Why do athletes need supplements? At athletic Republic, we believe that the right nutritional supplements are an important part of a good health and wellness routine. For athletes whose bodies and brains are developing rapidly, that process needs to be supported. Nutritional supplements can ensure that they are getting all the vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients they need, particularly if their diet is skewed more than it should be towards fast food or junk food. Athletes who are as healthy as possible are going to be able to take better advantage of training and succeed in competition.
For adult athletes, supplements can be important because as we age our bodies change, we process food differently, and don’t absorb all nutrients like we did when we were young. When you exercise, get sick, or travel, your body gets depleted of essential nutrients you can’t get them all back through food. For adults, the purpose of supplements isn’t about getting the edge on your components, but we like to think of it more as filling the tank, so you don’t hit empty and stall out.
Athletic Republic has entered into a partnership with Klean Athlete to help ensure the health and performance of its clients and trainers throughout its network of sports performance training centers. From the minute a client enters one of our training centers, our goal is to make sure they have the best time, best workout, and leave feeling a sense of personal gain. But once they leave our doors there isn’t much that Athletic Republic trainers and staff can really do to preserve those gains. By offering Klean’s line of exceptionally high quality nutritional supplements at a fair price, AR training centers are able to continue to support their clients.
In choosing a nutritional support partner, athlete safety was of paramount concern. Professional and high-level amateur athletes must be critically aware of what goes into their bodies, and it shouldn’t be any different for anyone else, either. It caught our attention that products from Klean Athlete have passed inspection with the NSF Certified for Sport program, which means they do not contain banned substances which could lead to positive tests during sporting events or elsewhere. A test result like this could have a serious impact on an athlete’s career. In addition to being free of the 270+ substances banned by major athletic organizations, it means that the contents of the supplements match what is printed on the label, there are no unsafe levels of contaminants, and every participating facility is audited twice a year for quality and compliance. Klean’s entire product line is also free of GMOs, gluten, and artificial coloring, flavoring, or sweeteners. In other words, Klean was a partner that we, and our clients, could trust.
In developing our offerings from Klean, we structured them to reflect the different needs of athletes of different ages, as described above. The Acceleration protocol was developed to meet the needs of developing athletes, while the Adult protocol is geared towards, obviously, adults. One of the products that is most key for adults is Vitamin D. As a majority of our training centers are above the 37th parallel, it become increasingly harder to maintain the storage of vitamin D. When you combine that with increasing age, it becomes clear that most people will eventually have to start to supplement Vitamin D to maintain bone strength and bone density.
Within each protocol, we’ve bundled them to address the different needs and goals of our athletes and to work on specific functions of the body. The “Daily Essentials” bundle includes products designed for everyday use, to help athletes live healthy, train smart, and be at their best. The “Endurance” bundle helps athletes whose training and competitions feature heavy aerobic loads. The “Strength” line supports those focusing on building strength in their workouts.
For more information about the Klean Athlete line of supplements contact an Athletic Republic center near you. You can also shop directly at https://shop.athleticrepublic.com/collections/klean-athlete
