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ADVOCACY, EDUCATION, CATEGORY PROMOTION
Learn more about how CRN is elevating sports nutrition through advocacy, education, and category promotion through staff and member committee, working group, and task force efforts.
Elevating sports nutrition is one of CRN's Priority Initiatives. 
Research continues to demonstrate the role dietary supplements and functional foods can play for improving performance, faster recovery, and longevity, among other benefits. CRN is developing programs to showcase sports nutrition awareness and growth while protecting these products from unreasonable and uninformed efforts to restrict their sale.
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CRN's SNWG brings together a broad range of specialists in this space including members from Nestlé Health Science, Nutrition 21, Herbalife, Nutrasource, NSF International, Banned Substances Control Group, Vital Proteins and many more.
- Non-members: Learn more about how you can be a part of CRN's Sports Nutrition Working Group through CRN membership.
- CRN Members: Get information and details on how to sign up for the Sports Nutrition Working Group via our self-service portal here.
ADVOCACY
Learn more about how CRN is working to ensure access to lawful dietary supplement products
EDUCATION
CRN Sports Nutrition Working Group June 15 session emphasizes importance of safety, education for athletes at all levels
“You can have all of the best products in the world but if they’re not tested for sport, athletes shouldn’t be taking them,” said Samantha Clayton, former Olympic athlete and vice president, Worldwide Sports Performance and Fitness for CRN member Herbalife, during CRN's second Sports Nutrition Working Group (SNWG) Olympics-themed webinar—now available on demand for CRN members. Speakers emphasized the importance of third-party certification for sports nutrition supplements and education for athletes—both elite and recreational—about safe products.
"Determining whether sports nutrition ingredients meet compliance requirements of [DSHEA] is vital but challenging. Interpreting where an ingredient fits in the scope of banned substances in sport is even more of a quandary," said Oliver Catlin and Rick Collins in Natural Products Insider. As Olympian Alise Willoughby noted during the SNWG webinar, elite athletes are under tremendous pressure and stress to avoid products that could be dangerous or get them in career-ending trouble. Mr. Catlin, president and co-founder of the Banned Substances Control Group (BSCG), previously spoke during CRN's first Olympics-themed SNWG session.
In light of COVID-19, Shawn Heuglin, Ph.D., RD, sport dietician with the U.S. Olympic Committee, noted that Olympic athletes planning for upcoming international competition are paying special attention to immune and gut health. Additionally, maintaining a consistent nutrition routine is crucial as athletes head into unfamiliar and high-stress environments.
Personalization and gummy delivery formats continue to gain popularity, particularly for elite athletes, noted Dana Ryan, Ph.D., MBA, director of sport performance and education at Herbalife.
CRN Members can read the full story to learn what supplement products athletes and sport dietitians rely on, according to our speakers. speakers reported that they regularly take and recommend.
Non-members: Learn more about how you can be a part of CRN's Sports Nutrition Working Group through CRN membership.
ANOTHER RECENT ITEM FROM THE CRN DAILY SUPPLEMENT:
CRN Sports Nutrition Working Group talks adulteration, athletic training ahead of Olympics
"We have a lot to think about not only in combatting grossly illegal products like SARMs, but we also have a lot to do to protect and evaluate the legitimate product industry and make sure that legitimate dietary supplements are not caught up in some of these regulations of banned substances in sport as we progress into the future," said Oliver Catlin, president and co-founder of the Banned Substances Control Group, during the CRN Sports Nutrition Working Group's (SNWG) first Olympics-themed webinar focusing on issues surrounding adulteration—now available on demand for CRN members.
Learn about responsible industry's efforts to address adulterated ingredients and products masquerading at dietary supplements
Are you aware of Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators (SARMs), unapproved, illegal, and dangerous compounds found in performance-enhancing products? When used in dietary supplement products, sometimes with names like “ostarine” and “andarine,” they can pose a serious threat to consumer safety, particularly in the bodybuilding and fitness communities. SARMs have no business being marketed to consumers as dietary supplements. Learn more.
CATEGORY PROMOTION
CRN's Consumer Survey on Dietary Supplements 2020 data shows that 30% of supplement users take sports nutrition supplements.
CRN survey shows growth in sports nutrition supplement use during COVID-19
EXCERPTED FROM THE CRN DAILY SUPPLEMENT
The sports nutrition category saw a 33% increase overall among those supplement users who changed their routine due to the pandemic, with the greatest increase seen in younger adults, age 18–34, according to a recent Ipsos-CRN consumer survey.
Learn more about CRN's Consumer Survey on Dietary Supplements and COVID-19-focused survey. Data now available for purchase.
- Non-members: Learn more about how you can be a part of CRN's Sports Nutrition Working Group through CRN membership.
- CRN Members: Get information and details on how to sign up for the Sports Nutrition Working Group via our self-service portal here.