FFF 076: Fighting Fit, Nutrition Strategies For Safely Making Weight In Combat Sports - with Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 15 November 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Saunas, sweat suits and dehydration are just some of the things we think of when we imagine boxers making weight for a fight. Fighters have a legacy of adopting some extreme methods to shed weight before stepping into the ring. However, thanks to evidence-based practitioners like Danny, old-school methods are being phased out with newer, safer, more effective ways of making weight.

In this episode, Danny Lennon – an Irish performance nutritionist who specialises in nutrition for combat sports – comes on the show. We’ll cover some of the common mistakes made by fighters when they’re cutting for a fight, the distinctive phases of a successful cut and how modern approaches are challenging some of the traditional methods for making weight.

Danny shares some of the supplements he often recommends for his clients, effective pre and post-training nutrition strategies and we’ll examine areas for future research in the field

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0:00.0	Are you tired of falling off the proverbial fitness bandwagon?
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0:19.1	We'll show you how the smallest change can give you
0:21.5	the largest impact. Now join your healthy living host, Scott Baptee, for the Food for Fitness
0:27.4	podcast. You're listening to episode 76 of the Food for Fitness podcast, brought to you by
0:39.7	foodfor fitness.co.uk. I'm your host, Scott Bapdi, and this week we're chatting all about
0:45.2	nutrition in combat sports. Now, sweatsuits, saunas and dehydration are just some of the things you might
0:50.9	imagine when you think about a boxer making weight for a fight. And yes, it's true that there are some old school methods, extreme methods used to shed weight in the sport.
1:00.0	But thanks to evidence-based practitioners like my guest, Danny Lennon,
1:04.0	some of these old-school methods are being phased out with newer, safer and more effective ways of making weight.
1:10.0	So Danny works primarily with clients who are fighters,
1:13.6	so mixed martial arts, boxing, jiu-jitsu and so on.
1:17.6	So he'll be talking all about the nutrition tactics he uses to help them make weight.
1:22.6	So we'll be looking at the distinctive phases of a cut,
1:25.6	some of the methods that he uses in the last week
1:27.8	to drop that last bit of weight. We'll look at some of the common mistakes fighters make,
1:32.2	why there's still a fear of carbohydrate. We'll examine a little bit more about the old-school
1:36.8	methods of cutting weight and if they are actually effective. We'll look at how you can actually
1:41.7	make weight safely. We'll examine some of the supplements that Danny uses with his fighters and we'll also chat about future areas of research. So if Danny had a huge pot of money, what would he like to see done? That would benefit the sport and us who work in performance and nutrition. So it's a really interesting episode if you're into nutrition and training and if you do any kind of competitive fighting sport, then this is a must listen for you.
2:06.8	Right, let's get into episode 76 of the Food for Fitness podcast with Danny Lennon.
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