SNR #229: Sophie Killer, PhD - Fuelling Olympic Track & Field Athletes

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 8 May 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Dr Sophie Killer is a senior member of the English Institute of Sport Performance Nutrition Team where she’s worked as the Lead Performance Nutritionist for British Athletics, supporting the Olympic and Paralympic Track & Field athletes since 2015. She completed her PhD in Exercise Metabolism & Performance Nutrition at Loughborough University.

Sophie has gained a wealth of experience working as a nutrition consultant across a range of elite athletes from individual cyclists, runners and triathletes through to team sports, including supporting British Basketball during the London 2012 Olympic Games and spending 4 seasons working in the Premier League.

Sophie continues to engage in research through collaborations with Loughborough University, Nottingham Trent University and the University of Surrey. She is a Visiting Fellow in Sports Nutrition at Loughborough University where she is involved in PhD supervision and sessional lecturing. She has 10 publications to date, sits on the Editorial Board of the BioMed Central Nutrition Journal, is a Review Editor for Frontiers in Nutrition and is an invited reviewer for the EJSS, IJSNEM and IJSPP.

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0:00.0	So with meal timings, what we try to do is get athletes to shift as soon as possible.
0:16.0	So we have played around with pre-shifting, so trying to get the athletes to move into,
0:20.0	to slowly move into their new time zone a week before they fly, so trying to get the athletes to move into, to slowly
0:20.9	move into their new time zone a week before they fly.
0:23.9	So that might be going to bed half an hour later a day or maybe 10 minutes later every day
0:27.9	and waking up 10 minutes later to try and start a bit of a shift before they travel.
0:31.7	With regards to food, we always try and get the athletes to eat in line of the time zone
0:35.5	that they're arriving in as opposed to continuing to eat in the times of their living.
0:39.3	Basically, we would try and encourage the athletes to, as soon as they board that flight,
0:44.3	to get onto the new times in terms of staying awake where they should be. Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio.
1:07.7	I am your host, as always, Danny Lennon, and we're at episode 229 of the podcast today. You are
1:16.9	very welcome. Thank you for listening in. Before we get into the real good stuff today, just a
1:23.6	quick mention of a competition for those you listening who may be consider entering, especially
1:30.8	if you're based in the UK or Ireland or at least willing to travel to the UK this June to see
1:36.6	the wonderful James Krieger.
1:38.8	So as I think I've mentioned previously on the podcast, James Krieger is coming to the UK on the second of June.
1:45.6	I believe it'll be his only seminar date in the UK this year.
1:49.4	It's being hosted by my good friend Martin MacDonald of Mac Nutrition.
1:53.7	And so they're putting on a day in Nottingham on the 2nd of June.
1:58.2	And James Krieger is going to be there for the full day,
2:00.2	getting into a host of topics that I think are brand new areas that he's going to cover for his seminars, including hormonal manipulation for fat loss, inflammation, looking at ideas around dairy, fructose, gluten and so on.
2:18.3	A load of different stuff there that you can look into over on the information page for the site.
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