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🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Alan Kenny is a performance nutritionist with over 10 years experience supporting teams, athletes and executives to optimize their health.
Holding a degree in Exercise Science and a Masters in Sports Nutrition, Alan has also lectured at University level in Ireland and currently heads a performance lab in an executive medical clinic in Vancouver, Canada. His work here is focused on optimizing health over a person’s lifespan using modern tools such as blood-work analysis, VO2 and DEXA scans.
He also runs his own virtual nutrition consultancy and acts as a nutrition consultant for the University of British Columbia Sports Medicine Clinic, where he sees people to assess their dietary habits and body composition/bone density through DEXA and nutrition consultations.
Alan has also previously worked as Head of Science & Education EMEA at Glanbia Performance Nutrition, the parent company of industry leaders in the Sports Nutrition Supplementation category such as Optimum Nutrition and BSN.
When not working, he can be found playing soccer, doing BJJ or exploring the great outdoors that Vancouver offers with his wife and two young daughters.
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Website: www.alankennynutrition.com
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0:00.0 | Shrud Family this week on Barbell Shrugg, Alan Kenny is coming into the show. |
0:04.0 | We're going to be talking about Dexa scans, body composition, nutrition. |
0:07.0 | What's super cool is we make all of our clients, but I didn't say we make them. |
0:11.0 | All of our clients want to get a decks of skin. It's the most |
0:13.4 | comprehensive way to understand body composition, body fat percentage, muscle mass, bone |
0:17.2 | mental density, any imbalances that you're going to have we need to be able to |
0:20.9 | get into and fix through training visceral fat kind of the organ fat that everybody's really terrified of that you can't really see in the mirror |
0:28.6 | But I have never taken a deep dive into how to analyze those reports, what's important, what's not, and |
0:34.3 | Alan is going to be here today. Walking us through wide decks is so important, |
0:38.1 | what you can gain from them, the information that you need to understand and |
0:42.4 | seeing your report and really why they're so useful and |
0:47.0 | why we make all of our clients get them. |
0:49.0 | Yeah, even though we've never done a super comprehensive deep dive |
0:52.0 | into that specific thing. So so super fired up to have him here as well as like every week you can head over to |
0:59.1 | Rapid Health Report.com that's where Dan Garner and Dr. Ann Galvinner doing a free lab lifestyle and performance analysis that everybody inside rapid health optimization will receive. |
1:08.0 | You can access that free report over at rapidhealth report.com friends, let's get into the show. |
1:14.0 | Welcome to Marvaux Shug. |
1:17.0 | I'm in Andrew Warner, Doug Larson, Alan Kenny, today on Bob Rau Stragg |
1:21.0 | room be digging into Dexa scans, which is awesome because we've never actually done a show on Dexa Scans, |
1:25.4 | even though every single one of our clients takes one. |
1:28.6 | And Alan, you were saying pre-show here that you do over a thousand of these a year? |
1:34.0 | What is the background that has led to analyzing a thousand decks of scans a year? |
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