SNR #162: Andrew Chappell, PhD - Examining Contest Prep Strategies Followed by Natural Bodybuilders

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 31 January 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Episode 162: Andrew Chappell, PhD of Sheffield Hallam University is on the show to discuss preliminary data looking into different nutritional strategies followed by natural bodybuilders.

Dietary Strategies Of Elite Natural Bodybuilders - Chappell AJ & Simper T.,

The popularity of natural bodybuilding is increasing rapidly. Within the United Kingdom (UK) the British Natural Bodybuilding Federation (BNBF) runs seven regional qualifiers culminating in a UK finals. This cohort provides an excellent opportunity to study the dietary and training practices of an elite group of natural bodybuilders. In order to achieve the optimal physique for competition the athlete typically undertakes in a fat loss regime whilst attempting to maintain muscle mass normally accrued prior to the weight loss period. A combination of resistance training, cardiovascular exercise, calorie reduction, supplement regimes and peaking strategies are employed in order to obtain this physique. Although recommendations exist, these recommendations are not always based on bodybuilding populations and there is a paucity of applied research in this area. Here we report the results of a recent cross-sectional study investigating the preparation techniques of natural bodybuilding participant's competing at the BNBF finals. There was a tendency for successful bodybuilders to have a different macronutrient composition than unsuccessful bodybuilders. Specifically carbohydrate intake was higher over the duration of a pre-contest diet in successful bodybuilders. Implications for this will be discussed.

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0:00.0	A lot of people actually describe themselves as a high carb or high carb and high protein diet are much more so than I suspect it. And that's quite nice because it means that we're perhaps maybe moving away from this idea
0:24.6	that protein is the sort of the king of nutrients.
0:32.6	When I look at my sort of data set, I see that nearly everyone that takes part of this competition
0:38.3	had some sort of peaking sort of strategy.
0:41.3	So we could perhaps maybe potentially tease apart what it is people are actually potentially doing. Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio.
1:01.8	As always, I am your host, Danny Lennon, and today you're listening to episode 162 of the podcast.
1:09.4	Thank you so much for tuning in today. And today's episode is going to be with
1:14.7	Dr. Andrew Chappelle of Sheffield Hallam University. And some of you regular listeners may have
1:20.8	remembered Dr. Chappelle being on the show way, way back when he was doing research up in Aberdeen
1:26.9	and came on to talk about some of his research
1:29.0	looking at the gut microbiome and how that affects potentially health and dietary choices.
1:34.7	So I think that was back in like episode 97 or 98, something like that.
1:39.4	Since then, Dr. Chappelle, who you may remember has competed as a natural bodybuilder at a very high level
1:45.6	himself, has since moved to Sheffield Hallam University, where he's been looking at some research
1:51.5	and doing some preliminary data at examining really the different nutritional strategies and training
1:57.3	modalities used by elite level natural bodybuilders in the UK.
2:01.6	So he's looked at some of the best guys that are competing and winning,
2:05.6	and are there any differences between them and other people that are placing lower,
2:10.6	and what are the people who are getting into the best shape actually doing?
2:13.6	Are there nutritional strategies actually following certain evidence-based recommendations?
2:18.5	So in recent times, we've obviously had the papers from Eric Helms and others that are looking at
2:24.9	nutritional strategies from an evidence-based point of view for physique and bodybuilding competitors.
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