Dele Alli has hired a personal nutritionist and taken up yoga in a bid to cure his frustrating injury problems.
The Tottenham midfielder is now heavily scrutinising the food he eats as he looks to regain full fitness after suffering four hamstring injuries in the last 18 months.
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The upper body is just a visual gauge, it appears to me he has dropped 4-5kg upper body bulk, but that's just a guess from what I saw in 2018 when he was getting too big in chest size.
From that article:
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The 23-year-old is now on a high protein, low sugar diet, while he is undertaking regular yoga sessions to increase his muscular mobility. "
That is fine, on the face of it, but that is likely a more acidic diet (protein is acid forming), so if not very nuanced you need much higher supplemental minerals (which come bound to sugars in dietary terms, chiefly Sucrose chains... hence the catch22 in many situations with these Paleo diets, especially if too meat heavy rather than lean(er) = chicken, salmon, plant based, and in % terms, plus the fats in the meats are very hard to cycle for top athletes and a minefield for even nutritionists to understand and put aside their own dietary biases).
Andy Murray = Quintessential wrong version of a Paleo diet
Novak Djokovic = Quintessential right version of a Paleo diet
Plus you need your carbs for readily combustible energy, you look at the tour de france guys, tennis players, they are eating mountains of Rice/Quinoa, not high protein. So it very much depends on who the nutritionist is, and, how they align it to match days and rest days, high intensity training days should be lower protein higher carbs the day before and during, rest days higher protein lower carbs, but still heavily swayed towards vegetables/fruit being the central core 50-75% of the meal plan (dropping lower on performance days, but increasing Quinoa or Rice and fruits for example, dropping meat/plant protein from 25% to 15% type range IMO).
Every day = masses of Magnesium and good amounts of Calcium (both key to muscle relaxation and repair).
Not saying the nutritionist has it wrong, but there is a good chance they are swayed more towards the Murray Paleo, than Djokovic, especially if Dele's natural bias is a high meat diet. The fat profile is also crucial.
(hopefully Murray is now on the right track, just using him as the example, as Vs Djokovic is a good side to side of two who were neck and neck as Juniors, both got to the top, but one has found a diet which keeps him there, the other traded 4-5 years of his career for power in the shorter term it seems).
If Dele has a weak metabolic function he may need high MSM (and host of other supps to assist his weaker biological structures), this could be a key in his longer term recovery (to whatever level his body will now allow). If the Nutritionist has him on VitC it must be buffered, preferably Liposomal Sodium/Potassium Ascorbate so buffered and encapsulated to make it fat soluble, he can afford the best...
Anyway, good to see he is doing all he can, but as we can see, why did it take until late 2019 for any of our squad to take up Yoga, or other recovery patterns, when all we ever heard from Poch was 'Intensity, Bringing It In Training, Work Hard'. It highlights they were all left to their own recovery devices far too much IMO.
I know shit all though, but could see this coming a mile off, as you and a few others know.
