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Head and assistant coaches of XC and track distance programs.
A Coach’s 30-Day System for a Well-Fueled Roster
Implement team nutrition in one month — ten minutes a day, scripts included.
PDF ebook · ~50 pages (est.) · 9 print-ready worksheets plus email and text templates
Designed edition shipping soon — request it now, pay only when it’s ready to deliver.
The problem this solves
You already know which athletes are running on a granola bar and vibes. You see it in the flat Wednesdays, the October plateaus, the bone-stress injuries that “come out of nowhere.” Underfueling is a roster problem, and you’re the one who sees it first.
You also teach five periods, write the workouts, and drive the van. Becoming the team nutritionist is not on the table — and it shouldn’t have to be.
What works is operations: one theme a week, one handout home every Friday, a 25-minute parent night with a script, and a referral protocol so the hard moments have a procedure instead of a panic. Ten minutes a day runs the whole thing.
Inside this guide
Public preview
When the designed edition ships, its public preview shows Team Talk 1 in full plus the opening of Email 1 — one hero page, never the whole artifact. A complete 30-day rollout for coaches: the one-page Rollout Board, a 25-minute parent night with a full run-of-show, word-for-word scripts for the awkward conversations, meet-day team ops, and a red-flag referral protocol that keeps you in the coaching lane. Your assistants can run it without you.
Head and assistant coaches of XC and track distance programs.
Implement team nutrition in one month — ten minutes a day, scripts included.
Scope and safety
Coach’s-lane by design — educate, systematize, notice, refer; never diagnose, weigh, or dose.
No dosing. No diagnosis. No body talk. That’s the standard across every Aspire guide.
Print the board. Send the Week 1 email tonight.
Make it a bundle: The Team Bundle — $79
Coaching a program? Most programs should start with Program Access — $590/year: all eleven guides for roster use, the coach portal, and a team code for every family.
Written by the RD who coaches
Luke Rodriguez, MS, RDN is a Registered Dietitian and the Head Cross Country Coach at Palmer Ridge High School in Colorado. He writes the training plans and answers the parent emails — every practice, every season, at 7,000 feet. Every number in this guide comes from one science canon — the same one that runs Aspire’s software. The book and the tools never disagree.
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