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David Dunne, sports scientist, world tour nutritionist, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Dunne lands on race weight. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
WHO IS DAVID DUNNE?
David Dunne is the performance nutritionist behind Hexis, the personalised sports-nutrition platform used by World Tour cyclists, Premier League clubs, NBA franchises, Super League sides, and Ryder Cup Team Europe. With a PhD in behaviour change, design thinking, and technology innovation in sports nutrition, and IOC alumnus credentials, he sits at the intersection of academic research and practical application. His work matters because he turned periodised nutrition — matching carb intake to training load day by day — from a coaching idea into a measurable system used by hundreds of elite athletes and tens of thousands of amateurs.
DUNNE ON RACE WEIGHT
Dunne’s key positions on race weight.
- Carbohydrate periodisation matches daily intake to training load — it is not low-carb, it is right-carb.
- Energy availability is the unsung lever for body-composition change and long-term training durability.
- Fuelling around training matters more than total daily macro targets — the timing changes the adaptation.
- Behaviour change in nutrition is a design problem — make the right thing easy and the wrong thing inconvenient.
- Personalised plans outperform generic ones at every level, but only if they are actually used — adherence is the limiting factor.
IN DUNNE’S OWN WORDS
Verbatim from David Dunne’s appearances on the podcast.
“Some people are doing 5 hours at an average power of over 300 watts. That amount of power, if we look at that from a kilojoule perspective and then we start to convert that into what the energy cost from a calorie perspective is for individual riders is just so different to what a rider at home can sustain where that absolute energy expenditure is just going to be less.”
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Episodes where David Dunne covers race weight and related ground.
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What does David Dunne say about race weight?
David Dunne, sports scientist, world tour nutritionist, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Dunne lands on race weight. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
What is Dunne's main point on race weight?
Carbohydrate periodisation matches daily intake to training load — it is not low-carb, it is right-carb.
Which Roadman Cycling Podcast episodes cover David Dunne on race weight?
Dunne discusses race weight in this episode: "World Tour Nutritionist - “We Got Weight Loss Wrong”".
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