01 - Tart Cherries & BeetRoot Juice for Recovery. Fact or Fiction? - Dr. Tom Clifford

Summary: Dr. Tom Clifford is a world leading researcher in the world of tart cherry juice and beetroot juice when it comes to athletic recovery. Dr. Clifford has a bachelor's in sports and exercise science and a master's in sports performance. He also has a doctorate and exercise, health, nutrition. He's worked with several elite sports teams, including the Newcastle Falcons rugby team. Our conversation today sheds some light on the truths, the myths, and the theories behind tart cherry juice and beetroot juice when it comes to athletic performance and recovery.
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Dr. Tom Clifford's Information
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TomClifford7 (https://twitter.com/TomClifford7)
Email: [email protected]
University Profile: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ssehs/staff/tom-clifford/ (https://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ssehs/staff/tom-clifford/)
Jase Kraft's Information:
Instagram: https://instagram.com/jaecheese (https://instagram.com/jaecheese)
Website: https://scienceofsportsrecovery.com (https://scienceofsportsrecovery.com)
Email: [email protected]
Jase Kraft: [00:00:00] Today's guest is the world's leading researcher in the world of tart cherry juice and beetroot juice when it comes to athletic recovery. Tom has a bachelor's in sports and exercise science and a master's in sports performance. He also has a doctorate and exercise, health, nutrition. He's worked with several elite sports teams, including the Newcastle Falcons rugby team. Our conversation today sheds some light on the truths, the myths, and the theories behind tart cherry juice and beetroot juice when it comes to athletic performance and recovery.

Jase Kraft: [00:00:36] Let's get into.

Jase Kraft: [00:00:41] You're listening to the Science of Sports Recovery podcast. Each week, we explore how to recover more efficiently from training so you can work out harder and realize your full potential. This is the Science of Sports Recovery podcast.

Jase Kraft: [00:01:10] Hey, Tom, it's great to have you on the show.

Tom Clifford: [00:01:13] Hi, Jase. So nice to see you.

Jase Kraft: [00:01:16] So there's a brief intro on your background and stuff, but we just run down your education. You have a bachelor's degree in sport and exercise science, then a master's degree and sport performance from the University of Portsmouth. And if I'm correct in saying you also were a boxer and a football, is that American football? Is that soccer that you playing at the University of Brighton.

Tom Clifford: [00:01:47] Oh, wow, where have you dug this out from, so, Yes, so,

Tom Clifford: [00:01:53] In my undergraduate in sport science, I've always been football, soccer. So, you know, Americans soccer. That was always my main sport. I did try and take up boxing. I really enjoyed it. It wasn't very good.

Tom Clifford: [00:02:08] It's really good fun.

Tom Clifford: [00:02:10] But that was, you know, I stuck mainly to soccer when I realized that boxing.

Jase Kraft: [00:02:15] Yeah, sweet, do play all of three or four years that you were there.

Tom Clifford: [00:02:20] Yeah. So we did four years.

Tom Clifford: [00:02:21] So the first year I still played for my home club, so I used to travel back then I decided to play for the university for the second.

Jase Kraft: [00:02:30] Cool, cool, after university, did you, did you play any more club or do you currently do the any of that kind of stuff now.

Tom Clifford: [00:02:40] Yeah. So not so much.

Tom Clifford: [00:02:41] So I carried on playing for a few more years and then I stopped, I started to move around a lot for work and I decided to bring back kind of my Saturday afternoons and my Tuesday. It was the evenings instead of training. So I just stopped playing over there and, you know, kind of local five aside, things like that.

Tom Clifford: [00:03:01] And now now I'm a runner, a very, very distinctly average runner...