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Nutrition and the UW Football team
NEsnake12
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I had the opportunity to listen to a presentation by the 2 leading dietitians for UW athletics (1 of whom deals entirely with the football team) and learned some interesting info.
Diet Plans:
So every player has their own individualized diet plan designed by the football dietitian that's specific for their goals. The process goes something like this:
1) Coach (I'm assuming usually Socha) meets with the dietitian and says he wants player X to get up (or down) to a certain weight in a given timeframe.
2) Dietitian designs a meal plan, macros, and calorie count that the player needs to hit every day in order.
3) If player can make that happen, awesome. If he's struggling to eat that level of calories, the dietitian/player/coach all meet together and figure out a more realistic plan. 95% of the time, the coach listens to the dietitian and doesn't force the issue.
4) If they player's don't give enough of a shit to follow the plan, that's their problem. The coaches will know if they are lazy about the diet.
More interesting/fun info:
-Daily calorie range is 4000 at the low-end (smaller players maintaining weight) up to 8000 (lineman on the weight gain list).
-A lot of players (especially young ones and ones on the gain list) have to snapchat her every meal so that she knows they're on track and not eating like shit).
-Scariest thing she's had to do was tell Coach Pete "no" in regards to him wanting a certain player to hit a higher weight.
-Getting freshman o-lineman up to playing weight is the hardest challenge.
-Every time UW Football tweets about the team getting snow cones, it's not actually snow cones... they replace the syrup with propel.
-She had to tell Devin Burelson to cut down on his 6 cups of raw spinach a day because he wasn't getting enough calories. Also, his daily breakfast is 4 pieces of french toast, 3 pieces of bacon, 2 separate 4-egg scrambles, a giant bowl of melon, and some veggies.
-They teach cooking classes and give grocery store tours to the players so they can eat better at home too.
-Random: Myles Gaskin has a summer job selling rainier cherries at farmers markets.
Diet Plans:
So every player has their own individualized diet plan designed by the football dietitian that's specific for their goals. The process goes something like this:
1) Coach (I'm assuming usually Socha) meets with the dietitian and says he wants player X to get up (or down) to a certain weight in a given timeframe.
2) Dietitian designs a meal plan, macros, and calorie count that the player needs to hit every day in order.
3) If player can make that happen, awesome. If he's struggling to eat that level of calories, the dietitian/player/coach all meet together and figure out a more realistic plan. 95% of the time, the coach listens to the dietitian and doesn't force the issue.
4) If they player's don't give enough of a shit to follow the plan, that's their problem. The coaches will know if they are lazy about the diet.
More interesting/fun info:
-Daily calorie range is 4000 at the low-end (smaller players maintaining weight) up to 8000 (lineman on the weight gain list).
-A lot of players (especially young ones and ones on the gain list) have to snapchat her every meal so that she knows they're on track and not eating like shit).
-Scariest thing she's had to do was tell Coach Pete "no" in regards to him wanting a certain player to hit a higher weight.
-Getting freshman o-lineman up to playing weight is the hardest challenge.
-Every time UW Football tweets about the team getting snow cones, it's not actually snow cones... they replace the syrup with propel.
-She had to tell Devin Burelson to cut down on his 6 cups of raw spinach a day because he wasn't getting enough calories. Also, his daily breakfast is 4 pieces of french toast, 3 pieces of bacon, 2 separate 4-egg scrambles, a giant bowl of melon, and some veggies.
-They teach cooking classes and give grocery store tours to the players so they can eat better at home too.
-Random: Myles Gaskin has a summer job selling rainier cherries at farmers markets.
Comments
Thanks for sharing, man, awesome stuff!
Just for everything else.
Not that I listen.
Because the iTunes.
That's only 1/4 of Fatters' intake.