Nutrition

Yorker can build a personalised cricket nutrition plan — daily energy and macro targets computed from your profile, meals timed around training and matches, hydration guidance, and supplement recommendations graded by the strength of their evidence.

Generating a plan

Open the coach chat and switch to Nutrition mode, then ask for what you need. Be specific about:

• Your schedule — "I have a T20 on Saturday and train Tuesday and Thursday evenings"
• Your goal — building muscle, losing weight, match-day fuelling, or general performance
• Constraints — "I'm vegetarian", "I don't eat before 9 am", "no dairy"
• Budget and kitchen reality — home-cooked, hostel mess, or eating out

The plan's energy and macro targets are not guessed by the model — they are computed deterministically from your profile's weight, height, and age, using sports-nutrition reference formulas. Targets are expressed in grams per kilogram of body weight first, with total grams and calories derived from them.

What a plan includes

• Daily targets — protein, carbohydrate, and fat targets with the calorie total they reconcile to
• Periodised days — separate heavy days (match or hard training) and light or rest days, because carbohydrate needs swing much more than protein needs
• A meal timeline — meals timed across the day, each with foods, portions, and macros
• Hydration — a daily baseline plus intra-session fluid guidance and the conditions it assumes (heat, humidity, session length)
• Supplements, graded — each recommendation carries an evidence badge (AIS group A/B, ACSM, or general) so you can tell well-supported basics like creatine and caffeine apart from weaker claims

Honest about its gaps

Every plan states what it was actually built on. The Built for row on the card shows the profile inputs used (weight, height, age, role, format, goal), and the Assumptions & how to refine section lists anything the coach had to assume — plus what to log or share to sharpen the next version. If your profile is missing a field, the plan says so rather than pretending precision it does not have.

Profile fields that improve personalization

The more of these your cricket profile carries, the sharper the plan:

• Weight and height — drive the energy and per-kilogram macro targets directly
• Age and sex — adjust energy needs and unlock female-athlete guidance (iron, RED-S screening, bone health)
• Playing role and format — a fast bowler's match day is fuelled differently from a keeper's
• Goals — muscle gain, fat loss, or endurance shift the calorie side of the plan

Example prompts

• "Build me a nutrition plan for a four-day training week with a Sunday one-day match"
• "I'm a 17-year-old fast bowler trying to gain muscle — what should I eat?"
• "Vegetarian match-day fuelling plan, breakfast to close of play"
• "What should I drink during a two-hour net session in 35-degree heat?"

Tip: Tell the coach about allergies, religious or cultural food rules, and foods you simply will not eat — the plan adjusts rather than prescribing around you.

Saving and revisiting plans

Plans generated in chat are saved automatically to your Nutrition Plans page — the card shows a "Saved" badge with a link to your plan library. On the Nutrition Plans page you can reopen the full plan, delete plans you have outgrown, or hit Continue in chat to refine one with the coach as your schedule, weight, or goals change.

Nutrition guidance on Yorker is general sports-nutrition education, not medical advice. For medical conditions, eating-disorder history, or clinical diets, consult a registered sports dietitian or doctor.