use in training – no conversions necessary.

Printable Workout Logs are customized based on workouts you create.  Going to your Wednesday cross-training session?  Print out the workout log and take it along – it lists all the details of your workout, plus past workout results.

Recommendations for Your Unique Day Types 

While other SportsNutritionClinic graphs focus on a specific day, the Calculators screen provides data based on day types.  Want to know your typical carbohydrate requirement on a heavy training day?  Here’s where to look.  The full range of nutrient information is provided, along with other key facts like Resting Metabolic Rate.  These custom calculations are based on your age, weight, gender, athlete type, and your historical average energy requirements for each day type.

SportsNutritionClinic’s Training Day Analysis screen analyzes and graphs the minimum, maximum, and average calories burned for each day type.

Access to the Pros: Functionality to make it a virtual lab visit

One of the great things about visiting a nutritionist or any other health care professional in-person is the ability to ask questions.  That’s why SportsNutritionClinic has created several avenues for communication and knowledge sharing.

Written by experts in their field and updated monthly, the Article Library hosts a wealth of information.  An excellent search engine helps you quickly find what you’re looking for.

SportsNutritionClinic’s Quick Tips contain recommendations and advice from elite athletes, coaches, and trainers.

Have a question you think other people are wondering about also?  Submit it to SportsNutritionClinic’s Weekly Q&A for the change to have it answered for all members to read.

Live Chats are hosted by Dr. Benardot, plus other members of the elite athlete, coaching, and training community.  Use the ‘reminder’ feature for upcoming chats, then login to speak directly with the hosts.

My Messages works like email built-into SportsNutritionClinic.  My Messages is the place for notices and updates.

Quizzes are updated monthly and provide terrific background and myth-busting knowledge.  Test your skills today!

Track your Goals, Monitor your Progress

Getting ready for a 10K run next month? Trying to loose 10 pounds? Want more muscle mass? Set one or all of them up as Goals. My Goals works with your Base Information and Energy Balance Input to monitor your progress, and displays the results in easy-to-read results graphs (coming soon). 

Dr. Benardot’s credentials

“The fundamentals of SportsNutritionClinic.com are based on the research of the company’s Scientific Advisor, Dr. Dan Benardot, a tenured professor with appointments in the Department of Nutrition and the Department of Kinesiology and Health at Georgia State University (GSU). Dr. Benardot was in charge of the nutritional health of the gold-medal winning United States Gymnastics Team at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, and was the nutritionist for the medal-winning USA marathoners at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. He now chairs the nutrition committee of the Performance Enhancement Team for USA Figure Skating and is an Advisory Board Member of the National Center for Human Performance. As co-director of the Laboratory for Elite Athlete Performance at GSU he is involved in helping athletes develop training plans that assist them in their pursuit of athletic excellence. He received his doctorate (Ph.D.) in human nutrition and health planning from Cornell University in 1980; received a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, (DHC) in 2002 from Marywood University for his work in the area of sports nutrition; is a Registered Dietitian; and is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. His research focus on within-day energy balance and related issues has been funded by the United States Olympic Committee, the Gatorade Sports Science Institute, the Georgia Research Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, with his findings published in highly regarded professional journals. He is the author of “Nutrition for Serious Athletes” (Human Kinetics © 2000, 336 pgs); and “Advanced Sports Nutrition” (Human Kinetics © 2006, 341 pgs); and was editor-in-chief of “Sports Nutrition 2nd edition” (American Dietetic Association © 1993, 335 pgs). He was the first American appointed to the Medical Commission of the international governing body for gymnastics (Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique). Dr. Benardot has worked with individual athletes in numerous sports, including hockey, tennis, triathlon, cycling, marathon, figure skating, and gymnastics."