• Para Sports Nutrition

  • By: Liz Broad
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Para Sports Nutrition

By: Liz Broad
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  • Summary

  • Para athletes, or athletes with a disability, require sports nutrition recommendations to be adapted to their specific sport, impairment, practical and/or medical needs. Liz Broad, Sports Dietitian, helps answer athletes and sports nutritionists questions and find ways to optimise your sporting performance through interviews with researchers, sports nutrition practitioners, coaches, athletes and other sports performance personnel.
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Episodes
  • E100 Sports Medicine with Steve Reid

    E100 Sports Medicine with Steve Reid
    Jan 24 2024

    Dr Steve Reid is a sport and exercise physician and Chief Medical Officer of Paralympics Australia. Steve talks to us about how he got into working in sports medicine, and focuses on the medical issues that he sees most commonly in Para athletes and how nutrition inter-relates with them.
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    42 mins
  • E99 Erin Popovich Para swimmer

    E99 Erin Popovich Para swimmer
    Dec 13 2023

    Erin Popovich is a 3 time Paralympic swimmer with achondroplasia who won 14 gold medals and 5 silver medals, 2 ESPYs and numerous other accolades. Erin is currently the Director of Para Swimming for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, and has held positions as the Classification Coordinator and program manager of other sports within the USOPC. Erin talks to us about her journey as a para swimmer, her transition into classification coordinator and what classification is about, and provides her insights into the current status and future of Para sports and athletes.
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • E98 Sean Pollard Para Snowboarder

    E98 Sean Pollard Para Snowboarder
    Nov 29 2023

    Sean Pollard is an Australian para snowboarder who competed at the PyeongChang Paralympic games and, after taking a break, is back competing again. Sean is a bilateral arm amputee as a result of a shark attack when surfing. Sean talks to us about his journey into para snowboard, his training and how he's becoming more serious about his nutrition.
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    25 mins
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