#374: How to Plan a Fighter’s Diet
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2021
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Danny becomes the interviewee, as he is interviewed by sports dietitian and owner of The Fight Dietitian, Jordan Sullivan RD. Jordan oversees the diet of several UFC athletes, including champions Israel Adesanya and Alexander Volkanovski. Danny and Jordan have an in-depth chat about all aspects of nutrition and weight cutting for combat sport athletes, including the concept of the "52 week fight camp" and Danny's five-phase model of combat sport nutrition. This discussion first appeared on the Fight Science Podcast. Thanks to Jordan Sullivan for allowing its reproduction here.
Show notes: sigmanutrition.com/episode374
Weight Cutting System: sigmanutrition.com/weightcut
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. My name is Danny Lennon and you are listening |
| 0:19.8 | to episode 374 of the podcast. Today we're |
| 0:24.5 | going to be talking all about combat sport nutrition and weight cutting. And this episode, |
| 0:30.3 | in fact, is one in which I was the interviewee. And this was a conversation that I originally |
| 0:35.1 | had for the Fight Science podcast hosted by my good friend Jordan Sullivan, who he himself is a renowned sports dietician in Australia. |
| 0:45.4 | He's the owner of the fight dietitian. |
| 0:47.8 | And he oversees the nutrition for several UFC athletes, notably including UFC champions, Israel Idasanya, and Alexander Volkovsky. |
| 0:58.4 | And Jordan's been doing some fantastic work for a long period of time, and I've really enjoyed |
| 1:02.4 | chatting to him on a number of occasions. And as part of a series he did on his own podcast, |
| 1:09.2 | a while back, we had a real long, detailed, deep discussion |
| 1:13.4 | on all aspects of combat sport nutrition and weight cutting. But I really enjoyed this |
| 1:19.3 | particular conversation, not only because we got to go into some detail on it, but obviously |
| 1:24.4 | given Jordan's expertise, both in the field of dietetics and sports |
| 1:30.1 | nutrition, but also as a practitioner working specifically with combat sport athletes, he was very |
| 1:36.0 | aware of the issues that sports nutritionists and sports dietitians face in trying to plan for the nutrition and weight cuts for these |
| 1:47.1 | athletes. And so it allowed us to have some really interesting back and forth and some really good |
| 1:52.3 | questions. And so I wanted to share that particular conversation with you guys. And Jordan |
| 1:58.2 | kindly agreed to let me post this conversation so I hope it ends up |
| 2:03.8 | being useful to you if you are a sports nutritionist if you're a sports dietitian |
| 2:07.7 | especially if you work with people in the area of combat sports but even if you don't I |
| 2:12.2 | think there's a lot you can think of from a more conceptual level of seeing how we try and think through some of these |
| 2:18.7 | problems. So I hope it's useful. If it is, please let me know. On the show notes page to this |
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