Advance your career with confidence

Develop a unique skill set in sleep, stress management, and recovery—giving you a competitive edge as a coach who sees the bigger picture of health and performance.

Make a difference serving a special population

Use Precision Nutrition's proven Deep Health Approach to help clients overcome plateaus, uncover hidden stressors, and thrive in ways they never thought possible.

Stand out from the competition

Expand your impact and income by offering highly valuable coaching that improves not only physical health, but also relationships, mindset, emotions, and resilience.

Become a Certified SSR Coach

 
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$649.00 $454.30

Designed for professionals like you, seeking to make a greater impact.

While anyone can purchase and complete this program, it was designed with the following professionals in mind:

How it works

This self-paced online program features over 40 hours of dedicated content, including interactive videos, case studies, and simulated coaching conversations. You'll complete 25 short exams (10–15 questions each) and must pass all modules with a score of 75% or higher to earn your certificate of completion from Precision Nutrition.

What you'll learn

This course integrates physiology, psychology, and coaching practice to help you deliver sustainable results. You'll study the science of sleep, the short- and long-term effects of stress, and the body's recovery processes, while also learning Precision Nutrition's step-by-step method for building personalized plans. Through real-world case studies and practical exercises, you'll practice how to guide clients in optimizing recovery, improving resilience, and making lasting lifestyle changes.

Learn the Precision Nutrition framework for helping anyone achieve their goals, including:

  • What makes a great coach
  • How to set yourself up for the best learning experience
  • The "deep health" approach to coaching that transforms lives, not just bodies
  • How to help people change—in a way that works for them
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Recorded Video
Online Quiz

Dive into the science of nutrition in an easy-to-understand format, including:

  • Physical stressors, such as an illness or physical fatigue
  • Mental or cognitive stressors, like information overload
  • Emotional stressors, like grief and loss
  • Social stress in your relationships
  • Existential stress during a life transition
  • Environmental stressors in your workplace

Plus, explore how each of these areas affect (and can be affected by) sleep, the "recovery rockstar."

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Learning Activity
Recorded Video
Online Quiz

Take a deeper look into the science of sleep and the 4 key areas to focus recovery efforts: sleep, nutrition, movement and stress management. Discover:

  • How to track progress in improving recovery behaviors such as sleep
  • What nutrition habits can support recovery
  • What types of movement can help improve long-term physical performance
  • Which mental skills can help manage and even embrace stressors when they can't be reduced
  • The complexity of sleep and its role in recovery
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Learning Activity
Recorded Video
Online Quiz

Bring everything together by understanding how to apply what you've learned—so you can create personalized sleep, stress management, and recovery plans for yourself and your clients. You'll climb into the driver's seat, test things out and experience the process in real time. Rather than more information, you'll get experiments, activities, reflection questions and challenges.

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Learning Activity
Recorded Video
Online Quiz

Meet the experts

The Precision Nutrition Sleep, Stress Management and Recovery Course features expert instructors, including:

Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine

Board Certified in Sleep Medicine by both the American Board of Sleep Medicine and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

CEO and Founder of Wells Performance and Associate Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Toronto

Precision Nutrition's Director of Curriculum and published fitness, nutrition and psychology author

Precision Nutrition's Science Advisor and Recovery coauthor of Precision Nutrition's Level 1 Nutrition Certification textbook

Director of Nutrition at Precision Nutrition and coauthor of PN's Level 1 Nutrition Coaching Certification textbook

Curriculum Advisor and Writer for Precision Nutrition and Behavior Change Coach

Precision Nutrition's Exercise Systems and Program Director

Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto

Specializes in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience and conducts clinical research in a sleep lab specializing in sleep performance metrics

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Excellent !!! Science-based, and practical.

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