Eat This for Performance

Season 3 Unleashed, Episode 4

We are not locked in or locked down. We have many opportunities right now to up our Performance Game. Today's episode will tell you how.

Today I introduce "The Performance Game". This is the beginning of an epic journey I am taking with some amazing athletes currently part of the sports nutrition school. We will learn what it takes to have a great journey in sport.

5 pillars will emerge during my journey and I will identify them as strategies you can be using NOW to improve your Performance Game... even during quarantine.

In this episode I will deep dive into each of the 5 pillars so you can evaluate your success with each one.

IMPORTANT! Make sure you do not miss the opening up of the Sports Nutrition School in a few short days for the June session. 

Sports Nutrition School

Performance Foods List

Season 3 Unleashed Episode 3

It is May, 2020 and as we look ahead to the coming months in sports we are uncertain about many things in our future. But one thing is very certain, there are some of the greatest athletes in the world who are readying themselves for that future.

I knew this back in March when the lockdown first came to my town. I also knew that many athletes would be searching for the best ways to get ready. I looked at the online sports nutrition course I had built for young athletes and I just couldn't let the program sit behind closed doors... so I opened them - wide open. FREE sports nutrition education. Oh yes! Over 1000 athletes jumped on the opportunity in April and many of them flew through the materials.

Then, they started to ask the right question, what's next? Well, this program was only every meant to be step 1... Level 1. What was next was Level 2 of course. But was ready? Not really. Did I have a single spare minute to open up a new program... barely. But I did it anyways.  I built a Sports Nutrition School (while homeschooling my kids).

It's been a HAAAARD month of April. Go listen to my awesome attempts at delivering quality podcasts in the past month if you want a good chuckle.. 

So now, I thought it would be fitting to offer some behind the scenes about this new direction of Eat This for Performance. In this podcast you will get to know me better, the story of Eat This for Performance, what is next and what I will be leaving behind.

I hope you reach out and share your journey with me. Just by listening to this podcast you support my journey.. and I hope we can continue to build this sports nutrition vision together.

Pearle Nerenberg is a sports dietitian from Montreal, Quebec Canada. She is the CEO and founder of Eat This for Performance and she has coached thousands of athletes on how to eat for performance and unleash their true potential. Visit her website at eatthisforperformance.com.

Dearest athletes and athlete families, has social distancing been leaving you feeling a little stuck and out of routine? 

It is time to unleash the best 2 ways to move your sports progress forward.

Your season is not on pause.

There are two powerful actions you can take now to unpause your season.

#1. Take on learning sports nutrition for once and for all. The Eat This for Performance Sports Nutrition School is being opened up just for you during this difficult time.

#2. Practice your sports nutrition skills. You can do this by playing with food. Go make a PERFORMANCE SMOOTHIE, a PERFORMANCE OVO, or a PERFORMANCE BOWL and challenge your family and teammates to do the same. 

Join me and my family as we play with food daily. I'll be cheering for you and celebrating your success, especially in our facebook group!

It's been a while since I shared a podcast. Trust me, I have been busy creating some amazing content. But nothing is more deeply personal and real than sharing audio recordings - in fact, in this audio I am at home practicing social distancing with my 2 young kids. You might laugh a little at what comes out of their mouths... I know they are making me laugh and cry almost hourly.

Now, in our time of need I am reaching out through a podcast to share my reality and to ask for your help. I'd like to get the ball rolling on a project called "The Positive Power of 2 People".

This is a call to you to both SHARE an action that will support you and SHARE an action that will support another person in your life. Read about how it can work here: https://www.facebook.com/pearlenerenberg/posts/10106381034537435

Feel free to tag me @eatthisforperformance or email me at [email protected] to share your actions and to lift up another person in your life.

Here at Eat This for Performance I will be asking 2 people to share the Sports Nutrition School with 2 athletes in their life - and asking those 2 athletes to share with 2 more athletes, etc. I am excited to see how far 2 people can reach!

P.S. If you are looking for information on my Sports Nutrition School go to https://et4p.com/the-school.

Pearle Nerenberg is the founder of the Sports Nutrition School and Meal Planning Program, Eat This for Performance. She is a registered sports dietitian in Montreal, Quebec Canada and a mom of 2!

What results are YOU after? A better math grade? Efficiency at work? Speed on the ice?

My name is Pearle Nerenberg. I’m a sports dietitian and the founder of Eat This For Performance, and today I’m digging into what you can do for a better performance. More specifically, how you can achieve that one result that is on your mind, whether you want to be winning more games, scoring more goals, or just getting stronger.

Now how do we usually measure our results? With grades! But let’s forget this idea that a low grade is bad and a high grade is good, and let’s start thinking about HOW to change our grades for the better, i.e. improve our performance. I’ve divided this into 4 simple steps:

Here at it Eat This For Performance, we strongly believe that sports nutrition has a supporting role for all results. Looking at what foods are being consumed, how they’re being prepared, when they’re being eaten and whether supplementation is being considered is extremely important for all types of performance. To evaluate your athlete’s eating habits and sports nutrition expertise, take the quiz and find out what grade they’ve been given. Then use the information in this podcast to start working towards that A.

Another extremely important supporting role to success is parents. And right now we’re working hard to support our hockey parents. Check out the I am FIT Hockey Moms Revival Program, the greatest accelerator to have hockey mom feeling her fittest and most rejuvenated self for her hockey family.

Ready to eat for performance today, but not sure where to start? Join our weekly F-Games, our fun food game we play to eat one powerful food every week and one performance recipe.

“There’s always room for salad”....so my parents repeatedly told me growing up. Although it seems like such a simple notion, this one repeated salad-eating behaviour had one of the biggest influences on my underlying respect for my parents, even during my “too cool for you” phase (you know the one...we’ve all been through it). I now realize why this had such a big effect on me.

In this episode, I uncover the 6 most powerful influences a human being has on someone else’s eating habits; positive and negative. From rewarding behaviours, to modelling and guiding...what works? And what should we stop doing? Tune in to find out!

If you are a parent, coach, or just someone who cares about an athlete’s performance, this one’s for you. Understanding how to create a positive influence for someone is so important. We should all constantly be asking ourselves: “Why am I doing this? and “How I can be doing it better and faster?”

Here at Eat This For Performance we guide you through these tough food conversations with your young athletes, using science as our backbone. We strongly encourage you to share your experiences and continue the conversation, and we’ll help you to get ahead in the performance world.

Want your athlete to really understand how to fuel their performance? In the ET4P Accelerator Program, I explain the sports nutrition with you. This basics training will take you no more than 90 mins to fully understand most of what you can tell your athlete.

For our hockey moms, we have something even more special for you: our upcoming 10-week health and fitness rejuvenation program to get you feeling renewed and in control of your life. The course name, I AM F.I.T., stands for “fit and inspired together.” Because we’re all doing this program together and will be providing daily inspiration to feel energized and beautiful, inspire others, and live vibrantly. Before we launch, be an early bird hockey mom to show your interest and help us shape this program around you.

Introducing the most inspirational coach in the hockey world: Vince Malts. I’m not kidding. He truly believes and constantly strives to be the MOST inspirational coach in the hockey world. As a former professional hockey player, mindset coach, and now owner of bloodline hockey, he completely understands what it takes to be a high performing hockey player. But nothing taught him that more than becoming a father himself. Having children not only gave him a new appreciation and understanding of his hockey family, but it also shaped how he shows up for them.

Coach Vinny Malts has been at the forefront of incorporating mindset development through sport. He has been named the Student of the Year from the Mindset Performance Institute for his outstanding work with youth athletes. Vince Malts has coached at the professional and amateur level for over 20 years. He has been featured as a speaker for the USHL, USA Hockey, The Roger Neilson Coaching Clinic,  Union College and many others. He is also the host of the Roger Neilson Coaches Podcast.

After 10 years of playing minor pro hockey, Coach Vince decided to follow his passion for coaching and mentoring players. He has been fortunate to have coached at the ECHL, EJHL and Tier I U18/U16/U14 levels. Coach Malts has helped build some of the strongest youth hockey programs around the country. He has experience of building successful programs at every level/stage of development.

His professional playing journey began in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for the Hull Olympiques, where he was drafted by the Vancouver Canucks.

His head coaching journey began over 10 years ago under the mentorship of the Legacy Global Sports family, which is the largest professional youth hockey organization around the world. Since beginning his coaching journey, Coach Vince has helped develop and place players into the National Hockey League, NCAA Division I/III, Canadian Hockey League & the United States Hockey League programs. He has helped to build some of the top ranked teams in the country including a Tier I National Championship.

Coach Vince is a certified USA Hockey Level 4 Coach, Mindset Performance Institute Ambassador, Gallup Certified Strengths Coach and International Youth Conditioning Association Specialist.

In this interview, Vince describes his holistic approach to coaching hockey. Spoiler alert! It involves identifying what you need to work on and knowing who to go to for help or guidance. His Mantra: I am what I do. “I do” being an acronym that stands for identify, direct and own. An incredibly powerful message he makes sure all his hockey players understand and apply to themselves.

Part of the reason Vince considers himself to be such a high performer is because he is committed to certain aspects of his life, which he refers to as his “non-negotiables” - one of them being nutrients. He says it is extremely important to him to know what he is putting in his body and whether or not it is boosting his performance. And when he says performance, he means that in every aspect of his life: supporting his hockey family, coaching, parenting, you name it.

At Eat This For Performance, we strongly believe that nutrition is non-negotiable, and we have the resources to help you be your highest performing self through powerful food.

Start eating for performance today by downloading the ET4P Starter Kit. And for the super committed families, check out our online Accelerator Program and ET4P meal plans to really accelerate your results.

Have you ever wondered, what is the One Thing you can do to make you and your child better performers?

My name is Pearle. I am a sports dietitian, the founder of Eat This For Performance, and a former elite level athlete. In the early years of my hockey career, I struggled to conquer my technical weaknesses, and didn’t know what to focus on to up my game.

In this episode, learn how I discovered the power of the One Thing, and how you can apply it to your own performance goals.

The One Thing is actually a book written by Gary W. Keller. Consider it to be a guide to being your most productive self. Join me as I discuss the 3 main concepts that appeared in the book that I know helped me become the best hockey player, business owner and mother I can be. (Hint: it involves planning your vacation time before anything else...you’re gonna want to hear this).

Use these techniques towards your own performance goals and explore this concept when you are developing your skills such as time blocking tasks with a focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.

If there’s one thing you do today (haha), review this podcast and tell us YOUR One Thing you do for performance. Share with us your strengths and weaknesses, and know that at Eat This For Performance we have the tools to support you in your performance goals.

To make performance eating part of mastering your One Thing, take your first step now by downloading the ET4P StarterKit.

To get to nutrition mastery faster, check out the ET4P meal plans and online course.

Episode #2

We're kicking off the 2nd episode ever of the Do This for Performance podcast with a really insightful interview. Dr. Thomas Brunner is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in advanced assessment and treatment of children, adolescents, and adults.  For over a decade Dr. Brunner has been committed to delivering the most cost-effective care, with the most sustainable results, in the most compassionate manner. Dr. Brunner’s belief is that through the usage of more advanced behavioural science tools, not only can a person’s problem(s) be more accurately identified and solved, but their potential can be unleashed leading to sustainable improvement. Brunner hails from Tucson where he resides with his wife, 2 children, 2 dogs and 4 cats. 

His blog, doctorbrunner.com, will leave you inspired and updated on the psychology of human potential.

In this interview we explore how trauma can accelerate learning, a new (old) way to parent, and the importance of finding the optimal level of anxiety to support performance.

In a delightful bonus, Dr. Brunner shares 2 must-read books, one being:

The Rise of Superman by Steven Kotler

If you like learning about performance and want more of these podcasts it helps if you rate this podcast and leave a review! This podcast is hosted by Pearle Nerenberg, a performance obsessed entrepreneur and visionary behind the break out sports nutrition brand, Eat This for Performance. If you are ready to eat for performance and want a clear path to begin, go grab the FREE Starter Kit at et4p.com/starterkit.

Dt4P Episode #1 

Welcome to the Do This for Performance podcast! I am your host, Pearle Nerenberg. I am a sports dietitian, an entrepreneur, and performance obsessed. The Dt4P podcast is here to act as a tool for you to realize you own best in everything you do in life. Today I introduce the 7 pillars of performance, how you can create the life you desire, and how you can use your vision of your ultimate performance as the jumping off point to actually achieving it.

All great lives start with a vision and are realized by powerful actions on their way to being "great lives". I want you to have powerful actions you can take after you listen to the Do This for Performance podcast. When you press play be listening for the actions you can take today.

Share this episode with a friend and post about your share on social media for your chance to win our 24-P journal. Make sure to tag @eatthisforperformance when you do it!

Eating for performance is one of the base pillars of performance and the Eat This for Performance community is here to support you to get your sports nutrition right and have fun doing making powerful food. Join the Eat This for Performance facebook group and play our weekly f-games for support, inspiration, and guidance.

If you are someone who loves talking about what it takes to have a top performance we'd love to have you on the podcast. Reach out!

All the best in your high performance life,

- Pearle

Founder of Eat This for Performance, Sports Dietitian, Mom of 2, and a former collegiate Athlete.