Episode 233: Breaking the Injury Cycle (Part 2) - The Role of Nutrition
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In part two of our three-part series on injury prevention and management, Matt Welcomes to the podcast leading performance nutritionist Scott Tindal of FuelIn for a discussion on the role of nutrition in injury prevention, mitigation, and recovery.
Together Matt and Scott frame the topic of injury through the lens of under-fueling or improper fueling and its impact on soft tissue and bone health.
The conversation covers:
- Low Energy Availability (LEA), Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDS), Over Training Syndrome.
- Chronic vs. Acute LEA
(7:06) "What I think tends to happen is athletes see the results of...taking in limited amounts of fuel. They see the body composition improve, they see the weight drop, they see maybe some improvement in these performance parameters, maybe because of reduced weight, and then they get oh, maybe if I lose more, maybe if I go further. Maybe if I drop more fat, maybe if I don't eat as much here, I can continue to improve, and then you start to see those changes, you know. Not just from a physical standpoint, but also a mental standpoint as well. And that's when I think if we're talking about soft tissue injuries and bone injuries, that's when it starts to occur."
- Caloric intake and the balanced consumption of carbs, protein, and fat
- Proper hydration
- Navigating dietary restrictions
(30:24) "I fully respect the decision to go vegan or vegetarian. And I think you just need to be aware of the implications of those diet types, especially when trying to perform high volume, high intensity, you know, lots of load training, I think it just needs to be -- you need to be aware of protein intake, carbohydrate intake, fat intake, and total caloric intake when doing that, along with all the micronutrient potential deficiencies that could exist with a poorly designed the, you know, vegetarian diet."
Matt and Scott also discuss the most common nutritional mistakes athletes make that promote injury and the practices that lead to bone resorption - the shrinkage or loss of bone.
Scott Tindal also explains what it means to “feed the injury” as well as the habits athletes should avoid during injury recovery.
(40:59) "When injury occurs, I think the most common mistake is that athletes will drop caloric intake. So they all say, sh**, I'm getting fat, because I can't move. But if we look at acute muscle damage...induced through exercise, we see an increase in resting metabolic rate. And that will occur for at least up to 72 hours. So if you get an injury, certainly don't restrict caloric intake for at least the first 72 hours. That would be something that we would absolutely stress that actually, if anything, increase your energy intake during those first three days post-injury, to allow the body to recover."
The purpose of this episode is to provide an understanding of the negative physiological challenges that occur due to improper nutrition and how to leverage nutrition in a well-balanced and well-rounded approach to injury prevention, care, and rehabilitation.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:09.4 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:13.3 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life. |
| 0:33.4 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
| 0:41.8 | And today it is part two on our series of injury prevention. Now for today we are welcoming back our very special guest, Scott Tyndall of Fuelin. Scott is our key partner when it comes to |
| 0:48.1 | supporting athletes and executives through great life and sports performance. He is one of the world experts in nutrition and fueling. |
| 0:57.0 | But today, I asked Scott to take a little bit of a detour |
| 1:01.1 | and not just talk about performance enhancement for athletes |
| 1:05.2 | through the vehicle of great fueling, nutrition and hydration, |
| 1:08.8 | but some of the key aspects and strategies to reduce risk |
| 1:13.6 | or navigate through injuries. Now the focus today was mostly around tissue injury and bone |
| 1:20.6 | injury, stress fracture, stress reactions and that component. And it proves that Scott is a world |
| 1:26.6 | of knowledge when it comes to this and so if you |
| 1:29.3 | are someone that is consistently having to navigate little niggles or injuries when you've been |
| 1:35.2 | training for your 5k or 10k or marathon or ironman or half ironman whatever it might be injuries often feel |
| 1:42.6 | like they are a part of life. And they don't have to be |
| 1:46.0 | for an athlete. Now, nutrition is never going to be a cure rule. It's not going to be V-fix. |
| 1:52.6 | But many people fail to understand the role that proper fueling, hydration and nutritional strategies |
| 1:58.9 | can have in both risk reduction as well as accelerating |
| 2:03.6 | the return to the playing field when it comes to navigating injury. And so we have a great |
| 2:09.4 | discussion, Scott and I. We're not going to do any Matt's newsings today. We're not going to do |
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