Kelsey HigginsonSports Nutrition Coach and Founder at Clutch Day Coaching

Part 1 rating athlete trends

7 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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In this rapid‑fire segment, two speakers evaluate a series of popular nutrition and recovery trends for athletes, especially high‑school competitors. Speaker A names each trend, while Speaker B assigns a numeric rating from 0 to 10 and offers brief commentary explaining the score. The trends covered include intermittent fasting, post‑game chocolate milk, the carnivore diet, juice cleanses, bananas for cramping, hydrogen‑infused water bottles, daily creatine supplementation, and a massive pasta dinner for carb‑loading. The discussion emphasizes the importance of balanced fueling, carbohydrate intake, and evidence‑based supplements, while dismissing fads that lack clear benefit.

Intermittent fasting for athletes.
If you're talking high school athletes, I'd say 1 for sure. Um, you need to fuel up. Most athletes are underfueling and under-eating.
Post-game chocolate milk.
I love chocolate milk. I'll put 9 there. It's got good carbs and good protein in it for the athlete's body.
Carnivore diet, 1.
Protein is so, so important, but you need a lot of good carbohydrates too, and vegetables.
Juice cleanses.
Zero. Don't do those, not worth it.
Bananas for cramping.
4. Bananas are awesome, they have really great potassium in them, but you also need other electrolytes too.
Probably won't keep you from cramping eating thousands of bananas. Hydrogen water bottles.
2 or 3. I've seen some stuff on that, but honestly most athletes just deal with drinking enough water as is, so just focus on getting water in instead of like a super fancy hydrogen water bottle.
Daily creatine?
10. Creatine's so great, so good for your performance, for your recovery, for your brain, for everything. So 10.
Massive pasta dinner the night before a game to carb load?
8. Pasta is just high in carbs, and carbs are going to give you the energy that you need in the game the next day, so that's fantastic.