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Olympic breakfast: what to eat and when The Brownlee brothers have to take in calories while exercising to keep their energy levels up Georgie Gillard

The Brownlee brothers have to take in calories while exercising to keep their energy levels upGeorgie Gillard Published at 12:01AM, September 11 2012 Diet control is an essential aspect of an athlete’s training. Two Olympic nutritionalists talk to The Times Dr Kevin Currell Nutritionist for British Triathlon I’ve worked with the British Triathlon programme for five years and the Brownlee brothers were there at the start. We began by providing the Brownlees with basic cooking skills. If you can’t cook, you can’t provide yourself with the right types of food and nutrients. As they have such limited time, they have to prepare easy meals — it is never going to be gourmet food. Once upon a time, athletes would eat a whole load of pasta and get running. We know more now about what the body needs. Nutrition provides building blocks for the body and, as an elite athlete, if you don’t have those blocks, you’re not going to be able to adapt to the training or recover from it.


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