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

So at halftime, we really do need a top-up.

So it's whatever is the most convenient for the individual to get 30 or 40 grams of carbohydrate into people.

Now, that might be some of these sports gels.

It might be a bottle of the equivalent of, like Luke said, sport.

Other people like a little bit of food, whatever it be.

you know, some of the jellied sweets or some of the bar-type products.

Could even be like half a banana or something like that.

But we do need some carbohydrate in that period.

Doesn't need to be a huge amount.

We don't need a picnic.

You know, we don't need to get the...

the table out put a tablecloth on and start doing some fine dining but what we do need um is just a little hit of something now i quite like these little carbohydrate shots so you can get a little shot of it throw 40 grams of carbs in you you're done one of the problems is when you try and do it in a sports drink and miss again is spending a lot of time in a um in a changing room

The lads will go back out, and I always hang around in the changing room when you go back out to just observe, and the amount of half-drunk bottles of, say, like, Powerade or what you said, because you want to drink to thirst at halftime.

If you don't drink that bottle, you've not had all the carbohydrate.

So what I like to do is use, like, a gel or a shot to get your carbohydrate and then drink water.

Because the last thing you want to do is force liquid down you if you don't feel like it, and then it's sitting heavy on you.

Incredibly.

So what I always do is bring questions back from the front line back to my laboratory.

So we were being asked a lot a few years ago really about do we really need this one-day carbohydrate load because players weren't doing it.

So my favorite study I've ever done, and I wouldn't have the guts to do this again, I used Witness Vikings rubber league team for this.

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