Episode #186
Build sustainable, long-term nutrition habits aligned with your goals instead of chasing restrictive, short-term diets.
Time macronutrients to activity: prioritize carbs around higher-intensity training, include protein every ~3 hours, and emphasize fats during lower-activity periods (e.g., dinner).
Chronic low-carb intake can impair neurotransmitter production and mental health; keto can stabilize blood sugar but is often unsustainable under training or stress.
Eating fat has no bearing on being fat.
But good, solid performance nutrition, regardless of what you're trying to perform for, requires more skill and more habituation than it does any single factor.
Step one, make sure you're fueling your body and your brain every three hours with some protein.
Performance nutrition for YOU. (42:36)
Clint Wattenberg is currently the Director of Nutrition at the UFC Performance Institute in Las Vegas. Clint was a 2X All American wrestler at Cornell University and a member of the US National Team. He is a registered dietician and earned his master’s degree in exercise physiology. He now works with some of the top MMA athletes in the world.
