FFF 023: Eating Like An Elite Athlete, Refeeds, Supplements & Fitness Trends - with Joe Agu
The Food For Fitness Podcast | Nutrition | Training | Lifestyle | Healthy Living
Scott Baptie
4.8 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2015
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Joseph Agu is a performance nutritionist who has been working at the English Institute of Sport with British Athletics, providing nutrition guidance to Olympic level athletes.
He has a BSc. in Sport and Exercise Science, an MSc. in Sports Nutrition and he is currently undertaking a PhD looking at nutritional interventions for strength and power athletes.
In this episode of the Food For Fitness podcast, Joe explains how he helped elite athletes achieve peak performance through improving their dietary practices. You’ll find out how he fixes broken diets, his approach to supplementation, the recovery strategies of an top sprinter, the importance of protein and how the diet of an elite athlete may be very different from what you expect.
In the second half of the episode Joe changes his focus and shares his best advice for the average gym-goer who wants to improve their body composition. He explains why sustainability is key and the values of evidence-based practice and he discusses how someone could best implement refeeds and diet breaks. Joe also reflects on his journey in the fitness industry and how his approach has changed over the last few years and he shares several lessons he’s learned along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you tired of falling off the proverbial fitness bandwagon? |
| 0:04.1 | Join us as we share simple, realistic, and above all, achievable weight loss advice |
| 0:09.5 | based on evidence gathered from helping hundreds of people look, feel, move, and perform better. |
| 0:15.5 | You don't need to starve yourself or hop on the latest fitness craze. |
| 0:19.1 | We'll show you how the smallest change can give you the largest impact. |
| 0:23.1 | Now join your healthy living host, Scott Baptee, for the Food for Fitness podcast. |
| 0:32.7 | Welcome to episode 23 of the Food for Fitness podcast, brought to you by foodfor |
| 0:40.1 | fitness.co.uk. I'm your host, Scott Bapte, and this week my guest is Joe Gou. Now, Joe is a |
| 0:47.4 | nutrition consultant who has an extensive background in nutrition science. He's just |
| 0:51.9 | finishing his PhD in the subject. And he's just |
| 0:55.2 | finished working for the English Institute of Sport as a performance nutritionist. So Joe's been |
| 1:00.7 | working with the nation's best athletes, the absolute top performers, and he's been giving them |
| 1:06.2 | nutrition advice to make sure they get the most from their training and from their racing. |
| 1:10.7 | So we're going to be |
| 1:11.7 | looking at, well, what is nutrition at the elite level? What kind of things does you have them doing? |
| 1:16.6 | How do they feel? How do they recover? And we're also going to be looking at how does that translate to |
| 1:22.2 | what can you and I do in the gym? So people who are exercising recreationally, what can we do that's going to make an |
| 1:29.2 | improvement? So Joe's going to be looking at supplementation. He's going to be looking at popular |
| 1:33.9 | trends in the fitness industry. He's going to be covering the basics and some more advanced |
| 1:38.6 | things for more experienced trainers too. So here we go. Episode number 23 of the Food for Fitness podcast with Joe Agu. |
| 1:46.0 | Hey Joe, welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:48.0 | Hi Scott, thanks for having me on mate. I appreciate it. |
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