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Performance Programs for Athletes

There’s an athlete in all of us.  No matter what you’re doing in life, sometimes you need the endurance of a marathon runner, the focus of a sharpshooter, or the strength of a weight lifter.  You don’t get these powers by popping vitamins.

Top athletic performance is not about swallowing the next breakthrough supplement, it’s about finding your unique deficiencies and correcting them with targeted nutrition and lifestyle changes.

You’re bio-chemically unique.  The effects of stress on your body are different than in anyone else.  Your athletic performance program also must be unique.  Do you think you’re getting the best sports performance advice?  If you’re not looking at the cellular level, be ready to have your mind blown.

About Russ Scala, Founder


Russ Scala has been helping high-level athletes get in The Zone for over 30 years.  His unique background as a paramedic attached to a SWAT team helped him find connections between disparate groups of people that had something in common:  the need to optimize athletic performance.  Think about it, what does a senior citizen, a cancer patient and a triathlete all have in common?  The need to prevent muscle wasting.

While with the SWAT team from 1984 to 1990, Russ competed in two SWAT competitions which included rigorous running and shooting tests.  To increase the performance of his team, he added nutritional protocols and high-intensity interval training.  The focus and elite fitness his team developed through this training allowed them to successfully compete–and kept them alive.

Russ’ lifelong curiosity about personalized medicine and the biochemical uniqueness of individuals encouraged him to experiment with his own athletic performance as a triathlete for 20 years.  In 2006, almost 10 years before it became mainstream, Russ swam 12.6 miles around Key West while on the ketogenic diet.

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Testing Athletes Since 1984

At Scala Precision Health, we’ve developed programs for athletes of all levels in a variety of sports, including basketball, baseball, football, tennis and golf.  Russ Scala personally tested and created protocols for athletes from the Celtics and Yankees, along with professional endurance athletes.

In 1984, it was groundbreaking to test for hormonal and nutritional deficiencies in athletes.  Everyone was looking for an edge in performance and recovery–and the next new supplement to take.  With his background in physiology, Russ knew to look at treating multiple metabolic systems as a whole.

In 1995, Russ began examining athletes on the cellular level to determine mitochondrial function and investigate intestinal flora.  Your mitochondria create energy at the cellular level–every move you make involves the mitochondria–they are the cornerstone of athletic performance.

Traditional research has typically ignored the microbiome as an area to enhance performance.  You are not what you eat, you are what you absorb. The gut-brain connection also influences hormone production and other metabolic processes.

We know today that enhancing performance is multi-factorial and must be personalized to each athlete’s biomarkers.  Modern testing has become more specific in the area of biochemical individuality (i.e., personalized performance).

Scala Precision Health has always understood that each athlete is biochemically unique and there is no one diet, supplement or training program for everyone.

CONSISTENTLY PERFORM AT OPTIMIZED LEVELS

Nick Anderson

Orlando, FL

Russ and Nick talk about emotional highs and lows, the effects of stress and the new nutritional program for current and former athletes.

Golf Program

Russ explains how golfers can benefit from a personalized nutrition program.

Stephanie Nickitas, Former UCF Tennis Head Coach

How special testing at the genetic level, along with tailored supplement and training programs, helped Stephanie overcome weight gain and sleep disturbances that were slowing her down.

Shelly Helmbrecht, Nutrition & Exercise Physiologist

Winter Park, FL

A competitive swimmer for 20 years, Shelly tells us her story about overtraining and the impact it had on her overall health.

If you're like most of our clients, you're seeking:

  • Quicker recovery
  • The ability to focus, on demand, at crucial moments
  • More stamina
  • To stay in your game longer

Find your edge when you correct your deficiencies.

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