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Para athletes, or athletes with a disability, require sports nutrition recommendations to be adapted to their specific sport, impairment, practical and/or medical needs. Liz Broad, Sports Dietitian, helps answer athletes and sports nutritionists questions and find ways to optimise your sporting performance through interviews with researchers, sports nutrition practitioners, coaches, athletes and other sports performance personnel.
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Oct 7, 2021
Oct 7, 2021
28 min
Susannah Scaroni is a 3 time Paralympic wheelchair racer who recently won the Gold medal in the T54 5000m, bronze in the T54 800m and 6th in the wheelchair marathon at the Tokyo Paralympic Games. Susannah is currently completing her dietetic internship program after completing her masters degree with Nick Burd (E1). Susannah shares with us her nutrition journey and specifically how she's changed her focus on protein intake for training.
Oct 6, 2021
Oct 6, 2021
28 min
For the more technically minded or interested in how protein research is undertaken, this bonus episode provides the rest of the interview with A/Prof Nick Burd. Nick outlines his journey through researching protein needs in athletes and describes how the research is undertaken in the laboratory.