An Apple a Day?
“Your body is everything. In college, it’s different. You eat what you want. No one listens to a nutritionist, but now you have to. My mom won’t believe it, but I’m eating vegetables now."
I can't believe that with all the money UW spends on its athletes and their training that they do not have even basic nutritional education and guidance. Eating an optimized diet could have as much an impact on player growth and development over a four year period as ANY type of training they currently receive.Where is the disconnect? Why is Shaq just now learning the fundamentals of nutrition?
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He spent 2 years learning the nutrition of Joey's.CMBTvet05 said:I read an article in the Sacramento Bee about Shaq Thompson and his training for the combine... with regards to what he has learned these past 6 weeks he was quoted as saying:
“Your body is everything. In college, it’s different. You eat what you want. No one listens to a nutritionist, but now you have to. My mom won’t believe it, but I’m eating vegetables now."
I can't believe that with all the money UW spends on its athletes and their training that they do not have even basic nutritional education and guidance. Eating an optimized diet could have as much an impact on player growth and development over a four year period as ANY type of training they currently receive.Where is the disconnect? Why is Shaq just now learning the fundamentals of nutrition?
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In your post, you quote Shaq, "no one listens to a nutritionist." Perhaps that should be your first clue. And based on the body types of last year's OL, I'm pretty sure they ignored the nutritionist as well.
Get the right type of player, they will heed the advice of the nutritionist and reap the benefits. But at the end of the day, they are 18-23 year olds. At that age, I'd have told a nutritionist to pound sand as well. -
UW hired a full-time nutritionist when Petersen was hired. One of his first hires after Socha, it's a big deal to the staff and with recent rules passed they can feed all the football players all the time basically.
Maybe Shaq didn't listen to the nutritionist but it is a big deal at UW now. Glad to see he finally got the message. -
The players aren't under supervision 24/7. And they are poor. Fast food and pizza are a staple of most 18-23 year old's diets.
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RoadDawg55 said:
The players aren't under supervision 24/7. And they are poor. Fast food and pizza are a staple of most 58 year old's diets.
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Falls on the coach.
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Except as an athlete your aren't "most 18-23 year olds".RoadDawg55 said:The players aren't under supervision 24/7. And they are poor. Fast food and pizza are a staple of most 18-23 year old's diets.
There really is no excuse other than Sark giving impressionable high schoolers poor eating habits.
The training table at the boathouse was great, get pretty good free food, have some fucktarded history major do your pointless classes homework on the franko-Prussian war, bang a cheerleader or volleyball player in the lockerroom downstairs.
No reason to not eat at the training table, that being said, it always seemed like the football players largely avoided it even before Sark was the coach. No idea why. Weird culture thing? -
Willingham had a nutrition program as well. http://m.espn.go.com/ncf/story?storyId=2969182&src=desktop
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I remember reading articles during the last offseason that Jaydon Mickens was bummed he couldn't get french fries at lunch anymore and had to each veggies.
Also, now that all the food that is provided by UW to athletes is free now, there should be more kids sticking to the meal-plan provided by Socha and the nutritionist.
