This webinar will address the critical, yet often overlooked, topic of healthy lean mass gain in athletes and military personnel.
While weight loss strategies are well-established, the optimal nutritional approaches for building muscle and enhancing performance remain largely unexplored. The speakers will delve into the limited existing research, highlighting the gaps in our understanding of energy and macronutrient needs for healthy weight gain, particularly in light of studies conducted in the past two decades, which have largely focused on protein intake and timing on acute muscle protein synthesis. They will also address the significant lack of research including female participants, aiming to provide practical insights and strategies to bridge these knowledge gaps and promote effective, healthy weight gain.
What You’ll Learn:
- Summarize the current performance nutrition recommendations for intentional weight gain for athletes and military personnel.
- Evaluate the quality and quantity of the current literature supporting weight gain regimens for athletes and military personnel.
- Discuss gaps in current knowledge related to healthy weight gain.
Presented by ACSM in partnership with PINES.
All live attendees will earn 1 continuing education credit (CEC).
Presenters
Allison Sanchez, Ph.D, RD, CSSD is a recent doctoral graduate in Clinical Physiology and Metabolism from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. There, she studied under PINES member and ACSM fellow Enette Larson-Meyer. Allison has been a Registered Dietitian in the U.S. Army since 2011 and a Board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics since 2014.
Enette Larson-Meyer, Ph.D., RD, CSSD, FACSM is a professor at Virginia Tech where she directs the Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism Laboratory. Her research focuses on how nutrition influences the health and performance of athletes/active individuals, with recent interests including intentional weight gain and the importance of vitamin D, iodine and other micronutrient in sports/exercise performance and overall health. Enette has authored over 120 scientific articles and book chapters, is the author of “Plant-Based Sports Nutrition” (Human Kinetics, 2020), and has served on several International Olympic Committee (IOC) consensus panels. She is an Associate Editor for Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise and the Science and Medicine of Football and serves on the Academic Advisory Board for the IOC Diploma in Sports Nutrition and as a member of the International Testing Agency Health & Clinical Expert Advisory Group. Her personal interests include road cycling, flat-water kayaking, resistance training, gardening, yoga, cooking and wine tasting. She is the proud mother of three recent college graduates, two of whom played collegiate soccer.
Pricing
$18 for ACSM members, includes 1 CEC
$30 fee non-members, includes 1 CEC