Talking Teen & Adolescent Nutrition with Sam Armstrong - a podcast by Michele Pink

from 2020-11-13T20:00

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Nutrition has always been a passion of mine, even as a young girl, which is why I chose a career Dietetics. However, my work has predominantly been in adult nutrition, in particular obesity management. So when I started to see some of our young calisthenics performers struggling with their nutrition and even my own teenage kids. I thought I better bring in the expert.

Today we are super lucky to have on the podcast today Sam Armstrong, a dietitian specialising in teen nutrition. Sam loves working with adolescent athletes, she loves their passion when they talk about their sport, their drive when it comes to their dreams, but most of all they transport her back to when she was an adolescent athlete herself.

Sam loves to help athletes achieve what she couldn’t. As an athlete, Sam was on track for great things. She was a National level swimmer, with scholarship offers to the USA - all of which all fell away when she developed an eating disorder (in conjunction with undiagnosed coeliac disease and anaemia). By the time she got these issues seen to, years later she was an adult and it was too late. She clawed her way back to Olympic and Commonwealth Games trials, but never got the Green and Gold tracksuit.

These days Sam runs her own business and has been doing this for 3 years where she has worked with some major teams such as the Brisbane Lions, East Leagues Football Club and Nudgee College to name a few. She has also worked individually with multiple Olympic and Paralympic athletes. Her niche is working with older children and teens and she has a keen interest in adolescent growth as performance.

Instagram Accounts Sam recommends young athletes follow

  1. Peak Potential Nutrition  - peak-potential-nutrition
  2. Sports Dietitians Australia - sportsdietaust
  3. YLMSportScience - ylmsportscience
  4. SPORTRITION - sportrition_

Further episodes of Talk More with Rosemore - The Calisthenics Podcast

Further podcasts by Michele Pink

Website of Michele Pink