Joe Matthews is an applied Performance Nutritionist who has supported combat athletes, as well as team sport athletes in both male and female environments working in professional women's football as well as Premiership Academy Rugby Union settings. Joe is currently working on his PhD, undertaking his research at Nottingham Trent University and has research & applied interests in metabolic health, muscle, performance nutrition, injury rehab & injury prevention.
I really enjoyed this conversation with Joe. We discussed many topics such as how you should approach the initial conversation as a nutritionist when working with a combat sport athlete, how important history taking is and how that information guides Joe's decision making around nutrition strategy. We chatted around the similarities and differences in professional environments and how your delivery will have to be versatile enough to work in multiple settings as a consultant practitioner.
Joe and I also discussed the use of skinfolds as a measure within professional sport - particularly within team environments, and how the facility (and other nuanced elements) play an important role in how you capture data, as well as how the data is used and what it is used for; a primary consideration for any practitioner.
I hope you enjoy this conversation, and if you think of any questions you'd like to ask Joe following listening to the episode you can send these to [email protected].
Joe will be joining us on Instagram for a live Q&A on Wednesday 8th February 7 - 7.45pm on The PINN Podcast Instagram page - @thepinnpodcast.
See you there!

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