Pep Wants Nutrition Expert

yankcitizen76 said:
The club is paying out all these these contracts and they don't have a nutritionist? Almost every American sports club has nutritional requirements their players must follow. They screen the refreshments in training camp. Hell even a lot of college teams do it as well. With the kind of schedules athletes play nowadays there is just no cutting corners.
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Certainly true, but maybe not followed to a thorough or consistent degree everywhere. I may be remembering this wrong, but I think when Boston fired Terry Francona as manager his tolerance of players drinking beer and eating fried chicken after the games was floated as a main reason.

City seem to have such a classy and forward-thinking operation in general. If there really was no extensive sports nutrition department in place that would honestly astound me.

I'd imagine there was one but Pellers had probably checked out as far as giving it any influence or authority.
 
yankcitizen76 said:
I guess I'm just surprised that so many world class players would engage in any junk food during the season. It's the offseason now so that's not really an issue. But having seen a lot of ESPN and HBO documentaries on athletes now..... athletes now treat their bodies like holy temples. They make up for it with groupies and extravagant living.
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It would seem a lot of pot if you are an american football player (grid iron) a lot of suspensions ahead of the coming season.
 
bluealf said:
It would seem a lot of pot if you are an american football player (grid iron) a lot of suspensions ahead of the coming season.
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The lineman are probably fine. Maybe I overstated it. I mean I've seen videos of Vince Willfork dancing around as he loads up on baby back ribs. But then you'll But the positional players are always fretting about the best diet or "coming into camp in the best shape of my life." Most teams have a system and the players usually follow it.
 
deano ou812 said:
How long roughly would it take for the effects of diet/nutrition changes to kick in on the players,are we talking weeks or months if they keep to the plan..
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Depends on the scale of the change. A large shift in diet and training could see decent changes very quickly, others will only see very slight changes if they've been pretty hard on it already.
 
Raneiri took the Leicester players out for pizza when they got a clean sheet for the first time, did them no harm

I doubt very much that City do not have this covered. Maybe it just slight changes like the after match meal
 
It's bullshit, all he will want is players sticking around to eat together at the stadium after games.

Hardly a sacrifice.

The food at most clubs is an adapted healthier version of some of the expected no-good food, in liaison with nutritionists.

They all tend to stay clear of lamb.
 
Haven't read the thread, but the club should be employing a suitably-qualified dietitian rather than a nutritionist. You don't need any formal qualifications to call yourself a nutritionist and they are usually quacks.
 
Reading the Pep book and it was noted that when he arrived at Bayern, they were having pastries etc when they arrived at away games for preseason. Didn't say whether that usually carried on through the season, but Pep soon banned it. Amazing that athletes and those that pay their wages still act like that these days.

Considering the wages we play the players, he can make them wear hair shirts and eat only cabbage providing he keeps getting the results.
 
Stuuuuuu said:
Haven't read the thread, but the club should be employing a suitably-qualified dietitian rather than a nutritionist. You don't need any formal qualifications to call yourself a nutritionist and they are usually quacks.
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Yes but I think the bloke we employed had a full BTEC in the subject. Be irresponsible of the club otherwise.
 
bluesince76 said:
Reading the Pep book and it was noted that when he arrived at Bayern, they were having pastries etc when they arrived at away games for preseason. Didn't say whether that usually carried on through the season, but Pep soon banned it. Amazing that athletes and those that pay their wages still act like that these days.

Considering the wages we play the players, he can make them wear hair shirts and eat only cabbage providing he keeps getting the results.
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They'd just won the treble including the Champions League, I'm sure their diet can't have been too disastrous.
 
Cityfan said:
They'd just won the treble including the Champions League, I'm sure their diet can't have been too disastrous.
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yum yum
 
adrianr said:
My first question would be why on earth did we not have one already? Do we not have designs of being the biggest most successful club in the world? Did it really take Pep to come along to tell everyone diet is really important to performance of top level athletes?
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Surprisingly football has always been behind the times when it comes to nutrition and supplementation. I used to do some work for a rugby league club and they said back then (early 00s) that football was well behind either code of rugby and US sports like NFL when it comes to this. Seems City have still been way behind until now.
 
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