#347: Alex Thomas - Advancing the Sports Nutritionist Profession

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Alex Thomas is the founder of Sports Nutrition Association (SNA), which is global association that contains Sports Nutrition Australia, Sports Nutrition NewZealand, Sports Nutrition Asia, and Sports Nutrition USA.

Alex is an experienced Clinical Accredited Sports Nutritionist. He is the Australasian Ambassador of the ISSN (International Society of Sports Nutrition). He is co-creator of the Metabolic Health Screen (A health risk and contraindication identification and triage system – now imbedded in the MyPocketcoach platform).

His passion is in providing legitimate education, qualifications and insurance pathways to ensure the successful and sustainable career pathways for the profession of Sports Nutritionists. Alex believes we now have a unique opportunity to establish a significant meaningful impact and pride in what it is to hold the title of ‘Accredited Sports Nutritionist’ within the industry.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Sigma Nutrition Radio. I'm your host, Danny Lennon, and you're listening to Episode 347 of the podcast.
0:23.6	And this particular episode is going to be most relevant for those you who are nutritionists
0:29.6	or aspiring nutritionists looking to work as a practitioner in the field of advising people
0:35.6	on their nutrition in order to change their performance,
0:39.5	in order to change their body composition, and then also general health in non-clinical settings.
0:46.3	And the focus of this issue is going to be around the sports nutrition profession itself,
0:52.0	and with a particular focus on the non-nutritional components of
0:57.3	practice that are important. So, for example, not only being a competent practitioner, but also
1:03.3	some of the boring logistical stuff, oftentimes of regulation, certain standards to be at insurance, and so on. And to come and discuss some
1:14.3	these topics, I'm going to be talking with Alex Thomas, who I've had the pleasure of knowing
1:19.6	for over a year now. And Alex is the founder of Sports Nutrition Association, or SNA, which is a global association now that contains within it,
1:31.0	Sports Nutrition Australia, Sports Nutrition New Zealand, Sports Nutrition Asia, and Sports Nutrition USA,
1:37.3	with also plans for over the next year to expand that into a European operation to have a full global body,
1:46.4	with the goal of being able to provide legitimate education qualifications insurance pathways for sports nutritionists to ensure that they
1:54.3	can have a successful and sustainable career and Alex really has had this passion for making sure that practitioners can not only know
2:04.3	the path forward to being a competent professional, but also that they have the resources to be
2:09.1	able to go and do that, and they're able to protect themselves as practitioners as well. Now,
2:14.6	Alex is himself an accredited sports nutritionist, and as the head of Sports Nutrition Australia,
2:20.9	how I first actually got to meet Alex was I was a speaker at the first annual Sports Nutrition
2:26.5	Australia conference in 2019 and off the back of that I've had several great chats with Alex
2:33.3	and was able to hear at that event
2:36.2	some of his thoughts about the industry as the whole and how he actually plans to help practitioners
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