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Building Healthy Team Culture
Create a team environment that promotes healthy relationships with food.
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Create a team environment that promotes healthy relationships with food.
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Pick one language change and one environment change your staff will implement this week.
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Create a team environment that promotes healthy relationships with food.
Language
Talk about fuel, readiness, and recovery instead of body size
- Athletes learn the daily standard from casual comments, not formal talks.
- Performance language keeps the message clear and safer.
Environment
Make good fueling visible and easy to do
- Snack bins, water access, and handouts change culture faster than slogans.
- The team sees food as part of training, not a side issue.
Home alignment
Send one clear parent message early
- Ask families to back breakfast, a practice snack, and recovery food first.
- Simple home expectations beat long nutrition lectures.
TL;DR Card
- Team culture shapes athlete nutrition behavior more than one-off talks.
- No body comments, no public weigh-ins, and no food shaming.
- Praise fueling, recovery, consistency, and sleep habits.
- At altitude, under-fueling shows up fast.
First Step
Stop one body comment today and replace it with a performance comment.
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