Success stories – diets for athletes

Polish national team athlete – Made By Diet client during training, supported by a sports nutritionist.

Many athletes from various disciplines have come under the wings of experienced sports dietitians at Made By Diet®. We have collaborated with runners, climbers, and weightlifters, preparing nutritional strategies and meal plans for cyclists, athletes participating in Obstacle Course Racing (OCR), and swimmers. Coaches, travelers, and anyone looking to improve their athletic performance, fitness, and health also benefit from our dietary consultations. Whether you train professionally or recreationally, remember that a well-composed diet is crucial for your athletic success, impacting energy levels, recovery, and overall performance. Join our clients and achieve more than ever!

Diets for runners

Running is currently one of the most popular sports disciplines. Under this general term, there are various types of running such as sprints, middle-distance running, long-distance running, relay races, street running, cross-country, mountain running, obstacle course racing (OCR), and many others. In each of these disciplines, the use of a well-composed diet for runners plays a crucial role. Oskar Karcz, a representative of Poland in obstacle course racing (OCR), attests to this fact. Our sports dietitian at Made By Diet® developed a nutritional strategy ensuring a stable energy level and efficient recovery during the preparation period for the European and World OCR Championships. Many others have also prepared themselves with our help for marathons, half marathons, and ultra-marathons. Paweł Samocki, one of our clients, admits that he was initially skeptical about working with a sports dietitian to create meal plans for athletes. However, after implementing our diet for runners, he noticed more efficient training sessions and quicker post-exercise recovery. He emphasizes that the diet crafted by our sports dietitian not only tasted good but was also easy and quick to prepare.

Diets for climbers

Rock climbing, both indoor and outdoor, is a highly popular physical activity among both amateurs and professionals. It’s a perfect sport for those who constantly seek new challenges and adrenaline rushes. However, for effective and safe participation in sport climbing, whether on artificial walls, natural rock faces, or high-altitude environments, it’s essential to follow a proper diet for climbers. Aleksandra Kałucka, the winner of the Sport Climbing World Cup for speed climbing and bronze medalist at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, acknowledges this. In collaboration with an experienced sports dietitian at Made By Diet®, she not only expanded her knowledge of nutrition in sports but also improved her laboratory test results, leading to enhanced sports performance. Our services have also been utilized by numerous amateurs and professionals, including Olga Kosek, a medalist at the European Championships in dry tooling, and many others involved in bouldering, lead climbing, speed climbing, and other climbing disciplines.

Diets for strength athletes

Weightlifting requires immense determination, precision, technique, and endurance. Success in this sport also heavily relies on a solid training plan and a well-chosen diet for strength athletes. For example, Marzena Zięba, a bronze medalist at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in weightlifting, benefited from our assistance. She emphasizes that our diets for athletes are always tailored to individual goals, contributing significantly to her achievement at the Games. This sentiment is shared by Bogusław Szczepański, her weightlifting coach, who believes that our collaboration played a crucial role in her Olympic success.

Meal plans for athletes

Our dietitians have been behind the impressive athletic and health achievements of athletes from many other disciplines, including cyclists and swimmers. We guarantee that with our extensive and continually updated knowledge, we can prepare a nutritional plan for any physically active individual, regardless of their sports specialization or training level. Join us at Made By Diet®, whether in person or online – whichever suits you best!

Success stories

FAQ

Although our passion is sport, Made By Diet® is a clinic for everyone – we combine the experience of a sports and clinical dietitian. We support athletes and active individuals, as well as people who want to lose weight healthily, need psychodietetics support, or struggle with low energy, digestive issues, insulin resistance, coeliac disease, IBS, GERD, lipid disorders or thyroid conditions.

A sports dietitian is a nutrition specialist in sport who combines knowledge of exercise physiology with practical nutrition strategies. They help plan diet, hydration, and supplementation to support training, recovery, and competition.

Because the right diet translates into sporting performance. With a sports dietitian you can expect stable energy during training and competitions, faster recovery, reduced risk of undernutrition-related injuries, and improved daily wellbeing.

See our guide: Prepare for your consultation – it contains a step-by-step checklist. In short: prepare a 3–7 day food diary (including training and non-training days), your training plan, a list of supplements and medications, and recent lab results (e.g. blood count, ferritin, vitamin D3, vitamin B12, TSH/FT4 if available). This will help the sports dietitian create a nutrition strategy and tailor recommendations precisely.

A nutrition consultation lasts about 60 minutes. During this time we carry out a detailed nutrition and training interview, discuss your goals, review your food diary, test results, and supplementation. At in-person appointments (Warsaw/Kraków) we can perform body composition analysis; online we work with reliable home measurements and physique photos. At the end you receive initial

Yes. A sports dietitian works as part of the team with your coach/club: periodising nutrition and supplementation to match workloads, synchronising meal timing, competition strategy, recovery, and carrying out monitoring and adjustments before key events.

Yes – the sports dietitian will plan what, how much, and when to eat and drink before, during, and after training. The strategy is tested in training and tailored to your discipline, workload, duration, and conditions. See our guide: Pre-training meal (with links to “during” and “post” nutrition).

Yes – the sports dietitian selects ergogenic supplementation based on your goals, training loads, and test results; they prepare a supplementation plan, monitor effects and tolerance, ensure safety (drug interactions, anti-doping risks), and recommend high-quality verified products.

Sports dietitians at Made By Diet® support runners (sprints, middle, long, ultra, mountain, OCR), cyclists (road, MTB, track, gravel), swimmers and triathletes, climbers (speed, lead, bouldering, dry tooling), and strength athletes (weightlifting, powerlifting). We work with national teams, clubs, and individuals – from juniors to masters – providing nutrition periodisation, race strategies, and recovery plans.

No – in addition to professionals we also support amateurs and beginners. We prepare for first races (5/10 km, half-marathon, triathlon, OCR), including after a break or injury. Plans are simple to follow and adapted to work and training. Nutrition consultations with a sports dietitian are available in Warsaw, Kraków, and online.

Yes – a sports dietitian will prepare a nutrition and hydration strategy tailored to distance, exercise duration, and conditions. This includes carbohydrate loading, gut training, in-exercise nutrition, hydration, and electrolytes – all tested in training.

Yes – we also support healthy weight loss. In addition to a nutrition plan, we encourage suitable activity, support habit change, and monitor progress (weight, measurements, body composition).

No. We focus on a moderate calorie deficit, satiety (protein, vegetables, fibre), a flexible approach, and including favourite foods in sensible portions. We also work on your relationship with food and lasting habit change.

Yes – the sports dietitian calculates energy needs, sets a safe deficit, and periodises calories and macronutrients according to training loads. They take care of meal timing, hydration, recovery, and monitor progress (weight, measurements, body composition), adjusting the plan when needed.

Yes. The sports dietitian will assess hydration and electrolytes (mainly sodium, also potassium, magnesium), energy availability, and fluid/meal timing, design a hydration and nutrition plan for your training, and – if necessary – suggest safe supplementation.

Yes. Body composition analysis (e.g. % body fat, muscle mass, hydration) is available in Warsaw and Kraków. Online, we use reliable home measurements and physique photos to track changes over time.

They plan a controlled energy surplus (5–15%) and protein intake of approx. 1.6–2.2 g/kg body weight, periodise calories and macros for strength training, set meal timing, and, if suitable, add creatine. Progress is monitored with regular body composition analysis, and the plan is adjusted to maximise muscle growth with minimal fat gain.

Yes – a sports dietitian adapts the plan to the menstrual cycle, maintains hormonal health, and prevents RED-S (Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport).

A sports dietitian works with active individuals: periodising nutrition, planning meal timing, carbohydrate loading, in-exercise nutrition, recovery, and safe ergogenic supplementation (often with the coach). A “regular” dietitian mainly focuses on healthy eating and/or diet therapy without targeting sports performance.

A sports dietitian plans nutrition, hydration, and supplementation for training, competition, and recovery using periodisation and meal timing (including in-exercise nutrition). A clinical dietitian provides diet therapy for conditions (e.g. insulin resistance, coeliac disease, IBS, GERD, lipid disorders, thyroid disease) and adapts the plan to the medical diagnosis, medications, and test results.

Yes – a sports dietitian selects only evidence-based supplements, checks compliance with the WADA List, recommends batch-tested products with Informed Sport/NSF certification, sets dosage and timing, monitors drug interactions, and tracks results while minimising anti-doping risk.

When looking for a sports dietitian in Warsaw, check experience in your discipline (real client results), qualifications and specialisation (sports/clinical), Google reviews, clear pricing, appointment availability, and between-session support (including online).

Yes – occasionally on weekends and evenings (especially in competition periods). Current availability can be checked and booked online – choose Nutrition consultation.

Yes – our sports dietitians see clients in Kraków. Dates and address are visible in the calendar when choosing Nutrition consultation; online consultations are also available.

The sports dietitian will take a detailed nutrition and training history, discuss your goals, and review your habits. You receive initial recommendations and an action plan.

You receive initial recommendations immediately during the consultation. If requested, we can also email them (often the same day). An individual meal plan and full nutrition strategy are usually delivered within 7 working days.

For busy people (especially company and corporate employees with tight schedules), frequent travellers, those with limited mobility, as well as parents and students (exams, placements, irregular hours, caring responsibilities) — and anyone who values convenience and flexible hours. An online dietitian provides care just as professionally as in the clinic.

An online consultation with a sports dietitian includes a detailed interview, sporting goals, analysis of your food diary and training loads. After the session you receive individual recommendations; if needed, we will prepare a meal plan and provide between-session support.

Yes — a sports dietitian will prepare a plan for an elimination diet (e.g. gluten-free, lactose-free, vegetarian or vegan) to maintain performance and support recovery.

An individual meal plan with portions and macros, versions for training and non-training days, peri-training timing (before/during/after), hydration guidelines, and — where appropriate — supplementation to support training.

Yes — sports dietitians at Made By Diet® work with juniors and youth, ensuring safe development, adequate energy, protein, iron, calcium, and healthy eating habits. We cooperate with coaches and parents, tailoring the plan to school and training.

Yes — we design the plan to match shift schedules (morning/afternoon/night), meal/caffeine timing and hydration; you also receive “travel” and “competition” versions.

Yes. Support includes email/app contact, short online check-ins, monitoring of weight/body composition, and ongoing adjustments to the plan (macros, timing, hydration) to quickly align nutrition with training changes.

Yes. We work with vegetarian and vegan athletes — see our guide Vegetarianism in sport. We optimise protein sources (legumes, tofu/tempeh), look after iron (with absorption promoters), vitamin B12, calcium, iodine and omega-3 (EPA/DHA from microalgae), and we periodise calories and macros to match workload and timing. We monitor blood markers and — where indicated — recommend ergogenic supplementation compatible with a plant-based diet.

Yes, at Made By Diet® we provide nutrition consultations in both Polish and English.

Usually a few months — that’s the time needed to see lasting results. Some athletes work with us for years, treating the dietitian as part of their team.

Book a consultation with a sports dietitian at Made By Diet® — online or in person in Warsaw/Kraków. Before the appointment we send a questionnaire and food diary to complete and ask for laboratory results; we analyse everything beforehand so that at the first visit you receive practical recommendations.

The price depends on the scope of service (nutrition consultation, body composition analysis, written recommendations, meal plan) and any packages; prices are the same online and in person. The current price list can be found in the Offer section.

You can cancel or reschedule yourself via the booking calendar or by email/phone; free of charge up to 24 hours before the scheduled appointment. Details and the cancellation policy are provided in the clinic regulations and in your booking confirmation.

Yes — we deliver corporate wellbeing programmes: nutrition workshops and training, webinars, individual consultations (“dietitian in the company”), Health Days, and health-promotion events. We support workplace wellbeing, reduce sickness absence, and strengthen employer branding.

We start with a brief and needs analysis, then prepare a proposal and schedule (selecting formats: workshops/training, webinars, 1:1 consultations, Health Days). We provide communications and registration (landing page), materials for employees, and a results report (attendance, satisfaction/NPS, implementations). Delivery onsite and online, including for shift and hybrid work.

Yes — we cooperate with sports clubs and companies, offering invoice-based settlements.