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About
Meet Luke Rodriguez, the dietitian and coach behind Aspire.
Aspire's coaching framework reflects Luke Rodriguez's work as a registered dietitian with a master's in sports nutrition and as the head coach of a Colorado high school cross country and distance program.
When you ask a question, he is who reads it.
The record
Two jobs, both real.
Most sports nutrition for high schoolers is written by someone who has never run a Tuesday practice, or by a coach who is guessing about food. Aspire is led by someone doing both, this season. The practical standard comes from the school day, the practice field, and the questions families actually ask—not a generic athlete persona.
MS Sports Nutrition, RDN
Registered Dietitian
Head XC & Distance Coach
Palmer Ridge High School
3x D2 XC National Team
UCCS, 14:47 5K
Former kitchen staff
School cafeteria experience
Colorado Springs
Coaching and racing at altitude
Registered dietitian is a credentialed, regulated title. You can verify it. That matters more here than any claim we could write about ourselves.
Why it lands
It is written from the week you are actually in.
School starts at seven. Practice ends at six. The bus to the meet leaves at six in the morning and the only food is what someone remembered to pack. Dinner competes with homework.
That is the week Aspire is written for. Not an ideal training block, and not a college athlete with a dining hall.
Stress fractures in young distance runners are usually not only a training problem. Under-fueling is often part of it. Catching that early mostly comes down to somebody noticing and asking the right question in week three instead of week twelve.
Written by a sports dietitian (MS, RDN) who head-coaches high school cross country. Aspire publishes a deliberately small launch library. The live parent under-fueling guide states its limits and cites the research it uses; the operational guides do not claim clinical proof.
Where the line is
What he will not do.
The audience here includes minors, so the limits are written down rather than assumed.
He does not diagnose. That is a physician’s job and he will say so.
He does not give supplement amounts or lab targets. Your doctor decides testing and dosing.
He does not put a high schooler on a diet, a scale, or a body-fat measurement.
When something looks like RED-S or disordered eating, you get told plainly and pointed toward care.
Food first, and the clinician decides the clinical part. That is the whole rule.
Where to go next
Bring him to your program for the year.
$250 covers one school for a year. Cross country and track, every coach, and every family on the roster. A single guest talk is over in an hour — ours costs $200 added on top of the year, which is most of what the whole year costs.