Fueling Footballers: What Premier League players eat

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while i've done bits on nutrition in my

past

there's never been such an emphasis as

that is on here i had a very early

meeting with myself cairo who is my head

chef over trainground and patrick at the

start of the season and he was

talking to us about the nutrition and he

was saying if i can get literally an

extra two percent

out of the players because of nutrition

i'll take that there's a nutritionist

for both the

training ground and the academy to have

a separate nutritionist cairo who's my

head chef at the training ground he

actually will have meetings

regularly with with the nutritionist for

the training ground and they will put

things into place

so based on our weekly schedule they are

faster the game so players will be

encouraged to take nutritional

supplements away with them things such

as protein shakes collagen cherry

actives in monday be quite a light day i

will screen them when we screen them we

sort of have a menu supplements so

things such as omega-3s which can reduce

inflammation collagen shots obviously

which will help with tendon health

and protein shakes if they want a

pruning shake in the morning alongside

their breakfast that's optional

basically the menu what they'll have

next will have information around the

supplements so not just taking on random

things that'll describe what the

supplements do so they're not just

picking up things not knowing what

balance is a bit of an educational thing

behind it as well tuesday's a bit of a

smaller spaces session so it's a bit

harder so we encourage them to have more

carbohydrates obviously to pack those

energy stores before they go into that

session post sessions similar themes are

they taking on the correct things and

doing the correct things to implement a

good recovery strategy so when they come

back in for the next day which is a

larger spaces day it's a bit longer time

on feet that they're ready to go for

that session so that session will

encourage them if they can let's have a

few more carbohydrates before that

because it's going to be a little bit

longer they're going to be out there the

space is going to be bigger it's going

to be a little bit more taxing thursday

again a recovery day similar strategy to

what we'd go with post game so 48 hours

to 24 hours before the game we encourage

them to get a lot of carbohydrates on

board they're starting to build the

loading before the game and obviously on

the match day three hours before kickoff

they'll have a very rich carbohydrate

meal you have to be really hot on what

you're doing

with the food and when you're delivering

that food

the times what they have it is important

that's obviously all set out by the the

team themselves ahead ahead of time

so you don't have red meat on a day of a

game generally the protein they have

will be chicken and salmon on a game day

lots of carbs so there's always pasta

the food changes as the week goes on

post match for instance they will

actually have

i'd say it's a treat meal as opposed to

a cheat meal it's definitely not too bad

it's not like the chicken wings and

burgers and and pizzas and things like

that but they will have a burger and

chips or they'll have a wrap or a steak

sandwich they will have something a

little bit different there's a bit more

of a reward after a game we don't have a

fire on each player but we know what

players obviously have allergies and

stuff like that

we've got

no vegetarians in the squad but we have

got quite a few pescetarians so we need

to make sure that obviously they're

getting a high level of protein from

fish but some of them try and shy away

from that sometimes so it's how we can

get around that with getting other

things into them so whether that's like

a vegan protein shake or something like

that or a collagen shot can we get the

supplements that we need into those

players who are just on a fish-based

diet there are players this year because

they've been a change squad demographic

and the players have been a lot younger

it's been nice because they've wanted to

know the reasoning behind

why they're taking what they're taking

the players last season already sort of

knew that it's been sort of an

educational process for us this year in

terms of actually talking to those

players sitting down with them and

telling them about the benefits of what

they're taking klein is very interested

in it so

he sort of when we get a new product in

he's one of the first that will go into

the fridge and sort of pick it up and

say oh house is going to help me what

does this do i think he's got experience

using that in the past from speaking to

him he's used quite a lot of it in some

rehab situations so he's quite

consistent with that it's one of the

first look upstairs in the morning

knocking on our office door trying to

get some collagen out of the cupboard

so on a match day certain players will

have certain things religiously so some

players might have an electrolyte drink

religiously some players might have a

caffeine shot religiously these things

are only going to enhance the

performance during the game they're

going to stop them getting dehydrated

caffeine is going to make them more

alert situations in the game

but each play i would say is individual

which will also relate to their diet and

stuff like that but each player has

their own sort of routine on a

day-to-day basis

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