SNR #121: Graeme Close, PhD - Nutritional Strategies for Jockeys to Make Weight, Perform Better & Improve Health

Episode 121: Graeme Close PhD discusses nutrition strategies
that he has researched and employed with professional jockeys in
order to allow them to make weight more safely, perform better and
improve their overall health.

Originally a Professional rugby league player, Graeme is now a
Reader in Applied Physiology & Sport Nutrition at Liverpool
John Moores University where he combines his academic research with
nutrition and physiology consultancy to some of the worlds leading
sporting organisations.

Graeme is currently the head performance nutritionist to England
Rugby. He is the lead nutritionist to Team GB Ski and Snowboard and
works with some of the worlds leading golfers and Rugby League
players.

On top of this, and despite spending most of his professional
career helping big people get bigger, he currently receives funding
from Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (the owner of Manchester
City FC) to help professional jockeys make-weight safely.

It is this combination of academic theory (over 75 research
publications) and applied practice that has enabled Graeme to
establish himself as a world-leading nutrition consultant and
public speaker.

Graeme is the only person in the UK who is an accredited sports
nutritionist (rSEN), sports scientist (BASES) and strength and
conditioning coach (UKSCA). He is the deputy chair of the Sport and
Exercise Nutrition Register and has recently received a prestigious
fellowship from the British Association of Sport & Exercise
Sciences (BASES)