Today I am joined by TFD Senior Performance Dietitian, Jack Doherty, and we are discussing ONE Championship and its unique weigh-in protocol. 

This past weekend there were 9 athletes who missed weight, hydration or both for ONE’s debut show on Amazon Prime. I have spoken about this at length in the past, but Jack actually had one of our TFD athletes who successfully weighed in and passed all protocols and ended up getting a very good win. 

We will discuss our thoughts on the weigh-in protocol, why we don’t particularly like it, why it is potentially dangerous, and give examples of systems that we think work much better. 

Today I am joined by TFD Dietitian Lauren Nash and we are talking all things altitude!

In this episode, we will discuss what altitude is, why people train in it, what it does physiologically to your body in the short and long term, what the signs and symptoms of altitude sickness are, and we dispel some myths about alternative training methods that claim to replicate altitude. 

Today I am joined by TFD Dietitan’s Ryan Hasell and we are recapping our most recent trip in Salt Lake City for UFC 278.

This was quite possibly the most memorable and crazy experience in my professional career, and today Dojo and I are going to talk about the approaches we took with Tyson Pedro before his round one TKO win and with Leon Edwards before his insane 5th round head kick KO to take the Welterweight Title. 

Today I am joined by TFD Dietitian’s Jack Doherty and Lauren Nash and we are discussing whether or not weight should be used as a metric to track progress.

In this episode, we will cover why body weight and body composition is a polarizing subject when it comes to discussions around health when we think it is appropriate to use it, when we think it is not, and how to handle the mental implications that regularly checking the scales can bring and whether performance athletes need to be regularly checking their weight or not. 

Today I am joined by TFD Dietitian Ryan Hasell and we are recapping our most recent visit to Dallas Texas for UFC 277.

In this episode we discuss the week that we had preparing Kai Kara France for his UFC flyweight title shot, what working a UFC fight week is really like, what doing a UFC fight week in person was like for Ryan, and what he learnt from it and the most significant takeaways. 

This is a great one for any aspiring practitioners in the field. 

Let’s get to it. 

Today I am joined by TFD Performance Dietitian Loz Nash and we are continuing with the endurance series. Loz and I will be discussing hydration, electrolytes, and thermoregulation for endurance training and events.

We cover personalized hydration strategies, sweat rate, sodium sweat concentration, whether or not everyone needs to take electrolytes, dehydration, cramps, and overheating. 

Today I am joined by TFD Dietitan’s Jack Doherty and we are recapping our last two weeks away in the US of A.

Jack was away at PFL in Atlanta Georgia before flying to Las Vegas to help me with the guys for UFC 276 to get Alexander Volkanovski, Israel Adesanya, and Brad Riddell on weight and ready for war. 

In this episode, we will discuss the disastrous start to the trip jack had, and the effect this had on his weight cut with his athlete. We discuss what it is like working with high-level UFC fighters from your daily schedule to managing each individual athlete as part of a group. 

Today I am joined by TFD Dietitan’s Jack Doherty and Ryan Hasell and we are talking about why athletes go to such extremes when it comes to weight cutting. 

The weight-cutting problem in combat sports is serious and as it stands right now, we really don’t have a good solution. We’ve seen rule changes applied over the world really to avail, no matter what the hurdle is, athletes, seem to find a way to jump over it. 

So what is the solution? Before we get to that we need to better understand the athlete we are trying to change and that is what we are going to discuss today. If you work, study, or have anything to do with combat athletes, this should be an interesting listen. 

Today I am joined by TFD Performance Dietitian Loz Nash and we are continuing with the endurance series. Loz and I will be discussing the principles behind 'train low, compete high' which describes strategically training with low amounts of carbohydrates to induce specific metabolic adaptations thought to improve performance. We will assess the different approaches used, what the current science says, and what we find to be the best approach in our own practice. 

Today I am joined by TFD Performance Dietitian Ryan Hasell. In this episode Dojo and I are talking about intermittent fasting.  

We are going to talk about this popular practice and break down what fasting is, the different ways you can do it, the proposed benefits, what the science actually says, how it compares to energy restriction, and whether we think people should be doing it or not.