5,000 Calories in One Day — The Pro Cyclist Diet Challenge

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Have you ever wondered what professional cyclists eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? Well, I have. And today, we are going to find out exactly what they eat. Here on Good Grief, we are going to be eating like professional cyclist. I am a professional cycling coach and qualified sports nutritionist. That stuff’s quite expensive, isn’t it? That’s disgusting. My ribs. Got my ribs. 5 to 7,000 calories a day. So like meaty actually quite nice. No, no, no chance, bro. Have you seen that ste how the elevation of that throat? I’m exhausted. That’s such bad time. Like, oh, you know, I would never eat that. Surprised at how nice that was. That was really fluffy, one Oh, there he is. You excited to to eat like a cyclist chest? Oh, yeah. I heard there’s a smoothie for breakfast, son. Bit bit off. Where’s the steak? Jess, you excited to go to the restaurant today? Yeah, man. Ah, yes. In case it wasn’t obvious, we broke the news to Francis that morning that instead of a Michelin star restaurant, he’d actually be spending the day as a professional cyclist. And it just so happened to be the hottest day of the year in England. So, we imagined he wouldn’t be too pleased about this. So, sorry about that. Francis, where are we going? Hi, Joe. Joe, this is Francis. Joe’s going to explain what we’re doing today. How are you doing, Francis? Mate, nice to meet you. This is Joe. He’s a professional cycling coach. He literally tells proathletes what to do. So, he does know a thing or two about nutrition and cycling. Today, our mission is simple. To eat like a professional cyclist to see what it’s like. Do you know what you were doing? No idea. I’ve been told to take your camera and um we’ll just got your cycling kit. So, I’m I’m a a cycling coach and sports nutritionist and um I think we’re going to go out do some exercise, see what I eat and in a day. I didn’t wake up this morning thinking I’m going to do some exercise. It’s only the hottest day of the year. It’s going to be hotter than Barbados. That is my weakness. I poor Francis. Anyway, anyway, we will be eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner with Joe. Starting off with a typical breakfast. Okay. So, you’re actually you’re allowed to eat honey and stuff like that. I thought there’d be like no sugar, no fun. Oh, no. Complete opposite. Really? Yeah. Good fun. Good fun. Complete opposite. Yeah. So, like endurance sport is all about is about energy. So, these are the bits that are going to give us all the energy basically. So, whilst we’re getting this ready, Yeah. For the people that don’t know who you are. Yeah. Can you just explain like your job title, what you do and and I guess like what makes you qualified to tell us what a professional cyclist would would eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner? I am a professional cycling coach and qualified sports nutritionist. So, I have qualifications in cycle coaching and some other bits and pieces and sports nutrition qualification as well. And my day-to-day is helping athletes get better at cycling and achieve the things they want to do. So my clients might be entering races in the UK. They might be going abroad to do stuff. So yeah, my job is to work with them, tell them, educate them about nutrition and how they can get the best out of themselves on the bike. So it’s kind of about it’s about making sure that they’re well fueled to be able to do the training. So that’s kind of one element is making sure they’ve got energy to be able to do it and then recover from it as well. I’ve worked I’ve worked in the industry for quite a long time and when you’re coaching people, I mean, nutrition is a massive part of it, isn’t it? Yeah, it’s it’s it’s at least half of the job. I’d say 5 to 7,000 calories a day, which is like three three three U’s worth of food. So you’ve got So you got to eat four four normal days worth of food every day to support what you’re doing. Good grief. So I think what we want to achieve today is if any of us want to walk away and enter into one of these uh big races that you coach people for, we would feel equipped with the knowledge of what to eat and drink or what we can eat and drink in order to achieve that. Yep. I think we’re all pretty excited to see like what the dos and don’ts are of professional cycling nutrition. Breakfast we’re about to make here is something I do basically every morning before a training session and it’s really quite simple. Any questions coming to mind on nutrition? Uh you prefer smooth over crunchy peanut butter. It’s the reason you’re invited to these. There’s absolutely zero difference. This will be about 5 600 calories in this smoothie for breakfast. It’s a lot. It’s quite a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Take supplements. What you say? Why are you avoiding it? What did you take? Nothing illegal. One sip, one schooner. Oh yeah, that is amazing. Very peanut peanut buttery, isn’t it? How does that compare to your Michelin stars? I love stuff like this though. I think that is tastes like ice cream. It’s really fantastic. And they’re so they’re so it’s so easy to make. Want tuna? Could do with some crunchy peanut butter. I couldn’t. You want to try it, Ralph? I’m starving. Oh, yeah. That’s good, eh? The ice actually I feel makes a difference. Damn, that’s delicious. What happens if you’re doing endurance training? It’s the same same kind of thing. If people have those foods and they’re trying to lose weight, you then you go out and do exercise and you you burn a lot of energy when you’re doing the exercise and you haven’t put much energy in before. So, if you don’t fuel the training so much, when you come back, you’re then so hungry because you haven’t put any energy in. It’s depleted battery so much and then your your brain starts saying to you like panic stations, panic mode, like get some get some food in which then when people start craving all the high sugar, high fat yesterday. Yeah. Monkey break. But I didn’t even think about it until you said it. But yeah, the whole evening I was literally just like Yeah. I was eating like hums by the handful. Like I never I looked at my dad’s and they were like there’s a bowl of hum and I was just like, “Yeah.” You want to make sure that you’re hydrated. Okay. So, what what are they like? Brocka. It kind of tastes like a broccoli. Yeah. But it’s just about It’s got mostly sodium and potassium electrolytes that will help you hydrate really fast. At what point do you take your first Let let it let it let it fully fully fizzle out. Yeah. Let them cook. What do you think, Shar? Is it nice? Delicious. Yeah. Yeah. It’s not bad, is it? I was kind of expecting not not to like it, but salty like paracetamol or something. Is it like a That’s good for It’s just It’s super concentrated beetroot juice. Oh, flip. We’ll try some of that. So, what is this? It’s It’s uh It’s like condensed beetroot juice. That stuff’s quite expensive, isn’t it? Yeah. Yeah, these are quite expensive. These are £3 a coffee. Blimey. And why would you want to Why would you? Because what the the science behind this is do something called lactic acid buffering. So it will reduce how hard a high intensity effort feels. If you’re sprinting up a hill, you load up on this and you load your system full of nitrates, which is the what’s beach juice has got a lot a lot of it. It will make the make it feel a bit easier. Really the color of your weight. That’s disgusting. It is pretty rancid. Oh, that’s actually awful. Have a sip. Have a sip. This didn’t even want to go there. Mhm. Oh, it doesn’t even taste like beetroot, does it? It’s like It kind of tastes like gravy, is it? Yeah, it does. It’s like meaty. It’s disgusting. Go on, Ralph. Ralph, down it, mate. Down the hatch. [Music] No way needed. Oh, play it. Oh, he needs it. I need that if we’re going to cycle. Yeah, down the hole like a homesick mole. Look at that. What do you think? This is actually quite nice. Yeah, really. Make sure you get my uh nice brown legs. Nice brown legs. You don’t need any color grading on these. No, no, at all. We’re here in the beautiful the beautiful Yavland. Oh, the Culver down. We’re here at the beautiful Culver down on the amazing aisle of white and it’s just the most perfect day today to be cycling. Professional cyclist. Yeah. Looking forward to it. No, no, no chance, bro. Have you seen that? How the elevation of that road? You have a professional cycling coach. You’ll be fine. But like the thing is you fueled up, you had your beetroot juice. Okay. I haven’t had any like proper warm up. You know what I mean? Well, I don’t know what to tell you, Chaz. Could you got some advice? Uh, maybe a bit. Do a bit now. Oh, he looks like a professional. I don’t know what you’re worried about. Sup, homies. It’s Tony. Go on, bud. Ralph’s an absolute alpha male. He’s got such a big head. He’s not piercing at all. Look like a giant mushroom. Hold on, mushroom. I’m not sure it would pass any like I don’t I mean it’s on your head. [Music] How was that? Filthy. Yeah. [Music] Yeah. Sprinting. They’re sprinting. Come on, Rub. Come on, R. I had the flat bit and I tell you what, I’m I’m exhausted. You know, that’s it’s not easy. And to go, you know, Joe met us here. So, you’ve already done one. You’ve gone back down and come up again. He’s not even broken a sweat. Look at the guy. We are here in C view and we’re at Lily. If he’s doing a big cycling ride, then he’ll end up stopping at a cafe and grabbing a bite to eat. Oh, fantastic. Like your flat jacks now or after your food? That’s such bad timing. We just lined up a shot. It’s coffee. Where do you start? Do you get like a pair of Salipets and what you wear out from there? So, uh, salipets are what you wear when you go skiing. And what are they called? What are they called on the bottom half? Bib shorts. Oh, I’ve been calling them sales for the long. You wouldn’t want to buy yourself a pair of salad pairs to go sighting. Salad pet. So you’ve got all your your jelly babies and your phone and stuff like that. Your banana got banana. I had bunch of these jerseys cycling jerseys like back in the day. It doesn’t fit in doesn’t fit in me anymore. [Laughter] Like oh you know I would never eat that or I’d never do this or just kind of say like you know it’s a free-for-all. I’ll eat whatever I want. Kind of comes down to if you know if you know what you’re eating and you know what’s in the food that you’re eating, you can pretty much eat anything. So I I never say to anybody you can’t have some there’s be there’s almost nothing off limits. It’s just a case of like knowing when you have it and what how much of it to have. Very pleasant. Does a job. I have a full. Right, we’re at Tesco’s. We’re going to find out what a professional cyclist can eat and can’t eat. Do you need a Do you want a trolley? some med veg, rice, little salad on the side. Oo, that actually sounds pretty naughty. Yeah. Yeah, that’s in my mind in like the more the more colors that we can get in there for like an evening meal, recovery meal, the better. That’s a good rule of thumb. Yeah. Loads better. More colors means more multivit more like micronutrients. So, more vitamins, minerals, etc. All will help the recovery. Will help you feel decent the next day. Okay. And next to protein. Is that right? So we need some protein and then we need our carbohydrates. So normally sorry. I was walking. Uh well this bit is going to be the Mediterranean veg which is effectively just pretty much any vegetable chopped up, chucked in a in a tray and then doussed with some olive oil and whatever herbs and seasonings you kind of pretty much fancy. This meal now which is our recovery meal for the evening. So this is a great meal for like any any athlete really is all about different colors, quite complex stuff. So like vegetables are fantastic but quite complex. You wouldn’t have them before before training cuz it sits in your stomach. It’s quite hard to digest. My my actual favorite food is pizza. Pizza. I thought that to be like a really good cyclist or a good endurance athlete, you have to eat like super healthy. Mhm. So like salads, like just, you know, tons of really healthy food, loads of vegetables, loads of salads. Um, and I got like, you know, really, really skinny basically and really unwell. Um, so, wow. Yeah, I cuz you were still like training like Yeah, I was still training loads and I I thought at the time um that I felt so rubbish because I was just like not fit enough or not getting fit enough, but actually it was because I wasn’t fueling myself properly and yeah, I got really bad. So, I got signed off work for like 2 months. Was it like a unknown thing at the time or Yeah, I had I had I didn’t I didn’t It sounds really silly now, but it’s why I’m so like passionate about it now. Yeah. Uh yeah, I didn’t really know. I didn’t know. I knew that I was trying to eat healthy and I probably I was trying to lose weight, but I didn’t realize um quite so how much it was having like a negative impact on me. I mean, I I literally woke up one day and I couldn’t I couldn’t think. Um Yeah. Yeah. I remember getting on the train. I used to listen to like podcasts and I couldn’t like the words was going in one ear and coming straight out the other ear and I was like, “Oh god, this is this is bad. This is bad.” Yeah. And then I effectively worked out, you know, fairly fairly soon after that which uh reignited like a big thing about learning more about nutrition. Fried salmon with jasmati rice and mixed vegetables that have been cooked in the oven. Looks fantastic, doesn’t it? Right. It’s brilliant. You just managed to flirt off. Oh, yeah. Joe’s done like two pretty hefty bike riders today. I’ve eaten like a breeze block of flipping flat jacks as well. So, this is what the professional cyclist eats. Yeah. So excited for this. Wow. Surprised at how nice that was. That was really filthy, wasn’t it? Come on, Ralph. Have a little try. Is it as good as the Tom Hawk steak? Well, I hope you’ve learned something today and you’ve enjoyed watching what a professional cycling athlete would eat. Um, we’ve certainly enjoyed, haven’t we, Ch? We’re lovely. Yeah, Joe, thanks so much for feeding us and showing us the ropes on the road as well. We look, we really appreciate it, don’t we? Yeah. Showed me how to um cycle uphill properly. It only lasted like 30 seconds. Thanks for watching. If you enjoyed this episode, don’t forget to leave us a like and a comment if you did enjoy it and subscribe to the channel if you want to see more stuff like this. We are curious about food. We want to try different food and we want to try different experiences. So, if you like that and you like the sound of it, uh don’t forget to subscribe. Thanks to Ralph as well, the man behind the camera. Hey, can I have a round of applause for Ralph? Well done, Ralph. See you next time, gang. Bye for now. Bye.