sports nutrition category
2025 Vity Awards
Vitamin Retailer (VR) magazine once again polled its retailer readers on their top-selling products and best sales and merchandising support to compile its 2025 Vity Awards. After all, who is better qualified to determine the industry’s bestselling products than the people who sell them? What started in the 1990s has evolved into one of the ...
The Women Sports Nutrition Category Explodes!
Women’s sports is on the rise – BIG TIME! All you have to do is turn on your TV. Stadiums and arenas are sold out. TV ratings are through the roof. With rock star women athletes like WNBA basketball star Caitlin Clark and Olympic Gold medalist sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, among others, leading the way, the ...
2024 Vity Awards
Vitamin Retailer (VR) magazine once again polled its retailer readers on their top-selling products and best sales and merchandising support to compile its 2024 Vity Awards. After all, who is better qualified to determine the industry’s bestselling products than the people who sell them? What started in the 1990s has evolved into one of the ...
Talking Sports Nutrition With Trisha Sugarek MacDonald
Vitamin Retailer reached out to Trisha Sugarek MacDonald, BS, MS, Sr. Director of Research & Development/ National Educator for Sugar Land, TX-based Bluebonnet Nutrition (bluebonnetnutrition.com) with a few questions about sports nutrition, and here’s what she had to say. VR: What are main drivers of the sports nutrition space? Sugarek MacDonald: Drivers of the sports ...
Muscle & Strength: How Active Nutrition Is the Name of the Game
The Panel: Christopher Bailey, PhD, Director of Scientific Affairs, Gencor, Orlando, FL, www.gencorpacific.com Ramona Billingslea, Marketing Manager, Betsy’s Health Foods, Spring, TX, https://betsyhealth.com Katie Emerson, MS, RD, LDN, Manager of Scientific Affairs, Nutrition21, Saddle Brook, NJ, https://nutrition21.com Douglas Kalman, PhD, RD, FACN, FISSN, Clinical Associate Professor, Nova Southeastern University and Partner in Substantiation Sciences, Inc., ...
2022 Vity Awards
Vitamin Retailer (VR) magazine once again polled its retailer readers on their top-selling products and best sales and merchandising support to compile its 2022 Vity Awards. After all, who is better qualified to determine the industry’s bestselling products than the people who sell them? What started in the 1990s has evolved into one of the ...
Activating Your Fitness Nutrition Department
Sports nutrition has evolved to become more encompassing and relevant to many consumers. Here’s how to update your active nutrition section. In 2020 there was a rather dramatic irony: gyms were closed for awhile due to the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet one way in which people used this time was to resolve ...
Pump It Up!
It is no secret that building and maintaining muscle mass is incredibly important to the human body. The skeletal muscles work with the bones to allow the body to move and give it strength and power. According to the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), strength refers to the muscle’s ability to generate force at ...
Sports Transformation
The pumped-up bodybuilder representing the sports nutrition category has given way to a broader range of consumers seeking clean products that address various fitness goals and overall health. It can be said that Nostradamus had nothing on Joe Weider. In a 1950 editorial printed in the July issue of Your Physique magazine, the legendary bodybuilder ...
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