Can Social Media Be Used To Develop Positive Nutritional Behaviours? - David Dunne
The Progress Theory is back with another legend’s episode. This time we’re discussing behaviours around food with Performance nutritionist, researcher and co-founder of the Hexis-performance app, David Dunne.
In this episode, we discuss how David’s ideas around nutritional behaviour and habits and how Nutritionists were starting to embrace technology and social media more for the delivery of nutritional services led him to pursue research in Behavioral Science and nutrition. It was very clear that nutritional knowledge is not enough to improve the nutritional behaviours of athletes, and a more personal and context-specific approach is needed to influence behaviour and improving nutritional practices. Topics include:
• The rationale and direction of David’s research in nutrition and behavioural Science
• How nutritionists are open to new technologies when delivering nutritional services, but our understanding of how effective they can be is limited
• How behavioural approaches need to be person-specific, making group sessions challenging. In these scenarios, focus on what behaviours you can change.
• The negatives of social media for nutrition. How social media can provide a false narrative of what is normal and appropriate nutrition.
• How the Hexis performance app is an evidence-based app that aims to tailor your nutritional strategy to your characteristics and positive behaviours (check them out at @hexis_performance due out later this year).
• How getting practical experience is key for developing your skills as a nutritionist.
You can also contact David through his Instagram @thenutritionisr
#progresstheory
Mentioned in this episode:
The Science of Hybrid Training
It was originally thought that you could not effectively train for both strength and endurance at the same time because they required different adaptations which were not compatible with each other. It was claimed that ‘an interference effect’, blunted the adaptations for strength if you simultaneously trained for endurance. However, recent developments in sports which require both strength and endurance have really challenged this idea, with hybrid athletes producing impressive performances in both strength and endurance sports together. This had led scientists, coaches, and athletes to rethink what is humanly possible and suggests the interference effect is not as influential as originally thought. But what is a hybrid athlete? What is the ‘interference effect’? And how can we maximize our training to improve at the same time our strength and endurance performance? In this book, Dr Phil Price provides insight into the misconceptions surrounding strength and endurance training by distilling the past 50 years of research and drawing on the conversations he had with great scientists, coaches, and athletes on The Progress Theory podcast. This book is essential reading for hybrid athletes and coaches who are looking to understand the key training variables and their effect on the simultaneous development of strength and endurance performance.
