Ian Craig

BSc MSc INLPTA NLP Practitioner

Lecturer

Ian is an exercise physiologist, nutritional therapist, NLP practitioner and an endurance coach. He was a competitive middle-distance runner for 20 years and is now a more leisurely runner and cyclist. Ian specialises in integrative sports nutrition, a fast-evolving discipline that considers both health and performance of an athlete from an integrative health perspective. He is the editor of Functional Sports Nutrition magazine, the leader of the IHCAN Sports Nutrition annual conference, and is the founder of the Centre for Integrative Sports Nutrition, which will launch post-graduate training in 2018. In Ian’s adopted home of South Africa, he runs a private nutritional therapy practice in Johannesburg and he recently published his first book (Wholesome Nutrition). Ian has supported CNELM over many years. Ian was a first class honours graduate of the BSc Hons Nutritional Therapy degree in 2006. Prior to Ian graduated with a first class degree in Physiology in Sports Science, followed by an an MSc in Exercise and Sport Science. When living in the UK he was a Module Leader on the BSc programme, Senior Clinical Supervisor and a Research Supervisor. Ian continues to support CNELM as a contributing lecturer to the postgraduate Personalised Sports Module.