Who else to see alongside online coaching: physios, dietitians and specialists we'd actually recommend

Online coaching covers your training program and your nutrition plan. It doesn’t cover everything. If you’re dealing with a nagging injury, a niche performance goal, or a medical condition that needs clinical oversight, the right move is seeing a specialist alongside your coaching, not instead of it. Here’s who does what, and a few Australian professionals worth knowing about if you need one.

When to see a physiotherapist

A coach programs around pain and injury history. A physiotherapist diagnoses and treats it. If something hurts beyond normal training soreness, if a movement has felt “off” for weeks, or if you’re recovering from surgery or a specific injury, that’s a physio’s job, not a coach’s.

Wild Physio Fitness combines physiotherapy with personal training and nutrition coaching, with telehealth available, useful if you want a single practitioner across rehab and training rather than juggling two separate relationships.

Extension Fitness runs a training and nutrition blog written by a physiotherapist, a good general resource if you want to understand the “why” behind common injuries before you book anyone.

Absolute Physio Rehab has physiotherapists and exercise physiologists working alongside an accredited dietitian, useful if your situation touches both rehab and nutrition at once.

When to see a sports dietitian instead of a general nutrition coach

General nutrition coaching (what we do) is built for sustainable diet quality, habits, and body composition goals. A sports dietitian is the right call for something more specific: competition prep, a niche performance goal, or a sport with unusual fuelling demands.

The Sports Dietitian focuses on performance nutrition specifically, a different angle to general body recomposition coaching.

The Climbing Dietitian, Brisbane-based, works specifically with climbers, a good example of how niche sports nutrition can get when the sport demands it.

What we actually do

None of this is a substitute for coaching, it’s what sits alongside it. Our job is the training program, the nutrition plan, and the weekly adjustments based on how you’re actually responding. If something comes up that needs a physio or a specialist dietitian, we’ll say so rather than trying to cover ground outside our scope. If you want to see where you currently stand across training, nutrition and recovery, get your body composition scoreboard and we’ll show you exactly what to prioritise first.