Helen is an Advanced Sports Dietitian and an ANZAED Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician with 15 years of experience in High-Performance Nutrition.
She guides individuals through collaborative coaching, focusing on meal timing and food choices to:
- Boost energy levels (avoid RED-S)
- Enhance physical and mental well-being
- Minimise injury and illness risks
- Support healing and rehabilitation post-injury or surgery
Helen's expertise covers:
- Eating challenges (including Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating) in elite athletes across various sports like Gymnastics, Performance Arts, Swimming, Football (Soccer), AFL, and Cricket. She specializes in assisting males dealing with eating challenges in high-pressure environments.
- Emerging nutrition strategies for healing musculoskeletal injuries, improving bone health, and nutrition's holistic role in concussive injury rehabilitation.
From 2012 to 2024, Helen served as the Senior Sports Performance Dietitian, leading the high-performance nutrition programs at Cricket Victoria, The Melbourne Stars BBL/WBBL, and The Melbourne Renegades BBL/WBBL. She also led the National AFL Academy, AFL Vic Hub programs for four years, and provided the nutrition program within St Kilda Football Club's Saints Next Generation Academy between 2018-2021.
Additionally, Helen has ten seasons of experience leading the Performance Nutrition program at the VFL Sandringham Zebras, worked with the inaugural intakes of the AFLW Academy from 2017-2019, and provided consultation during the inaugural year of the A-League Western United Football Club in 2019.
Bookings:https://www.halaxy.com/profile/helen-duong-apd-advanced-sports-dietitian/location/617651
