Have you ever had a meal plan from a personaltrainer? nutrition
As the fitness industry watches Brittany Dawn being sued for offering nutrition plans to customers with eating disorders, we ask whether personal trainers should ever give nutritional guidance?
But while personal trainers can be a godsend when it comes to refining your technique, making your workouts more efficient and maximising your goals, what they may not be qualified to do is assign their clients’ strict meal plans. She also says that personal training tends to be so focused on results and aesthetics, rather than nutritional value. “As a lot of PTs like to focus on weight loss, there’s always a chance clients may end up on an unhealthy calorie deficit which could lead to long term damage,” she says.adds that the widespread availability of nutritional ‘advice’ online is concerning.
“Poor nutrition can result in low energy availability and then relative energy deficiency in sport,” McGregor says. “I think it is also important for a PT to work with their clients to achieve realistic body aesthetics rather than ‘ideals’.” “PTs should only provide general advice on healthy eating, rather than give specific, prescriptive advice. If PTs start giving nutrition advice to alleviate real or suspected medical conditions, then they are operating outside of their professional boundaries and may find themselves in trouble if problems with clients occur,” it says. Plus, there is the potential for civil disputes if they are believed to have overstepped their professional boundaries.
McGregor agrees that personal trainers are qualified to offer guidance, as opposed to steadfast rules. “I think it is absolutely fine for a PT to give some ideas and examples of meals/snacks that might be useful,” she explains. “For example, if a client admits that they find eating breakfast difficult before a training session, this would be a good place for a PT to emphasise the importance of fuelling and provide some simple ideas that are convenient and easily digestible.
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