High School, Collegiate & Youth Team Sports
To build better athletes you must start with the metabolic foundation instead of the ‘sugar’ shortcut.
- Strength.
- Stamina.
- Energy.
- Focus.
- Coordination.
- Recovery.
Young athletes are being asked to train harder, compete more often, travel farther, and recover faster than ever.
But developing an athlete isn’t just about adding more workouts, scrimmages or drills.
It starts and ends with establishing a metabolic foundation on which lasting health & performance are built upon.
Set yourself or your child up for health & performance that will last a lifetime!
where fuel, not fitness, fails.
games per tournament weekend a sugar plan can’t cover
optimize recovery windows between shifts, tournament games/matches or training and competitions
Too Much Sugar . . .
Everyone knows too much sugar is toxic. What most don't know is our bodies see all those carbs as sugar (glucose).
- Cereal & Oatmeal
- Chips & crackers
- Fast Food
- Granola & Nut Bars
- Juice boxes
- Sports & Energy Drinks
- Sports Gels
- Fruit
- Pasta, Rice & Bread
It's sugar plain & simple!
You trained your body to perform but did you train your metabolism to perform the way it was designed to?
- Their body.
- Their nervous system.
- Their movement patterns.
- Their strength.
- Their endurance.
- Their relationship with food.
- Their understanding of training and recovery cycles.
That’s why performance nutrition shouldn’t only ask:
“How do we get this athlete to perform better this weekend?”
It should also ask:
"How do we help athletes become stronger, fitter, faster and robust for years to come?"
OFM’s approach is built around building metabolic capacity as a foundation for both immediate performance and long-term health & performance.
The Game Doesn't Get Easier.
Build Better. Build Healthier. Build Performance.
Youth, Middle School, High School and Collegiate athletes face:
- Multiple practices each week
- Strength and conditioning sessions
- Games and tournaments
- Travel
- Early mornings
- Late practices
- Back-to-back competitions
- Academic demands
- Limited recovery time
The challenge isn’t simply having enough energy for one game or practice.
It's supporting the athlete through the entire training, competition, recovery & adptation cycle.
From Practice To Game Day
- A field sports player jogs, sprints and decelerates repeatedly.
- A basketball player jumps, cuts, accelerates and recovers dozens of times.
- A football player alternates explosive plays with brief periods of recovery.
- A hockey player goes from rest to maximum effort during a shift.
The metabolic demands constantly change.
Your athlete needs an engine capable of changing with them.
High School Athletes
Build The Metabolic Foundation.
High school is where many athletes establish the habits that follow them into collegiate sports and adulthood.
This is the time to learn:
- How to train
- How to recover and adapt
- How to fuel; Dietary habits, nutritional awareness, proper hydration
- How to listen to and take care of their body
- How to manage the demands and pressure of competition
- How to build sustainable performance habits
Don’t just prepare for the next game. Prep for Life!
Collegiate Athletes
College athletes face a different level of demand.
- More training.
- More competition.
- More travel.
- More strength work.
- More pressure.
And often less time to recover.
At this level, small performance limitations can become major competitive differences.
Youth Team Sports
Start With The Right Foundation.
Young athletes don’t need complicated performance systems.
They need education, healthy habits and an appropriate metabolic foundation for development.
The goal is not to turn a young athlete into a professional athlete.
The goal is to help them become a healthier, stronger and more capable athlete as they grow.
For young athletes, recovery becomes even more important when practices, games, school and travel are all competing for the same limited time resources.
OFM emphasizes performance and recovery by focusing on metabolic and cellular health, with the goal of reducing the damage associated with burning too much sugar (glucose) during prolonged strenuous activity which allows for less recovery time and more adaptation.
- Train.
- Recover.
- Adapt.
- Come back stronger.
That’s the cycle.
VESPA® For Team Performance
- Build metabolic capacity.
- Develop metabolic flexibility.
- Support athletic performance.
- Protect the foundation of long-term health.
That’s the difference between simply fueling an athlete and developing the athlete’s metabolic engine.
- VESPA CV-25 — The original ready-to-use formulation containing 100 mg of wasp extract peptide. Just shake and consume a full pouch 30 minutes prior to physical activity. Natural ingredients. Low sugar/low calorie. No stimulants.
- VESPA Ultra Concentrate (UC) — Highly concentrated (175 mg of Wasp Extract Peptide) and requiring dilution, VESPA UC is designed for maximum portability and duration when logistics warrant.
- VESPA Junior (JR) — VESPA JR combines 8 grams of carbohydrate from Orange Juice & Honey with 70 mg of wasp extract peptide for a quick acting performance boosting formula perfect for youth team sports and other high level activities. like Crossfit & Hyrox.
OFM® For Developing Athletes
OFM — Optimized Fat Metabolism — is a comprehensive approach designed to build metabolic capacity and flexibility rather than forcing every athlete into a one-size-fits-all diet containing “Too Much Sugar”.
OFM specifically states that its approach is individualized around the athlete’s unique situation rather than being a rigid program.
That matters for team environments.
Because no two athletes are exactly alike.
Different:
- Ages
- Sports
- Positions
- Training loads
- Competition schedules
- Development stages
- Recovery needs
- Dietary preferences
- Metabolic needs
- OFM Program — Metabolically focused: Reset / Adapt / Integrate
- OFM Coaching & Consulting — Accelerate & Leverage your journey with our 1:1 or Group Coaching Programs or work with an Affiliate Coach (in development)
- AuVentures Wellness Platform — In development
Fair questions, straight answers.
I need carbs to hit my metrics. How will I be able to do that?
You can use VESPA in conjunction with carbohydrates, you’ll just need less.
Whether you adopt the OFM program or not, OFM does not remove carbohydrates from the diet, high level workouts and competition but uses them “strategically” for performance and adaptation. You will use less and get more by using VESPA and OFM strategies.
What about glycogen replenishment?
When you are metabolically fit your body naturally replenishes its glycogen stores*. Athletes who metabolize fat the way Nature intended have a much deeper well of energy to draw from. This includes the ability to generate substantial glucose and ketones from liver fat to meet metabolic needs.
What about sports requiring burst of energy?
Fat metabolism is not limited to beta oxidation. Unbeknownst to most people your liver can liberate fat for fuel while, at the same time, produce volumes of glucose and ketones from liver fat to meet the metabolic demand of high level physical or mental activity.
VESPA supports these pathways making you “Blood Sugar Stable” to maintain focus, coordination and retention of fine motor skills.
Do I have to go low-carb to use this?
Absolutely not! . . . VESPA works as a stand alone product to increase fat metabolism.
By incorporating VESPA into your fueling you won’t need nearly as many external calories thus feel and perform better using less!
How fast will I notice something?
“What you will notice is what you don’t notice” . . . gone are the rollercoaster rides of energy spikes and crashes, the mental fog and the GI discomfort from trying to consume calories during physical activity. You will feel naturally strong, sharp and ‘on your game’ consistently when using VESPA.
But the priceless value of VESPA is the paradigm shift in recovery because what you experience as faster ‘recovery’ is damage prevention at the cellular/mitochondrial level from shifting away from burning sugar. Less damage, more adaptation, that is the real value of VESPA.
Is VESPA a stimulant?
No. VESPA is a natural “Metabolic Catalyst”. It contains zero stimulants and is low in sugar. It is a signaling peptide that tells the body to mobilize and metabolize fat — to tap into your unlimited onboard energy supply so you avoid the crashes caused by a physiological dependence upon a constant supply of external carbohydrates.
Build The Athlete Behind The Athlete.
Higher Health. Peak Performance. Longer Athletic Lives.