#286: James Morton, PhD - Fuelling Elite Sport: Team Sky, Liverpool FC & Carbohydrate Periodization

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🗓️ 11 June 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Dr. James Morton is a Professor of Exercise Metabolism at Liverpool John Moores University. He has an extensive list of published peer-review research in high impact journals, as well as being deeply involved in the highly-regarded sport science and nutrition programs at LJMU.

James was Head of Nutrition at Team Sky (now Team Ineos) during a period where the team captured 5 Tour de France titles. Previously, Dr. Morton worked as head performance nutritionist at Liverpool Football Club. He also also worked with professional and amateur boxers.

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0:00.0	Everyone then, they took this paper and they thought the practical application of this is to carbohydrate load.
0:20.0	You don't need three days depletion,
0:22.2	just one day of a high feed.
0:24.3	But buried in the discussion of that manuscript is a fantastic piece of writing.
0:30.5	And the paragraph is something along the lines of the practical question may not be how much
0:34.9	can I supercompensate, but how much do I need every day to sustain
0:39.3	the training intensities and durations required? And when you flip it that way, then that's
0:45.3	the practical application. Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio, the podcast that brings you
1:04.2	conversations about nutritional and health science.
1:07.6	We're at episode 286 of the podcast, and as as always I am your host, Danny Lennon.
1:15.0	Before we get into today's episode, just a quick reminder that we are not far away from two
1:20.8	upcoming seminars that I'm going to be hosting in July 2019. So the first of those is titled
1:27.4	Nutrition for Health Enhancement, where we're going to be. So the first of those is titled nutrition for health enhancement,
1:29.2	where we're going to be getting into the science of a number of health-centric topics within
1:34.2	nutritional science and practical application. And then the second seminar is going to be
1:39.7	related to combat sport athlete. So it's making weight and dieting for the combat sport athlete,
1:45.5	where we're going to pretty much get into everything that I can think of
1:50.2	in relation to nutrition and weight-cutting strategies for combat sport athletes of various
1:56.2	different types and with different weighing ranges and so on.
2:00.3	So they're happening in the middle of July.
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