Precision Nutrition is a combination of three synergistic parts.
- The Precision Nutrition Program is a physical hard-copy product you get in the mail or handed in person by one of our coaches (system of guides designed to teach you everything you need to know to get the body you want) Nutritional Re-Education
- The Precision Nutrition Program is coaching like nothing you’ve experienced. It’s something you engage and take full part of along with our coaches and a small group of folks, just like you, with common goals.
- The Precision Nutrition Program is something you take a step further by joining an online community. (a private members-only site with 24/7 support from coaches, expert volunteers and fellow members). It’s the two of those things in combination that make Precision Nutrition what it is: far and away the most comprehensive nutrition program in the world.
So PN is both something you read, and something you’re a part of. It helps to begin by explaining the part you read. Here, then, is what is delivered to your door when you become a member.
The Success Guide
Before beginning any nutrition plan, whether it’s a lifestyle-based plan like Precision Nutrition or a quick-fix, fad program like those you see/read in the media every day, it’s important to start off on the right foot – with the right mind set and the correct information.
In this introductory guide to Precision Nutrition you are provided with an overview of the program and presented with 10 success strategies guaranteed to help you stick with the plan. These strategies and more will be explained in depth during our biweekly meetings
These strategies, taken directly from those who have been successfully following the PN program, will be your “secret weapon” in your quest to change your body and change your life.
The Quick Start Guide 
Rapid body composition changes CAN happen – if you get all the right information, and put it to use immediately. That’s what the Quick Start Guide is for.
Combined with the information in this book, I’ll show you the exact steps that you need to take right away if you’re going to succeed. Every step is laid out in detail, and in less than 45 minutes you will have done precisely what most people never think to do – the critical steps that make all the difference.
The
Diet Guide
This is your comprehensive guide to diet and nutrition. Put aside all the tips, tricks and gimmick
s you’ve heard over the years. Forget everything you’ve been told about nutrition and learn the right information from scratch – in one complete, beginning-to-end system that fills in the blanks and puts everything into proper perspective.
With the Precision Nutrition Diet Guide, everything is covered, from food selection to meal timing to nutrition program design. You will learn everything you need to know to lose fat or gain muscle. You’ll set your goal in the beginning, and you’ll learn exactly what to do to achieve it.
Everything is organized according to it’s importance in the grand scheme of things, and nothing is left to chance. You will walk away knowing exactly what you need to do to build the body you want.
There is only one sure-fire way to continue to get results, and that is to tailor your diet specifically to your body, your goals and the results you’ve gotten in the past. So how do you know how your body differs from others? And once you know, what do you do about it? How do you know what changes to make? The answers are in the Individualization Guide, a step-by-step guide to a complex subject. Combined with the information in this book, I can help make it easy to customize your diet for your specific needs – and you’ll be amazed at the results.
The Super Shake Guide 
You’re on the go all day long. Let’s face it, sometimes things just don’t go right, and you’re stuck without a decent meal. But what do you do then? Blow your plan? Those cheats and missed meals add up quickly, and conspire to destroy your hard-earned progress. Well, not any more. Enter the Super Shake.
Filled with ample amounts of high-quality protein, essential fatty acids and micronutrition, the Super Shake will ensure you never lack great nutrition, no matter where you are or how much time you have. It simply blows the off-the-shelf “meal replacements” out of the water – and you can make it yourself, cheaply and quickly. In the Super Shake Guide, you’ll be shown exactly how to make them and how to customize them for your body type and your goals, and you’ll be provided with several Super Shake recipes to get you started.
The 5 Minute meal Guide 
You’ve got a life. You’ve got a job, a family, a girlfriend / boyfriend / spouse, hobbies or school or other time commitments. What you don’t have is endless time for meal preparation. But guess what? Without that meal preparation, you’re pretty much doomed to body composition hell and the dreaded yo-yo dieting.
With the 5-Minute Meals Guide, however, consider it taken care of. You’ll have a complete list of dozens of delicious, perfect Precision Nutrition meals that can be made in under five minutes. Great nutrition has never been this convenient.
Coupled with the Precision Nutrition system, these assessments allow us to get rapid results with clients. In fact, I’ve done informal testing indicating that regular assessments like these can speed up progress by 50-75% — even using the same exercise and nutrition program.
And in the Measurement Guide I’ll teach you exactly what to assess and how often – from body measurements to performance testing to blood work. Remember, if you’re not assessing, you’re guessing.
The Plant-based Diet Guide 
So we’ve created a new section focused on this category of plant-based diets to help those who choose not to eat meat adapt the Precision Nutrition principles to their dietary needs — and reach the health and fitness goals that elude them.
The Maintenance Guide 
Believe it or not, the most challenging aspect of dieting for most people is not changing their body (losing the weight, for example). It’s maintaining that change over the long-term (e.g., keeping it off!).
Fortunately, though, the maintenance phase can be easier and more enjoyable than the change phase — so long as it’s done right. In this new Maintenance Guide, it’s illustrated exactly how you can keep the body you’ve worked so hard for.
The Support Guide 
From the very beginning, Precision Nutrition has incorporated what they’ve learned is the critical component of a successful nutrition program: support.
You can’t do this alone, nor should you have to. The most successful people in the world have the best support systems, and those who typically don’t make it are quite often those who weren’t supported by the people around them. A colleague of mine once shared a very insightful proverb with me, and I use it often. “You are,” he said, “the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
In the Support Guide, you receive detailed instruction on how to make use of the support around you, and if your “circle of five” isn’t as supportive as you’d like, we show you how to make use of our circle: Me (Coach Shay) , the coaches, other experts and tens of thousands of fellow members just like you who make the PN Member Zone their online home.
“Are these e-books? Do I download them?”
No, these are NOT e-books.
While we have released books in the past as downloadable PDF e-books, that’s not what the Precision Nutrition guides are.
The Precision Nutrition System is a print product that will be sealed and delivered to your door. It comes in one box containing two parts:
- The Precision Nutrition System binder, containing all ten guides, conveniently separated by tabs so you can quickly flip from section to section.
- The Gourmet Nutrition Cookbook, Volume 1, in a spiral-bound format that lays flat on your kitchen counter.
The beauty of the binder system is that it’s completely “modular,” in that you can add more sections to it as your needs change. In our online library, which as a member you’ll have complete access to, you’ll find hundreds of nutrition plans, background articles, training programs, worksheets and much more, covering every conceivable situation you may face as you seek to get fit — and all of which you can download and add to your binder as you need them.
“How is the Precision Nutrition V3 different from previous versions?”
Precision Nutrition is an evolving system, and we’re constantly adapting the program in response to feedback from our over 40,000 members. The latest version of Precision Nutrition, PN V3, is by far the most comprehensive practical nutrition system available today.
V3 has been re-written, re-edited and re-designed from the ground up. Every section has been improved, and three new ones have been added, including:
- The Plant-Based Diet Guide, to address the needs of vegetarians,
- The Maintenance Guide, to help people sustain their results over the long haul by finding a new “normal” that they can be happy with, and
- The Support Guide, to help people with what we’ve learned is THE critical component of a successful nutrition plan: help!
Other changes include:
- Revisions to existing guides, in particular the Diet Guide, Individualization Guide and Measurement Guide to provide more step-by-step instructions suited to your level of expertise, from beginner to right to professional
- Expanded Online Library, with downloadable guides, nutrition plans, research articles and training programs covering every conceivable nutrition situation — and if we don’t already have what you’re looking for, we’ll create it — so that you can personalize the Precision Nutrition System for your particular needs
- Weekly “All About” Articles for members only, covering everything you need to know about specific topics (e.g., past articles include “All About Protein,” “All About Caffeine,” etc.)
- Extensive improvements to the Member Zone, our online support community, including a dedicated team of coaches and expert volunteers available around the clock to point you in the right direction
The Individualization Guide, for example, now includes specific nutrition recommendations for:
- Vegetarians
- Children
- Pregnant women
- Diabetics
- Sport athletes
- Physique athletes
- And more . . .
“What if I need more help with my nutrition plan?”
I can assure you that you almost certainly WILL need more help. You will need support. You will need clarification. You will have questions.
I’ve been doing this long enough now to know what most of those questions will be, and I’ve answered all of the basic ones and many of the advanced ones in the Precision Nutrition system itself.
For those that aren’t answered there, I’ve provided you with a membership to our private, members-only site, where you’ll be able to ask questions and discuss all things nutrition and fitness with our Precision Nutrition coaches, expert volunteers and the thousands of fellow members already online from all around the world.
The “Nutrition Revolution” program includes 12-weeks of individual and group guidance, support, and camaraderie.
You are doing this for yourself, but you are not by yourself. We are with you every step of the way. Once you commit yourself to making a changed here is what you can expect.
1. Enrollment,Scheduling, Initial Forms
Once enrolled you will receive some forms to fill out. Please have these completed prior to your first appointment. We will then schedule your first appointment and get you your PN material.
2. First Appointment – Initial Assessment and first lesson.
Your body composition and body mass will be calculated and recorded. Basically, how much you weigh and how much of that weight is fat and muscle. Don’t worry about these numbers. This is just a bench mark. In a matter of no-time they WILL drastically change.
Lesson #1 will be the 10 Habits (as found in the Gourmet Nutrition eating manual)
3. Begin your nutrition re-education. We’ll discuss realistic goals and determine what you are doing (or not doing) now and what you should (or shouldn’t) do moving forward. You will be shocked at some of the things you didn’t know you didn’t know.
AND…if time with myself or my coaches is not enough….
Precision Nutrition V3 includes one year of support through our private Member Zone, an online community of coaches, experts and over 40,000 members from 87 countries.
The private, members-only site is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. On top of the discussion forums, you’ll find great articles, free Precision Nutrition add-on manuals (all located in our Online Resource Library), fully compatible exercise programs designed by our coaches, and a number of helpful tools like the online Calorie Calculator. Hundreds of reader-submitted recipes are online, complementing the new Gourmet Nutrition meals posted by our chefs. And even better, new stuff is added every day.
As the saying goes, you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. So who are those people, and what influence are they having on you?
Your social support system (or lack thereof) will heavily affect your success. The Precision Nutrition forum provides you the perfect opportunity to supplement your social circle with thousands of like-minded people from around the globe, all pursuing the same goals as you, all facing the same challenges, all willing to help.
With Precision Nutrition, we provide the social support you need, so you can turn that average into something extraordinary.
“Is Precision Nutrition for me?”
The easiest way to describe who Precision Nutrition is for is to tell you who it ISN’T for.
Precision Nutrition is not for people who already have the bodies they want. If you’ve already got the results you desire, and look exactly the way you want to look, your nutrition is sufficient to achieve at least that much. As I said, Precision Nutrition is a results-based program, and if you already got it, flaunt it. But if you think there’s room for improvement to your health, performance or even to the way you look, read on.
Precision Nutrition is also not for people who are just looking for academic educational material. I’ve written plenty of that (including published studies based on my PhD dissertation, numerous nutrition chapters for exercise science textbooks, etc.), and this is something else altogether. Precision Nutrition is a practical, step-by-step system to get real-life results, not a textbook to teach nutritional biochemistry.
BUT, if you’re not yet getting the results you want – if you’re overweight and want to lose fat, or underweight and want to gain muscle, or unhealthy and want to eat healthier, or tired and want increased energy – then Precision Nutrition is definitely, certainly, and absolutely for you.
“But I think my nutrition is already pretty good – do I still need this?”
That’s a good question. But first of all, how do you know your nutrition plan is good?
Because you “try to eat healthy?” Because you think your diet is low-carb, or high-carb, or low-fat or high-fat, or low-protein or high-protein or high in fiber?
Because it looks good on paper?
Or because it meets some other criteria for “pretty good nutrition” that I don’t know about?
Let me lay this out in the clearest, most concise way I know how . . .
If you don’t already have the body you want, then your nutrition plan is not good enough.
Listen, the only one way to determine whether your nutrition plan is any good is look at your results. That’s the plain truth. I don’t care if your plan meets so-and-so’s guidelines, or is “low-carb” or contains enough vitamin C or whatever the latest B.S. indicator of good nutrition is in the popular press.
There is only one rule: what works is good; what doesn’t is not. That’s the only rule I live by.
Precision Nutrition is entirely outcome-based – it’s about getting results and nothing else. So if you want to know whether Precision Nutrition is right for you, then just ask yourself this question:
“Do I have the body I really, truly want?”
Answer it honestly – don’t worry, no one is listening.
If the answer is yes, then great.
But if you answered no – “in all honesty, I don’t yet have the body I really want” – then I can say without the slightest hesitation that Precision Nutrition is exactly what you need. Optimizing your nutrition plan is the true secret to transforming your body – and Precision Nutrition shows you exactly how to do it.
“OK, so what does all this cost?”
Let me warn you: if you’re looking for a casual read, a celebrity diet, a tip here and there, or something to sit on the coffee table, I strongly recommend you look elsewhere.
But if you’ve finally decided it’s time to get serious about building the body you’ve always wanted, you’re in the right place.
Simply put, Precision Nutrition is a no-nonsense approach to getting results, based on the latest research and my years of experience in the field. It’s a complete system, built for one purpose only: to give you precise control over your body through nutrition. There is nothing else like it.
To give you a comparison: working with Dr. John Berardi, or Dr. Shay directly to learn how to do this costs a minimum of $1500 and takes at least four months. It’s the surest way to transform your body, as my coaches and I will cover every base and save you from your mistakes before they happen. But obviously, not everyone can spend that kind of money.
So I designed Precision Nutrition to take everything you would learn working with us directly over a four-month period and condense it into one complete system that covers all contingencies. And for one-tenth of the price.
The Precision Nutrition system, complete with all 10 guides, the Gourmet Nutrition cookbook, the Precision Nutrition Audio and Video Library, and the Precision Nutrition All-Access Online Membership costs only $147. For less than it costs for a single hour of my time, and less than three hours with a personal trainer, you get the nutrition knowledge you need for a lifetime in a better body.
Dr. Shay has taken a great program (Precision Nutrition) and has made it exponentially better.
The “Nutrition Revolution” program provides the catalyst to your success. Can you gain everything you need to succeed from just the PN program alone. Possibly! Yet, highly unlikely. If you could you would not be reading this, you’d purchase PN as stand-alone, and you’d already have or be on the way of attaining the body of your dreams. I’d bet you may need a little help. There is nothing wrong with that. I have been in the fitness and health industry for decades. Guess what? I need help too. Besides, it’s fun to work with like-minded people that want to improve themselves. How can we accomplish this. Change your belief system. It’s NOT working for you. It’s really not your fault. We’ll work with you to realize this.
The Nutrition Revolution program will re-educate you. It will take you from a beginner to an expert, from fat to fit, in the shortest time possible. Best of all – it will keep you there.
I want YOU to be a nutritional expert. I want you to know what is best for you and your goals. Why? It makes my job as a coach that much easier. It allows me to focus on teaching, coaching, and motivating you to push harder, and harder.
Well. “if I become an expert, what will I need you for?” You may not need me. That’s OK. I’m alright with cutting you loose. The “Nutrition Revolution” program is designed for three months. After that there are options to continue working together. As you reach your goals, you will set more goals. It is not uncommon for people to have a major transformation and decide to compete in a sport or event that they once ‘only dreamed of” As long as you are willing to grow, and learn, we are willing to be right there with you.
Your time and financial investment in the “Nutrition revolution Coach” program is 12 weeks and $750 USD. Pay in full and it’s just $600. Need to split the payment up? No problem. Pay just $250 now and the rest over the next two months.
Hope over to the store to choose your option and get Registered TODAY!
But wait there’s more… You also get
The Gourmet Nutrition Book 
This is no ordinary cookbook. It’s an assault on nutrition-poor, bad-tasting food everywhere. John challenged his good friend and healthy cooking master craftsman Dr. John K. Williams to come up with 100 gourmet-quality recipes that meet all of his nutritional requirements for body composition, health and performance, and he came through big-time. Complete with everything from 5-star meals that will impress even the most jaded food critic, to quick fixes that will get the job done on the go, plus a section on general cooking instruction and tips, this book will forever change the way you think about nutrition. You’ll finally eat delicious meals that make you look and feel better, rather than worse.