340. How To Fuel For Improved Performance: Chef Dan Churchill Talks Protein Needs, Perks Of A Plant-Forward Diet & Smoothie Hacks

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🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Replay! Bringing back this popular episode to the top of the feed today, welcoming my friend Dan Churchill back on the podcast. We first aired this in early 2024 to coincide with the exciting launch of his book Eat Like a Legend: Delicious, Super Easy Recipes to Perform at Your Peak. He’s giving us all the inside knowledge and know-how on how to fuel your body for optimal performance, whatever that may look like for you. We dive into hydration, micro and macronutrients, the importance of plant diversity in your diet, as well as protein sources and smoothie hacks. Dan hits home on the importance of taking care of and fueling yourself first and why it’s worth putting in the work for longevity of your life.

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IN THIS EPISODE

Dan’s journey to food and performance nutrition education (3:42)

How ‘Eat Like a Legend’ came to be (8:50)

Performing at your peak according to Dan (14:00)

Top 3 things things to focus on when looking to optimize performance (17:01)

Tactical steps toward cutting out refined sugars (22:50)

Dan’s ideal smoothie ingredients and hack for smoothie prep that will last you all week (31:15)

What it means to have a diversity of plants in your diet (36:58)

The importance of hydration and electrolytes when looking to perform at our peak (40:22)

The biggest challenge of cooking at home at why practice is key (47:30)

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0:00.0	Look after our performance.
0:02.0	You have to look after your second brain, which is the gut, connected to your first brain, the brain.
0:07.2	And a lot of that is to do by eating enough plants and a variety of that. Hey, hey, Emily Abadi here.
0:27.1	You're listening to episode 340 of hurdle.
0:30.9	A wellness focused podcast where I talk to inspirational people about everything from their highest ties and toughest moments to essential tips on how to live
0:38.7	a healthier, happier, more motivated life. We all go through our fair share of hurdles. My goal through
0:45.6	these discussions is to empower you to better navigate yours and move with intention so that you can
0:50.9	stride towards your own big potential. And of course, have some fun along the way.
0:57.9	Super excited to bring some new life to this special episode I recorded at the top of
1:04.1	24 with my dear friend Dan Churchill.
1:08.3	He's a performance-based chef.
1:09.9	He's also got his master's and exercise science. And I find it
1:13.2	really important at the top of this episode to make sure that I laid down Dan's qualifications. Dan has
1:20.8	been cooking, gosh, for over a decade now. And fun fact, he was one of my first ever guests on Hurtle back in 2018.
1:31.4	Now, the reason that I am giving this episode a replay spot in the feed, something I do quite
1:37.0	rarely, is because so many of you are reaching out, looking for nutrition advice,
1:43.0	looking for insight onto how you can fuel your
1:45.7	body better, and that is exactly what this one covers. We're talking about it all from
1:52.0	Dan's journey to food and performance nutrition education and how his cookbook Eat like a
1:57.0	legend came to be. The top three things to focus on when you're looking to optimize performance,
2:02.3	tactical steps on cutting out refined sugars,
2:05.3	to what it really means to have diversity of plants within your diet.
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