SNR #121: Graeme Close, PhD - Nutritional Strategies for Jockeys to Make Weight, Perform Better & Improve Health

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🗓️ 17 May 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Episode 121: Graeme Close PhD discusses nutrition strategies that he has researched and employed with professional jockeys in order to allow them to make weight more safely, perform better and improve their overall health.

Originally a Professional rugby league player, Graeme is now a Reader in Applied Physiology & Sport Nutrition at Liverpool John Moores University where he combines his academic research with nutrition and physiology consultancy to some of the worlds leading sporting organisations.

Graeme is currently the head performance nutritionist to England Rugby. He is the lead nutritionist to Team GB Ski and Snowboard and works with some of the worlds leading golfers and Rugby League players.

On top of this, and despite spending most of his professional career helping big people get bigger, he currently receives funding from Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (the owner of Manchester City FC) to help professional jockeys make-weight safely.

It is this combination of academic theory (over 75 research publications) and applied practice that has enabled Graeme to establish himself as a world-leading nutrition consultant and public speaker.

Graeme is the only person in the UK who is an accredited sports nutritionist (rSEN), sports scientist (BASES) and strength and conditioning coach (UKSCA). He is the deputy chair of the Sport and Exercise Nutrition Register and has recently received a prestigious fellowship from the British Association of Sport & Exercise Sciences (BASES)

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0:00.0	But the main approach is to starve yourself during my day and then binge at night and then repeat process for day after.
0:14.0	I hear this term metabolic damage, metabolic crisis, but even these guys who are sporadic
0:23.3	eating and terrible, the rest in metabolic rate isn't anywhere near as low as what you'd
0:28.5	maybe expected to be someone starving themselves.
0:35.0	When I give these talks now and maybe people who understand that I work in rugby a lot,
0:39.3	might find it surprising by say this.
0:41.3	But I actually think jockeys have it the toughest of any athlete.
0:44.3	And I actually think they are probably the toughest of any athletes as well. Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio, the podcast that brings you evidence-based discussions with the world's leading researchers
1:11.8	in fields related to nutrition and health. I am your host, Danny Lennon, and you are listening
1:18.5	to episode 121. And today, Dr. Graham Close of Liverpool John Moore's University is on the show
1:26.6	to talk about some really, really
1:28.6	fascinating work that he has done with professional jockeys in particular. And what I love
1:34.5	about Graham is that not only is he involved in the frontline academic research in his
1:40.0	sports science lab, but he works directly in elite sport, applying all this stuff with world-class
1:45.6	athletes. So Graham is currently the head performance nutritionist and consultant to England
1:51.0	rugby. He's the lead nutritionist to Team G.B. Ski and snowboard, and he works with some of the
1:57.0	world's leading golfers, rugby lead players, and a whole host of others. And on top of
2:02.5	this, in line today's topic, he currently is involved in researching and consulting with the top
2:09.6	professional jockeys in the world to help them make weight safely and really, in a broader
2:15.6	sense to improve their day-to-day lives, as I'm sure you'll see soon.
2:20.6	The show notes to this episodes will be at sigmautrition.com slash episode one-two-one.
2:27.1	And if you go there, you'll get a link to all the stuff we mentioned today, any research papers,
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