SNR #185: Trent Stellingwerff, PhD - Nutrition Strategies for Endurance Sports

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 27 June 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Trent is an applied sport physiologist with a specialization in the area of performance nutrition. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Human Nutrition and Exercise Physiology at Cornell University and he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Guelph in Exercise and Skeletal Muscle Physiology.

In his current role he focuses on providing his physiology and nutrition expertise to Canada’s national rowing, track and field and triathlon teams, as well as leading Canadian Sport Institute’s Innovation and Research division. Trent previously worked as the senior leading scientist in Performance Nutrition for Power Bar at the Nestle Research Center in Lausanne, Switzerland. An experienced researcher, Trent has more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific publications and is currently on the editorial board for the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance and International Journal of Sports Nutrition & Exercise Metabolism. He has co-authored six book chapters focusing on the role that nutrition can play in supporting elite athlete performance, including a chapter on ’Nutrition for the Endurance Athlete’, for the newest version of the 2013 IOC Sports Nutrition Encyclopaedia. His expertise is paired with his ability to deliver complex scientific concepts in an informative and applicable way. He co-supervises a number of master and PhD student collaborative research projects at UBC, UVIC and Guelph.

Trent has attended many World Championships and Olympic Games as part of Team Canada’s Integrated Support Team and consults several Olympic athletes from around the world, including his wife Hilary, who competed for Canada in the 1500m at the 2012 Games.

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0:00.0	If you were to ask me as a physiologist, what is the number one adaptation that you hope to get out of endurance training?
0:15.0	I'm going to say mitochondrial biogenesis. How can we figure out ways to drive more mitochondria into your muscles?
0:22.6	Now, a major misconception with that and what people will automatically jump to is that
0:27.6	I'm looking to increase fat oxidation.
0:30.6	No, I'm not.
0:32.6	I'm looking to increase the ability of broken down glycogen to pyruvate to be oxidized aerobically in
0:40.9	mitochondria through pyruvate dehydrogenase. The increase in fact oxidation is secondary. Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio.
1:07.0	As always, I am your host, Danny Lennon, and this is episode 185 of the podcast. And today,
1:15.6	I'm delighted to be able to talk to Dr. Trent Stalingworth on a topic that really hasn't been
1:21.7	touched on in all that great detail on the show before, at least on not on many occasions.
1:28.1	And we're going to be talking about nutritional strategies for endurance sport.
1:32.2	And particularly we're going to spend a bit of time looking at some of the areas in which
1:36.9	Trent's expertise has shone through both from not only what he does in academia, but also
1:42.0	with the Olympic level athletes that he works with.
1:45.1	So talking about topics such as carbohydrate periodization, using low glycogen availability,
1:51.3	training, fueling race day events versus, say, the general training workload, etc., etc.
1:58.7	So plenty to get into.
2:03.2	And as I'm sure you'll see, Trent is an absolute master when it comes to this stuff. And not only has he the expertise in the academic side
2:08.9	where he's a sports physiologist with probably close to 50 peer-reviewed publications at this point,
2:14.5	but also works in the trenches with athletes and an elite level
2:18.9	all the time as part of the Canadian Sport Institute, where like I say, he's worked with
2:24.2	athletes that have competed in numerous elite level events, all sorts of Olympians from Canada
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