SNR #194: Daniel Davey - Applied Performance Nutrition for Team Field Sports

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🗓️ 29 August 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Leinster Rugby performance nutritionist Daniel Davey discusses how to apply evidence-based nutrition practices with team sport athletes in elite-level sport.
Daniel received his BSc in Science from University College Dublin and holds an MSc in Nutrition, Physical Activity & Public Health from the University of Bristol. Daniel is also a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (C.S.C.S) with the NSCA, and has completed the national qualification in Exercise and Health Studies.

Daniel has worked as a performance nutritionist with a host of elite athletes in a range of sports such as golf, athletics, rugby and GAA. In conjunction with his role with Leinster Rugby, Daniel also works as a performance nutritionist with the Dublin senior footballers.

His primary focus is developing individualised nutrition strategies for achieving specific performance related goals. He also believes that enhancing athletes’ understanding of appropriate nutrition practices is vitally important for long-term optimum health outside of sport. In order to achieve this, he believes in providing this information in an understandable, practical and enjoyable manner.

Daniel is a committed athlete himself and has played Gaelic football at intercounty level for Sligo and won an All-Ireland club football medal in 2016 with Ballyboden St’ Enda’s in Dublin. His own playing and training experience allows him to understand the practical implications of applying the science of sports nutrition to achieve peak physical condition and performance in sport.

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0:00.0	Realizing that handing over resources to athletes that I understand that make perfect scientific sense,
0:15.0	very often don't make sense to athletes.
0:20.0	And if an athlete comes in to me
0:22.6	and they have very, very basic understanding of nutrition
0:26.6	or a very basic skill level,
0:28.6	then you cannot give them unrealistic things to achieve
0:32.6	or meals to cook.
0:34.6	And getting an athlete to actually say to you,
0:38.9	I'm not going to do that is really important.
0:43.0	And not judging them for whatever level that they're at is crucial.
0:47.9	It's crucial. Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. As always, I am your host,
1:07.5	Danny Lennon. And on today's show, we're going to be talking with performance nutritionist
1:12.5	Daniel Davy, who is based here in Ireland and works with two of probably the most successful
1:17.7	teams to be competing in sport over the last number of years here, Linsder Rugby and the
1:24.4	Dublin senior footballers, and has been doing some tremendous work behind the
1:28.8	scenes that has played a huge role in that success that both of those teams have enjoyed
1:33.7	and has really done something that I'm particularly fascinated by of taking concepts from
1:40.8	the science within sports nutrition and turning that into actionable and understandable
1:47.2	pieces of information that athletes can actually use and implement and really get a better
1:52.3	understanding of nutrition and actually how to make that part of their lifestyle that improves
1:57.7	their performance over time as opposed to merely prescribing people things. And he's just
2:02.7	been a complete genius in this area. And I think you'll see that bear through in a lot of today's
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