Graeme Close

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The Offload · British and Irish Lions Head of Performance Graeme Close – THE DRESSING ROOM: Unlocked | The Offload · 5 May 2026 podcast

The day after I got that information, the entire recovery strategy for England Rugby changed.

So I was working at England Rugby at the time and we had that data and immediately I changed our post-game recovery.

Yeah, well, you've probably got two things going on.

You've got that, exactly what you said, where you've got this still burning.

But the second thing is we know that muscle repair is an energy-consuming process.

So I don't need to tell you that the day after a game, your body's going through some muscle repair.

We're feeling sore, aren't we?

We're feeling stiff.

We don't move as well as we did the day before a game.

That is a calorie-consuming process.

And what I found a lot of players were doing was the day after a game is a day when we cut the calories down because that's often a rest day and particularly cut the carbohydrate down.

And what we found was by actually having a much better refuel day the day after, keeping the carbs medium to high, not stupid to high, but medium, ramp the protein right up, we were finding that people were recovering better.

And that makes sense because if the body is crying out for energy for it to repair that muscle, then feed it.

Yeah, well, I use a picture from, I could do the same for the British and Irish Lions picture, but I use one of England rugby before the, a team picture before we went to the last World Cup.

And I think it was 32 players and 31 staff.

A lot of us grew up with the aspiration of doing what you've done, which is to play for our country, you know, play for Ireland, play for the Lions, etc.

There's a very few number of people who can do that.

But our chances of working in that industry and helping people like you to get the most out of a career, which is just as rewarding...

They've never been more.

And like you say, that's everything from logistics, psychology, performance analysis, strength and conditioning, nutrition.

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