Podcast excerpt discussing nutrition and training strategies for athletes preparing for the NFL Combine. Focus areas in this chunk: use of essential amino acids (including branched-chain amino acids) as a pre-workout “shooter,” tailored post-workout recovery shakes (glutamine, creatine, protein, carbohydrates) adjusted for body size/lean mass, and hydration monitoring via pre/post session weigh-ins and electrolyte solutions.
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These guys need a lot of calories, so there's a lot coming in from food. So their fueling pans that I put together, they're eating, you know, six to seven times per day. But it's not so much about eating a meal. It's more about fueling the body, hydrating the body, and recovering the body. So they come in, they're going to eat their breakfast, then they're going to head into their first session of the morning. They're going to get a pre workout, what we call a shooter. And that's amino acids. And then from there after that, is.
That like the exos aminos, the essential amino acids or branched chain amino acids?
Yes, they're getting the exos amino acids. So it's essential amino acids. That includes the branched chain amino acids in it.
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And then after, during that training session, again, their focus is on the hydration during that training session. They're very good at weighing in and weighing out before and after each of their training sessions. So they can track their, their sweat losses and making sure that they're rehydrating based on their sweat losses. So they use a combination of water and the exocatalyte electrolyte solution.
Okay, gotcha. So in that shooter, that pre workout shooter, is it just aminos? That's it.
Just the amino. Just the aminos pre workout.
How many amino acids does an athlete get? Does it depend on their size?
We do make adjustments in size for the amino acids. It's a basic two scoops of the exos amino acids pre workout. But I take into consideration size for things that we do with the post workout recovery shake, which includes things like glutamine, creatine, a certain amount of protein and carbohydrate within that shake. And that's based off of body size and lean body mass.
Okay, gotcha. Cool. And in terms of that post workout nutrition, are you looking at whether or not an athlete actually has another workout coming up that day? And the reason I asked that question is I recently had Mark Sisson on a podcast. I don't know if you're familiar with Mark, but he highlighted how he'll often not fuel immediately in that post workout window because of some research that shows enhanced testosterone and growth hormone. If one maintains a little bit of a fasted state post workout.
