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The Sports Nutritionist - Health & Performance Coaching, Dunedin (2026)

🔥Dunedin’s Gold Standard in Body Composition Testing
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⚡️We eliminate the guesswork through metabolic mapping & objective data
📍160A King Edward St, Dunedin

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https://www.thesportsnutritionist.net/ From general health to peak performance, The Sports Nutritionist is changing lives through nutritional science. We specialise in a wide range of services:

- Personalised Nutrition Plans - At-Home Exercise Programs - Free Community Seminars - NZ s first 60-minute Full-Body Warrant of Fitness Serving Dunedin and Invercargill, NZ (with programs available worldwide), we believe sports nutrition is applicable to all. Our work is built upon a foundation of education, empowerment, and support, with everything we do grounded in sports science.

03/06/2026

When you lift heavy weights or train with explosive muscular power, your muscles need one specific fuel source to perform at their absolute best: carbs (glucose).

If you don’t give your muscles the carbs they need, you simply can’t lift with maximum strength or get the best muscle-building results.

When you cut out carbs and starve your workouts, your body pays a massive penalty:

🥵 Dropped Strength: Your strength hits a wall early.

⚔️ Muscle Breakdown: To survive the stress of a heavy workout, your body releases stress hormones that actually break down your hard-earned muscle tissue just to turn it into emergency fuel.

01/06/2026

Hi, I’m Amber! 🌿

If you’re new around here, welcome to a corner of the internet where we choose clinical science over influencer trends, and performance over perfection.

For the last 7 years, I’ve been deep-diving into human physiology. Why? Because I grew incredibly tired of seeing active people spinning their wheels on generic, one-size-fits-all fitness advice.

Your body isn’t a guessing game.

Think of this page as your evidence-based hub. Moving forward, I’m going to be using this space to break down complex sports science into simple steps, answer your burning nutrition questions, and discuss performance data - metabolic baselines, muscle symmetry, and cellular hydration.

I want to build this community around what you actually need, so drop your biggest health or performance question below and I’ll answer it in an upcoming post! 👇

Let’s get rid of that confusion together. Hit follow and let’s get into it 🚀

21/02/2026

SUPER stoked to announce that massive changes have been in the works this year! 👀

Exciting updates coming soon! 🤭

25/10/2025

CARBOHYDRATES 101

➡️ There are 2 types of carbs = simple & complex

1. Simple carbs are AWESOME to have around your high intensity training (30-45mins before) as they are digested quickly, often don’t make you feel heavy or bloated during activity and are converted into glucose quickly. (If you’re feeling very tired and low-energy after a high intensity workout, it could be because your glucose is low! Low glucose = poorer performance!)
➡️ Pre-training snacks: fruit with yoghurt, toast and honey, banana and weetbix
➡️ Half-time snacks= dried /fresh fruit, fruit juice, lollies (these foods are converted into energy faster than foods containing fibre)

2. Complex carbs are larger molecules and are digested slower (often also containing more nutrients and fibre, with less calories than simple carbohydrate sources), and are great for sustained fullness and energy!
➡️ Daily energy - focus on intake at lunch & dinner: vegetables, grains, wheats, rices (prioritise veg intake, aim for 1 cup per meal)

Both types of carbohydrates are converted into glucose, both fuel high intensity movement, the main difference is the rate at which it’s digested & nutrient-density v caloric-density.

Don’t skip on the veg! 🔥💪

13/10/2025

It was an absolute privilege to give my 6th nutrition seminar of 2025 at Invercargill Public Library (Invercargill City Libraries and Archives) last week!

The community engagement was absolutely awesome and it was a true honour to be able to meet so many incredible people throughout the year ❤️

For those of you that missed them this year, these free community seminars will start up again in 2026! Stay posted for the date! 🙌 WoF testing at Snap Fitness (Snapfitness Invercargill) will also start up again in the new year! (Book via link in bio or send a DM if you’d like to start the year off right 💅)

THE BASICS OF MACRONUTRIENTS ⬇️

✅ Carbohydrates are used for high intensity, short duration activity (10s-2mins) = FUEL 🔥

✅Fat is used for low intensity, short duration activity (2mins+) as well as health (cell structure, vitamin absorption, hormonal regulation) = FUEL 🔥 & HEALTH 💪

✅Protein is largely used for health (hormonal & enzymatic relations, immune system, cellular structure, tissue repair) = HEALTH 💪

Other videos will will be posted soon that dive into each macronutrient separately to explain intake, timing, supplements, and food groups 🙌

See ya in person next year Invercargill, thanks for having me! 👏

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Tuesday	8am - 5pm
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