Renee McGregor

protein from beans.

Sports dietitian Renee McGregor has worked with Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games teams, as well as being nutrition lead for the English and Scottish National Ballet.

She says that for would-be footballers, the earlier you bang in the beans, the better.

What we know from sports science is that protein has always been the food group that we... we consider particularly in response to exercise.

So we can tell them exactly what prebiotic supplement will give them the best result and what is the dose likely to have an effect.

Or, you know, maybe we will find out that it's all about beans and they should be eating more beans rather than a supplement.

So what advice then would Renee McGregor

have for our 13-year-old athletes?

And it was like-- And I thought I was getting better, but I wasn't, and that's when I really had to, like, dial it back in.

Um, my-- I got a doctor, I spoke to a psychologist, I got a nutritionist called Renee McGregor, um, and my coach, and they literally sat me down and said, and Pippa Wolven, and they sat me down and said, "We have to take time off." I had five weeks completely no activity.

I moved back home, and I think you've had, you've mentioned you've had a sacrum stress fracture.

It's like-

Yeah.

Um, well, it's been, uh, just to backtrack a lot, I, I found it quite a intriguing journey, uh, for me personally, and I, I'm lucky to work with, um, sports dietician Renee McGregor.

And at first I did, like, a blood test every six months because I didn't, you know, I didn't want athletically-

Yeah

Okay

... you know, getting the macronutrient in.

Uh, that's what Re- yeah, Renee McGregor says.

Um, so you've got to space it through the day.

And so yeah, so it's, it's a tough, tough one.

Um, the biggest advice, so I had to get a nutritionist, um, Renee McGregor, and the biggest advice she told me, and I live by now, is you know, like the 10% rule, for example, in mileage, do that with your food.

Mm-hmm.

So what I say to people, for example, is if you do think you are struggling with food or anything, like, and you're at a very big deficit each day, it's gonna be, you need to do a slow process.