When traveling with a basketball team in Torino, Patrick Burnett faced limited healthy food choices at a pizza restaurant before a game.
To guide the players' nutrition, he analyzed the menu and assigned gold, silver, and bronze/red ratings to each item, mirroring the team's shot selection strategy.
This allowed players to quickly identify the best options for pre-game fuel despite the challenging circumstances, demonstrating a practical application of shared team methodology.
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In this episode, Alex Sarama is joined by Patrick Burnett, an applied sport and exercise nutritionist. They discuss the importance of nutrition in basketball and how it can be integrated into basketball programs at all levels. Paddy shares practical strategies for optimizing nutrition, including the use of external cues, hydration stations, electrolyte drinks, carbohydrate and recovery snacks, and travel strategies. They also explore the concept of constraints and how it applies to nutrition in basketball.