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And now let's get into our recent conversation with Page Love.

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Page is a registered and licensed dietician.

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She works with college teams as well as both professional tours, the ATP and the WTA.

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She offers some amazing advice for every tennis player.

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Have a listen and let us know what you think.

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Who are you and why do we care?

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I am Page Love.

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I am a sport dietician, but I'm also a registered and licensed dietician, which is important

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as tennis players seek their nutrition advice.

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You'd want that person to be qualified in the field, just like we have certified tennis

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teaching press.

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We want to do the same thing in the nutrition area too.

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I own my own consulting business.

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I consult with a lot of tennis players, college teams, and both professional tours, the

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only registered dietician sport dietician for the ATP tour internationally.

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I'm one of three dieticians for the WTA tour.

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I actually travel for both tours, do on-site tournament work, grew up in Atlanta playing

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junior tennis.

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I play college tennis for Baylor.

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I still play, but I have to say, you guys might not like this.

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I'm also playing some pickleball.

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It's helping my tennis.

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I'm telling you, it's helping my reaction time and my movement.

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But I love my records forths and I still participate.

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I also write a regular column for Altenette News.

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As people hear what we talk about today, if you're interested in reading more about some

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tennis-very consumer-oriented sport nutrition information, there's lots on the Alta website.

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They catalog everything that we've put up there.

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Lots of nutrition topics related to tennis.

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I love it.

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Bobby, I'm going to let you jump in early.

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I'm going to encourage you to jump in early because you know Paige from back in the day,

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should I say?

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Paige and I were mixed doubles partners back in the day for a couple of successful seasons.

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Now, she continues to play.

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I think I pretty much retired as her as my mixed doubles partner.

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We had a lot of success at 003, a lot of success at 002, and then we went to 001 during the

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summer and that was Waterloo.

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We were all in our mid-30s.

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A couple of people made the mistake again in relationships.

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The team wasn't as much fun as it was when we started, but we had a couple really good

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seasons.

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We had quite a wild following.

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We had a gentleman.

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He remember Dave Snyder, Paige, the guy he played on a different team, but he liked us

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so much.

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He would play his match and then come join us because we played out of it.

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A department complex, our first year, and they let us have access to the pool.

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He had literally a mobile, bloody, merry kit.

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I mean, in the pool, they floated and it post-match, this is what we did.

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Like you said, Paige and I had a lot of success.

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Now, I'm not going to rat Paige out and say, "Probably, we didn't have the best out of food

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next to it, but that's for another time."

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That is something I do address in those out to articles.

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The right kinds of food to have for the team play, but I will say the bloody merry mix actually

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is decent sodium recovery.

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Not the alcohol, but the bloody merry mix.

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Tomato part is actually excellent for recovery.

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I'm pretty sure they would not throw it.

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Yeah, that's it.

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Bloody marries to recover from just drink the mix.

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Virgin, Virgin, Bloody marries, or just tomatoes.

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There we go.

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There's the real advice.

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Then, the real question here is, you've got connections on to or what everybody wants to

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know.

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Do you know Coco Gough?

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I have met her and I have worked with her briefly.

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We have very, I would say they're not, you know, sit down for two hours and talk to a player.

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When you're on site, I'm in the training room, so it's brief interactions.

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One of the roles that the dieticians serves is we review quarterly blood work.

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We also prescribe supplementation based on low-sir highs and people's blood work, also medical

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issues that they're reporting.

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The main interactions with the players are in reviewing their diet and blood work at that

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time.

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Also addressing if they've had heat illness, that's the biggest issue, obviously, on the

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tour.

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In fact, they target us at hot tournaments so that we can help in the moment when they're

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having heat illness.

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So, I've had interactions with she and many on these kinds of topics.

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Just keeping the girls healthy, it's kind of cool to watch what's happening on the women's

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tour. Their sport nutrition, sport medicine program is quite extensive and we've seen that

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the women are staying healthier and they're not getting as run down.

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They're not getting as many colds.

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We're helping them maintain more normal blood levels of key nutrients like vitamin D and

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iron, which impact their immune system and their energy.

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It's really neat to be able to look at the big picture and provide them what they need.

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Like I was saying, with the college teams, I go with the players to eat even in the players

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I only have them get an optimum sport nutrition meal sometimes before or after.

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So pre-play, post-play, I'm dealing a lot with that.

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Pre-match post-match nutrition as well as their hydration needs and around the heat, all

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my sense of it.

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Love it and that's got to be such a fun thing to do.

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But I'm picturing you with a notebook flipping through blood work.

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Okay, Coco, here's your blood work and Alex, here's your blood work.

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Taylor, this is ridiculous.

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Come over here and talk to me.

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What does that even look like?

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You gave us a little glimpse just a second ago, but how is that?

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The women, we do a lot of our work very out of sight like in the training room and sometimes

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we'll have a sightly private area.

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You just write there in the training room, honestly sometimes right when they're receiving physical

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therapy because their time is so limited.

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So the dietitians are placed in a visual place.

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Remember when they'll see us to think, "Yeah, I need to talk to you about blah, blah, blah."

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Or "I need to talk to you about blah, blah, blah."

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So we will get to visually be there while they're getting medical care.

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It's a very team treatment orientation for them with the men because I'm not in the training

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room.

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I'm usually out in the players' arms.

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A tournament, I go to tournaments a lot for the men in the US, Miami Open and DC Open,

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both because heat illness can be an issue.

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But I'm positioned in the players' lounge and I do actual heat stress testing.

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I test their saliva to determine, are they well hydrated before they go on the court so

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they can make adjustments right away.

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The concentration of our saliva tells us about how well hydrated we are.

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I do pre-impose match weights with a pretty sophisticated scale that looks at total body

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water shifts so they can know how much water weight they've lost in their sweat so that they

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can immediately rehydrate.

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They can also, obviously, before, if it's showing any levels of dehydration, we can encourage

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them to appropriately drink.

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I also sweat tests the men on the spot, which means they, I give them a patch that they

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wear during their warm-ups before matches in the heat and they bring it back.

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I squeeze out the sweat into a test tube into a little tray and I have a device that touches

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a computer ship that touches the sweat and it can tell specifically the sodium loss per

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hour.

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And now the sport nutrition has gotten so sophisticated that we can then prescribe, "Okay, you need to do

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this much of this beverage that contains this amount of sodium to keep up with the rate

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that you're losing salt in your sweat."

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Some of the men have sweat rates upwards of 2000 milligrams of sodium loss per hour and

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the US dietary recommendations for sodium low end are 2000 milligrams per the whole day,

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but they're losing 2000 milligrams per hour in the court.

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I don't know if you all have notice.

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There's all kinds of electrolyte powders and formulas and pills and salt sticks and all

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kinds of stuff.

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So the insurgents of the high sodium products has really matched the science identifying

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that increased sodium losses.

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I think that pretty much answers the "Why are you unique?" question that we usually have

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because it's really great information.

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The only other off-script question I have is Bobby, are you willing to share your post-coaching,

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post-on-court meal with Paige to say, "Hey, is this the right thing I should be doing

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after being out in the sun?"

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No, but I do want to say, I mean, I think that's a great way to look at it because I, you

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know, as we've gotten older and as the tennis player in Atlanta has gotten older, I, my limited

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medical background, which keeping them on, I was pretty long, not pre-med, I think, you

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know, there's been a, it seems like a more, a lot more what I call the calf injuries over

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the last 20 years where, you know, 25 years ago, people weren't popping calves.

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I think it's a combination of where older playing and the other side is we don't hydrate properly.

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So if you have a 9 a.m. or a 1 p.m., depending on what male or woman, when should you start,

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what year, when should the alpha tennis player start hydrating to be ready for that match?

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Not, you know, I'm going to eat a banana, you know, the old Michael Chang eat a banana at

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10 a.m. in the middle of my match because that's going to do something.

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That might be alive, but that's not helping you with your hydration.

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Which, when should you realistically begin to hydrate?

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Well, what, what you just described as the typical mentality, I would say even, even on the

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ATP tour, I'm always a little surprised that some of the guys are modally dehydrated when

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we do these hydration tests and this is, you know, a couple hours before they're going

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to be playing.

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So that's when people start thinking about it, when they start thinking about their hydration

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and that's really too late.

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I mean, it really needs to be a daily routine.

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And then, yes, and then between the two to four hours before we want to be additionally

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pre-hydrating, even with electrolyte sources if you're in the heat.

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And then leading up to match play, you bring down the volume, but I would say on average,

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we really want to be doing at least 16 ounces per hour going backwards leading up to match

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play in the heat.

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Now, it can be half of that when you're playing in a colder environment and you're not sweating

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as much where I feel like players have really gotten the messages or on court hydration because

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obviously they're thinking about how much to drink on court and we really recommend about

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four to eight ounces every 15 to 20 minutes.

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And then tennis, we have the perfect opportunity, unlike pickleball, to stop at the changeovers

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and drink adequately.

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And you know, if you're not drinking at a changeover, that's something you got to really

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jump on, take advantage of it.

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And I really encourage having a little bit of water and a little bit of your electrolyte

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beverage, or sport beverage pending what you're drinking and what your needs are given

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the heat.

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So, you know, half a cup to a cup every 15 to 20 minutes to keep up with even low sweat rate

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levels.

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Most players don't keep up with that, so thus the need to know, okay, how much have I lost

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in a match?

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And of course, a lot of people would be like, great, I lost some weight, but when you've lost

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it in that short time period, that is simply sweat loss.

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And if you're going to play another match, you know, if a player in an tournament has

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a singles one time and it doubles out another time, you want to be fully rehydrated by the

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time you're getting back out to that second match.

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Another very simple thing, a good takeaway on this discussion that anyone can do is just

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look at your urine color.

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We are always asking, "Are athletes looking at urine color?"

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In the WTA locker room stalls, we have the urine color chart, and it goes from clear

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all the way down to a dark brown with levels of hydration based on your urine color.

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And the goal is a light yellow, we call it lemonade yellow color.

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If you're clear, you're over hydrating.

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So we want a little bit of concentration, that's a normal color.

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And if it's that dark, dark yellow, then you're becoming dehydrated.

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And we expect players when they come off of the court to be a little bit dehydrated and

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then to drink accordingly to bring that back up to the appropriate hydration level, that

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light yellow.

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So just checking, urine color can be a great way to be aware of your hydration status.

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There you go, that's good to know right there.

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And going back to what you said, Sean, what would you, how long before a match page and

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what would you say would be, I'm not out of it.

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I guess my first point I was saying is you don't want to just be thinking about right before

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the match.

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You want to keep your daily hydration on schedule, be evenly hydrating throughout the day,

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reaching out for those caffeinated beverages closer to tour.

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There's often energy drink sponsors that want to sponsor a lot of these tour events.

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And we just try to keep those energy drinks as far away from the players as we can.

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We can't stop them from giving it to the consumers.

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But obviously we don't want high caffeine any time close to the match because that's a

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diuretic.

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It causes you to pee out, mark fluid.

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So the four hours before with good hydration practice is leading up to that stable in

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the training diet.

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And then that four hours before trying to get the one to two cup range, ideally the bottle

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of water per hour, the regular half liter bottle of water per hour leading up to that match

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time.

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So now take it where would what's the time for food intake and what would be a good pre match

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meal?

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Well, in the ideal situation, you know, but you know, attendance is like an attorney.

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You don't really know when you're going to get on because you're waiting for players matches

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to finish.

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That's definitely what happens in the pro world, ideally three hours before to allow adequate

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digestion time.

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You want a high carbohydrate meal, a little bit of protein, lower fat.

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You want it to be fuels that are going to quickly provide fuel for the player, capping

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off energy from their eating from the previous day and that morning.

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So if it's a breakfast meal, something like oatmeal and toast and an egg and fruit would

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be a great meal.

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If it's a lunch meal on the tour, I would say pasta is still one of the most popular meals.

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A pasta or rice base that's taking up half of the plate, maybe a quarter of the plate

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in a protein, in a quarter of the plate in a light cook vegetable.

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You don't want to do a lot of big salad meals before you play.

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That doesn't give you energy.

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Even if you're watching your way, you're going to go on the court with low energy.

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You don't want to do heavy protein, you know, in these days with the popularity of keto

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and paleo, that doesn't work for tennis.

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I did a whole extensive research article on why these high protein low carb diets do not

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work for the tennis player.

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Tennis is anaerobic.

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Lots of short power.

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And a road moves on a court.

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What fuel set is carbohydrate?

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If you're on a low carb diet, you're not going to make it to the third set at the same energy

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level you started off with.

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You are going to be draining the tank pretty quickly.

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So complex carbohydrates, carbying it up with things like rice, pasta, starchy vegetables,

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corn, peas, beans, bowl meals are great.

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I love a bowl meal for a tennis player, but not doubling protein.

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So I have a 9 AM match.

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We're focused, I mean, mostly about social tennis, right?

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So the tour players already know, hopefully, what you know because you've told them.

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But the people listening to this podcast, it's probably not cocoa herself.

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But somebody with a 9 AM match, are you telling me I got to have breakfast at 6 AM?

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Well, if you don't get up early, if you're not an early person, then you need to volume decrease.

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So here's the on the run choice.

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Sean would be something like a cliff energy bar in a banana and you know, you're one to

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do bottles of water, something like that.

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Or what I like to remind people with bars is think about the food equivalent of a bar.

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A cliff bar is like a bagel and a bar.

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I'd rather you have the food.

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I'd rather you have the bagel with maybe a little bit of peanut butter to give you a little

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bit of protein, banana for some quick energy and potassium and then the water for your hydration.

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So if I'm in, let's say 730, I can be in the car at 8.

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I'm driving to my match by 9.

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I can have my breakfast at 730.

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Yeah, I was told that breakfast right there.

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But I will say the disclaimers, each person has unique gastric emptying times.

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Some people who tend to be nervous might need more time and other people who are used to

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eating closer to their activity time may tolerate a shorter window.

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The ideal window for a full meal would be 2 to 3 hours.

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A lot of people can tolerate a high carbohydrate, small meal like that within one to one and

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a half hours before.

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Yeah, we all love that tennis player that shows up and you get warmed up and they're like,

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"Oh, I'm going to go to the bathroom real quick."

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Really?

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Now?

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I'm going to get it.

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We can't really control it, but you didn't put any thought into this before.

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And the runners were about runners' trots.

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I don't know if there's a term for tennis.

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We could call it tennis trots.

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There's a term for it, but we won't use it on this pocket.

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I just thought it was part of the ladies warm up.

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Okay, we're done.

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We need to use the restroom before we can play.

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Okay.

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It's just every time, right?

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Every time.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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So, we've covered hydration, we've covered nutrition from a meal perspective.

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We've missed anything, Paige.

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What else do you have for our audience that can really be helpful from an actionable advice

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perspective?

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And Sean, kind of, I think it's covering nutrition.

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Uncourt nutrition.

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Don't forget it's okay to have portable, little, easy to digest carbide resources in your

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racquet bag.

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So that would be things like, I recommend the little hunter-cali pretzels because what

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you can digest is plain bland carbs and if they're salty, even better.

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Of course, the higher carbohydrate energy bars, so that would be things like cliff or

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Bobo.

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I really like another brand called ProBar.

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That's all natural.

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It's almost like a trail mix in a bar.

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So having those kind of things in your bag, I also am a fan of energy chews, which have

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a little bit of starch and solution with electrolytes in what's like a gummy chew.

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These are used in a lot of sports, but those are great on a tennis court, too, particularly

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going into a third set when you're feeling like a sport beverage is not enough energy and

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you're kind of hitting a low, but you don't feel like you can stomach solid food.

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You don't feel like you could stomach a bar.

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Then the energy chews are easier to digest.

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And what's very similar to those are gels.

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You'll see a lot of players on the tour squeezing gels and these are primarily high carbohydrate

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solutions, which have a little starch and solution, very much like the chew.

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It's more viscous, but with both of those, you have to make sure that you're drinking water

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or that it just kind of glons up and up or gets.

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So you want to make it available, drinking your water and sport beverage with it.

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So it dilutes it down to make cities easier to digest.

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Got it.

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And Bobie reminded us of the question, what should Bobie be eating after he comes off

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the court?

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All right.

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So that's recovery nutrition and what a lot of players forget to do is to get a good

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quick.

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And with post-hydrating, we kind of talked about important is to pick up for the sweat

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losses.

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So continuing to drink your water and sport beverage to continue to post-hydrate because

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we're still sweating and cooling down.

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But then as soon as you feel like you're able to stomach something more solid, trying

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to get a very easy to digest protein source chocolate milk is a great choice.

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So grabbing a chocolate milk, having a little bit of a protein type bar at that time.

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So that would be like a cliff builder bar or a protein plus power bar or even a nut based

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bar would give you like an Rx bar would give you some protein.

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So you just want a quick digestible form of protein.

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Is there an liquid form or an a solid but portable easy to quickly eat form?

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And then trying to get a good meal.

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So this is back to Bobie's, I don't know what he's eating, but trying to replicate the

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fuel usage in the meal choices on the back end.

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So we still need replenish carbohydrates.

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We can handle a little bit more protein at that point because we're going into a resting

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time.

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We don't need to watch the protein level.

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We can have a little bit more for recovery and we can also have more vegetables at that

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time and then continuing to have hydrating beverages at the post meal.

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So that's where we could afford to have a lean steak or a nice salmon filet, a bigger

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piece of meat along with similar carbs.

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Carbohydrate carbs like rice's potatoes, pastas and then maybe a side salad or a cook veggie.

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But more volume in that recovery meal, particularly if you've had a three set match and you've

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been out there for several hours and have expended a lot of calories.

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So you couldn't afford to have like a bobby we covered all.

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So my cheeseburger and french fries are in the ballpark.

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They're just not.

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Well, there are some redeeming points to that.

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The burger if it's lean is lean protein, the bun is still some carbohydrate, but it's probably

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a little more fat coming one than you burnt on the court.

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So just keep that in mind.

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Message here.

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Now one quick personal question page because I take a morning concoction, I call it.

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It's a tablespoon and a half of virgin olive oil, tablespoon and a half of lemon juice and

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every now and then I sprinkle inside and I literally do this empty stomach every day.

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It's terrible tasting, but is it actually doing something positive?

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Well, I mean, each of those has some nutritional value.

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What do you think you're getting from it?

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Why are you doing that, bobby?

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Because I want YouTube, who's the nutritionist who said this is great for you because obviously

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I don't eat real well.

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So I want this is my band aid for all my bad habits to start the day with some extra virgin

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olive oil.

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Yeah.

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So you're getting a good healthy and saturated healthy oil.

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Yes.

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So that's it.

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But that table swims a nice little chunk of healthy fat there.

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So just keep that in mind.

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I wouldn't do that right before you go on the tennis court.

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The cayenne is highly anti-inflammatory, but could be a little rough on the tummy.

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I don't know if it, but anybody who's in the sense of stomach might be a little cautious

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on doing that.

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I don't see any problem with you doing that in your day.

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I just would do that concoction right before you're about to play.

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I think it can feel a little heavy number one and possibly irritating to the gut.

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But those those food sources, the nutrients present there are things that we can benefit

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from for sure.

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So not such a bad idea.

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I know you got one going for you, Bobby.

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Watch the right YouTube guy.

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All right.

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Exactly.

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I think we're good.

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Bobby, anything else before we hit her with King of tennis or Queen of tennis in this case?

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I mean, we were doubles partners.

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I wasn't really, I didn't know she went to Baylor.

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How did we get along so well?

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What's wrong with Baylor?

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I've looked at you.

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I mean, we were, we were rivals for Pete's Hates.

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We were up and down 35 from each other.

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I passed Baylor all the time on my way to UT to go party.

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Yeah.

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Good part about it is we eventually grew up.

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I don't know how that never came up.

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I don't know how that didn't come up.

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Maybe for a reason.

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We'll page.

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We appreciate you being here.

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We have one last question that we always love to ask in your case.

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It is the queen of tennis question.

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But we'd love to know if you were made queen of tennis, whether it was the professional

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tour, social, the whole world or just local here to Atlanta, is there anything as queen

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of tennis?

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Is there anything you would do or change?

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Well, something I think would be really cool to have.

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Kind of all levels of play is just what we call sport fueling stations.

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In Alten at Lano, we could do this because people are bringing food, but we just want to

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have the right criteria so they know what to bring.

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But where we'd have appropriate hydration sources, appropriate snacks to have on court,

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pre-match options, appropriate post-match options.

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And I've written a couple of articles about this in Alten at News.

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So I would love, if I was queen of the court, the ability to get that message out to more

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people and have the right hydration sources and fuels available, court side.

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And it'd be kind of cool if we could have that sort of portable thing and we all kind of

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contributed and put in the right components.

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And we're learning along the way as we bring these things in as team members, but just everybody

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having the right tools so that nutrition is not a limiting factor, but can enhance our

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performance.

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No matter what age, no matter what level, just having all the right fuels and hydration sources

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to succeed.

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Bobby, racket sports specific food truck.

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I like it.

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We had a portable bloody Mary kit.

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Why can't we have a snack?

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I mean, go in the wrong way, Bobby.

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Go in the wrong way.

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Look, business to me.

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Why isn't this being sold in stores?

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I mean, you know, this is what you're here's your pre-match.

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Here's your during match, here's your post match.

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I mean, I love it.

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Well, let's talk later.

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Maybe we have a business idea.

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I think that an idea here.

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I think there's a simple fire and give it to the people.

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And that's the most crazy answer going to go at a junior tournament if we have something

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like this.

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Oh my god.

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And it just be devil dogs and glass of milk.

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I had pre-tournament matches.

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So I mean, this is just the whole idea is a great thing.

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So yeah, this is, evolution is a great thing.

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All right, we'll put it on the list.

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You swish to reality, that could be kind of cool.

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All right, it's why we like to ask the question is because if we can help bring the queen of

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tennis idea to reality, we will.

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So we will definitely follow up a page.

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Thank you so much for taking the time.

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Bobby is always, I appreciate it.

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Thank you.

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It was fun to be with you guys.

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