How can food improve your performance or general life?
Your food will play a key role in your:
Overall health
Fuelling individual training sessions
Recovery from training or between events
Adaptations from training to make you bigger, faster, fitter, stronger
Maximise your performance during competition
Jonathan here, founder of Compleat Performance and a SENr registered performance nutritionist.
Compleat Performance has one goal, to improve you. Training and sport is highly individual to you. It may be how you keep yourself sane and handle stress. It may be about the journey whether that be fat loss, recovering from an eating disorder or finding your limits. It may be improving yourself one day at a time. It may be about competing at the highest level or winning. It may even just be for the fun of it. Whatever your reason, it is highly individual as is your nutrition.
There is no 'one size fits all' approach as we are all individual with different needs that change over time. What your body needs to fuel itself is determined by your sport, training load, ambitions/goals, lifestyle, age, gender, stress and your current physiology.
Compleat Performance has supported a wide range of athletes from recreational up to World Championship competitors & Olympians from a variety of sports including running (middle & long distance), swimming, cycling, triathlon, football and rugby.
I hope you find something to improve you on this site and feel free to reach out to discuss how to improve your nutrition and performances.
Personal Successes
Top 10 finisher in a major UK marathon
70 minute half marathon (Championship qualification)
2 hour and 33 minute marathon (Championship qualification)
Edinburgh Marathon - Elite start
Qualifications
2023 BDA Performance Nutritionist (SENr)
2023 ISAK Level 1 Anthropometrist
2022 Applied Sports Nutrition MSc
2022 AfN Nutritionist (ANutr)
2022 Human Nutrition BSc (Hons)
2018 Level 3 Personal Trainer
Affiliations
P3RFORM
Game Changer Performance
Swim England
St Mary’s University Endurance Performance Centre
Camden Swiss Cottage SC, Anaconda SC, Hackney Aquatic Club, Greenwich Royals
London Heathside RC, Trent Park RC, Best Athletics RC
2024
March Podium FNUL 5k (15:57)
April The London Marathon (2:48)
May Middlesex 5k champs (16:26)
August Sri Chinmoy 10k (33:03)
September Podium FNUL 5k (15:54)
September Vitality 10k (33:32)
2023
January Battersea 10km (32:51)
March Cambridge Half Marathon (72:38)
April The London Marathon (2:36)
September The Big Half (74:04)
September Heathside 5000m (16:25)
September Vitality 10km (33:00)
December Valencia Marathon (2:33)
2022
January Battersea Half Marathon (72:11)
March Cambridge Half Marathon (70:52)
April Brighton Marathon (2:36)
July Battersea 10km (33:49)
August Sri Chinmoy 10km (32:59)
September The Big Half (74:31)
October The London Marathon (2:34)
December Battersea 10km (32:55)
2021
April Lea Valley Half Marathon (77:08)
June Lea Valley 10km (34:44)
August Battersea 10km (33:50)
August The Big Half (73:25)
October The London Marathon (2:33)
2020
January Olympic Stadium 10km (35:44)
March The Big Half (80:38)
March Victoria Park Half Marathon (78:44)
October Dorney Lake Marathon (2:39)
2019
February Olympic Park Half Marathon (85:01)
April The London Marathon (3:03)
May London Vitality 10km (39:09)
July Lea Valley 10km (37:21)
September Lea Valley 10km (36:46)
October Oxford Half Marathon (80:08)
November Florence Marathon (2:50)
2018
February London Winter 10km (39:33)
March Paris Half Marathon (90:19)
April Manchester Marathon (2:59)
October Bournemouth Half Marathon (88:31)
2017
May Milton Keynes Marathon (3:43)
October Bournemouth Marathon (3:11)