What Pillar Prep can do

Training and recovery

• Design, plan, and supervise long-term training for amateurs up to elite professionals.

• Assess physical capacities related to fitness and performance.

• Educate and guide clients on safe exercise practices.

• Assist with post-acute injury phase for return to sport.  Once a physiotherapist (kinésithérapeute) has medically cleared an athlete, we can legally design the structural protocols to bridge the gap between clinical rehab and sports practice, training and competition.

• Support motivation, adherence, and long-term physical activity.

• Adapt training programs based on fatigue, performance, and non-medical feedback.

• Provide general education related to physical activity and healthy lifestyle habits.

• Plan structural recovery protocols within  training cycles (managing tapering, overreaching, and residual fatigue). Program and guide athletes through standard, non-medical recovery protocols based on scientific literature (e.g., cold-water immersion/cryotherapy scheduling, active recovery protocols, stretching protocols, and contrast baths).

• Educate, track, and advise athletes on sleep optimizations to maximize physiological adaptation.

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Nutrition

• Provide nutritional education about macronutrients, micronutrients, hydration, and energy balance.

• Calculate energy expenditure and macronutrient requirements matched to specific training phases (e.g., match-day carbohydrate loading, recovery macro windows, or hyper-targeted protein targets for body composition).

• Design strategies for pre-, intra-, and post-workout fueling, carbohydrate loading, or recovery windows specific to their sport.

• Suggest general serving guides for recovery, performance and well-being. 

• Discuss body composition goals with clients and use general macro breakdowns to help healthy clients reach weight or performance targets.

• Educate clients on sports supplements, their benefits, use and risks. 

• Run workshops or individual sessions teaching athletes food quality, nutrient timing, hydration monitoring, and basic ergogenic supplementation safety (anti-doping rules).

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Mental preparation​

• Train athletes in mental skills to enhance athletic performance, such as goal setting, focus control, stress management, internal dialogue tracking, visualization, and routine building.​

• Provide cognitive Skill Training such as arousal regulation (breathing, progressive muscle relaxation), imagery/visualization, internal dialogue/self-talk restructuring, and attentional focus strategies.

• Utilize non-clinical, sport-specific psychometric scales (e.g., the OMSAT for mental skills, POMS for mood states, or BRUMS) to monitor fatigue, overreaching, and psychological readiness of clients for performance diagnostics.

• Manage and optimize the psychological skills, communication and leadership skills and framework within a sports squad or coaching staff for improving individual or team performance. 

• Manage the psychological components of long-term injury recovery (fear of re-injury, kinesiophobia, rebuilding athletic identity, and managing goal-setting through rehab milestones).

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What Pillar Prep does not do

Training, recovery and injury rehabilitation

• Diagnose medical conditions or injuries

• Prescribe or modify medical treatments or medications

• Provide rehabilitation or therapeutic exercise following injury or surgery. This is the exclusive domain of the Masseur-Kinésithérapeute (Art. L4321-1 of the Code de la Santé Publique)

• Perform physiotherapy, manual therapy, or medical manipulations

• Interpret medical tests, blood work, or imaging.

• Prescribe medical devices, medicinal or therapeutic recovery substances or perform medical/paramedical acts or use advanced medical recovery equipment meant exclusively for physical therapists.

Mental preparation​

• Diagnose or treat clinical psychiatric conditions, deep-seated psychological trauma, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), or severe Clinical Eating Disorders (Troubles des Conduites Alimentaires - TCA).​ In these cases, client will be referred out. Our role ends where deep psychotherapeutic intervention begins.

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Nutrition

In France, the titles of Diététicien and Nutritionniste are heavily protected by law (Code de la Santé Publique). Without a specific medical track or a state-recognized dietician degree (like a BTS Diététique or BUT Génie Biologique option Diététique), we cannot:

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• ​Prescribe individualized diets, meal plans, or medical nutrition therapy.

• Provide individualized meal plans for pathological conditions (diabetes, eating disorders) are reserved for Diététiciens or Nutritionnistes.

• Recommend or prescribe dietary supplements

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Health conditions and medical clearance

Clients are responsible for informing the coach of any known medical conditions, injuries, or limitations. When necessary, the client may be required to obtain medical clearance from a qualified healthcare professional before beginning or continuing physical training.

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When a situation exceeds the scope of physical training, Pillar Prep will refer the client to an appropriate healthcare professional (physician, physiotherapist, or registered dietitian).

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Pillar Prep is committed to operating strictly within its professional role and in compliance with applicable French laws and professional standards.​

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