President & Founder of Critical Reload, Mike Bewley, discusses how he uses Polar Team Pro to accurately evaluate an athletes’ fitness levels. Polar Team Pro combines GPS and motion tracking technology with heart rate monitoring to create the ultimate solution for player performance tracking in team sports. Coaches can follow their team’s training in real time on your iPad. Get invaluable and accurate training data for analysis for everyone in your coaching staff.
Bewley is former Director of Basketball Strength & Conditioning Coach and Specialist in Sports Nutrition for Clemson University. He has been using Polar products extensively during his career.
In 2002, Bewley earned his certification as a certified specialist in sports nutrition through the International Sports Science Association. Since that time, Coach Bewley has accumulated extensive experience assisting athletes with their performance nutrition needs while founding Critical Reload in 2004.
His proficiencies as a specialist in sports nutrition include:
- Recognize nutritional factors affecting health and performance that will enable appropriate nutritional counseling with Director of Sports Nutrition for Olympic Sports.
- Disseminate factual knowledge of performance enhancing substances and provide persuasive evidence to student-athletes as the effects, risks, and appropriate alternatives.
- Measure and monitor athlete and team body composition.
- Analyze nutritional habits of athletes to determine the steps necessary to modify and provide a balanced diet.
- Coordinate meal planning for at home and in-season travel.
- Serve as liaison between athletics department and food services to oversee all facets of training table nutrition and scheduling.
- Founded Critical Reload App (formally called NutraCarina), an intuitive online platform that seamlessly combines the nation’s top specialists in sports nutrition and sport dietitians with cutting edge technology.
- Utilize smart phone technology to monitor nutritional habits of athletes for dietary exploration, education, and application.
- Use product hardware and software to formulate daily caloric expenditure to estimate training table/travel menus, appropriate individual hydration requirements and enhance exercise recovery.
- All the above nutritional practices virtually eliminate in-season weight-loss while helping enhance performance development year-round.
Bewley has been a Division-I collegiate strength and conditioning coach since 1998 making stops at University of Nevada-Reno, Georgia Southern University, University of Dayton, Georgia Tech and Clemson University.
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