Trail Nutrition 101 | Shannon O'Grady, PhD
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
5 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Shannon O'Grady is the Chief Product Officer and the Chief Operating Officer for Gnarly Nutrition -- one of the longtime sponsors of the Freetrail podcast. In this episode, we go deep on some of the most interesting topics in nutrition for trail and ultra marathon performance. Topics include: electrolytes, amino acids, collagen, creatine, intermittent fasting, the microbiome and a lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, fam, welcome to the free trail podcast. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Of course, I am your loving host, Dylan Bowman. |
| 0:21.4 | Back today with one of the most information, dense, and interesting episodes I have ever recorded. |
| 0:27.0 | This is one of those shows that you're going to want to bookmark and reference on a regular basis in the months and years ahead. |
| 0:33.9 | Our guest today is Shannon O'Grady, the chief product officer and the chief operating officer for gnarly nutrition, the longtime sponsor of all things free trail. |
| 0:44.6 | Shannon has a PhD. |
| 0:46.4 | She is a wealth of knowledge and she's also a great athlete, a runner, a climber, a jiu-jitsu practitioner who uses and tests all the products that she |
| 0:56.8 | creates on herself in various sporting applications. We cover so much in this episode, but there |
| 1:02.4 | was also a lot more that I wanted to get to. So maybe Shannon will become a regular guest, |
| 1:07.1 | or the nutrition conversation will become a running series that we occasionally revisit |
| 1:13.3 | from time to time. Some things that we cover in today's episode. Electrolites, caffeine, amino |
| 1:20.1 | acids, creatine, the various types of sugars in sports nutrition products and what to consider. |
| 1:29.2 | The refueling window after training and how to take advantage of it we talk about way versus plant based protein we talk |
| 1:34.3 | about collagen intermittent fasting the microbiome when to use supplements NSF certification |
| 1:41.7 | and a whole lot more again this is an information dense episode. Consider |
| 1:47.4 | taking notes or revisiting it as needed in the future. As always, the free trail podcast is |
| 1:53.8 | presented by Speedland. Go pick up the third footwear commission from this incredible upstart |
| 1:58.8 | trail equipment brand from Portland, Oregon. The third commission is called the GS-TAM. |
| 2:02.6 | It's our first foray into the more maximal cushion trail category. |
| 2:07.6 | This shoe is built to go the distance with all the protection you'd need for a 100-mile race, |
| 2:12.6 | but with all the responsiveness that you need for shorter high-intensity training sessions and workouts, |
| 2:19.9 | the shoe is my favorite shoe ever made. |
| 2:22.9 | I was also highly involved in the design and development process, so I might be a little bit biased, |
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