Catalyst Dietitian - David Bryant

Catalyst Dietitian - David Bryant Advanced Sports Dietitian :)
PARATRIATHLETE on track for TOKYO2021 SERVICES AVAILABLE:

WEIGHT LOSS
Practical and achievable meal plans. Healthy recipes.

COVID19: ONLINE Nutrition Plans & Support Available
Providing practical nutrition plans and dietary advice that is individually tailored to your lifestyle and training demands. CORPORATE HEALTH AND NUTRITION
Health and nutrition review of Employees and work environment. SEMINARS FOR SPORTING CLUBS AND INTEREST GROUPS
Enlightening presentations specific to each sport

SPORTS NUTRITION
Race specific nutrition plans and advice

CHILDHOOD NUTRITION
Applying the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating Guidelines

SKIN-FOLD AND BODY COMPOSITION ASSESSMENT
Regular assessments conducted to track progress

CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT
Dietary advice and assistance in managing a particular disease through adequate nutrition

Slightly more not less fuel…. Recovery nutrition summed up during peak training weeks pre/during/post training 🏊 🚴‍♂️ 🏃 ...
08/02/2026

Slightly more not less fuel…. Recovery nutrition summed up during peak training weeks pre/during/post training 🏊 🚴‍♂️ 🏃 🏋🏻‍♂️⛽️

Sundy long run, 24km with slightly more cushioning as well, in the Glycerin Max to take the load off the legs 🦵 👟

Slightly more fuel too, sure you could fast for an easy long run, but it’ll compromise recovery.
More fuel is a game changer for the recovery benefits just as much as the performance benefits 💪🏻

Pre run, toasted cheese 🧀 sanga 🥪 , 3 x cold brews ☕️ ( carbs & caffeine 🚀)

During run, 3x gels, 90g 💦

Post run, Protein shake with milk 🥛, iced latte 🧊, bday 🎂, 30g protein milk 🐄, 2x chicken wraps 🫔

= being more useful around the 🏡 for the rest of the day. If you’re on the couch 🛋️ all arvo, you’re under fueling 🫠

Add the layers to your training weeks fueling and equipment wise!

Rice cakes aren’t pre, or post ride fuel🫣Low fibre cereal (coco pops or rice bubbles) are actually really easy to digest...
17/01/2026

Rice cakes aren’t pre, or post ride fuel🫣

Low fibre cereal (coco pops or rice bubbles) are actually really easy to digest, hydrating and fortified 🥣

Just a banana won’t get you very far on a long ride.
Speaking of which, a half eaten one in the back pocket should be banned 🍌

One rule, never come home HANGRY, slightly more not less ✌️

Water for super easy aerobic rides 💦

Your mid week shorter rides still need fuel if they have intensity 😱

Concentrated sports drink & choccy bars ie Fry’s Turkish Delight, is any easy & cheap way to bump your carbohydrate intake up per hour during hard or long rides 🍫

Want to improve your recovery? Fuel more on the bike not just off it 💪🏻

Coffee before the ride not just after to boost performance ☕️

You are probably cramping due to the exercise intensity & carbohydrate inadequacy (prob not electrolytes) 😅

A low alcohol beer will assist with rehydration 🍺

Where can I get a one piece skin suit & aero socks to fit in with the local bunch rides? 😉 🤵🏼

📸 during last weeks 🇦🇺 TT Champs 🫶🏻

Para TT Nationals on my doorstep through Perry Lakes 🚴‍♂️ The 🥂 Race Nutrition Report 👨🏼‍🍳 Loved this race last year, ...
09/01/2026

Para TT Nationals on my doorstep through Perry Lakes 🚴‍♂️

The 🥂 Race Nutrition Report 👨🏼‍🍳

Loved this race last year, flying through Perry Lakes and Up Oceanic dve where I do all my training, whilst having the luxury of rolling out from straight to the start line 🏎️

5am, 20min shakeout jog 🏃…. because triathlon 😆

6am, 2cups coco pops 🥣 with protein shake poured over. 2 x slices of ciabatta 🍞 with 2 poached eggs 🍳 Washed down with a coupla cold brews ☕️

830am, 3mini hot cross buns 🥯

930am, iced long black ☕️

10am, longest 20mins of my life 😮‍💨 warming up on the trainer, what year is it? 🫠

10:20am, slushie 🧊 with 60g of carbohydrates to bring the core body temp down 🥶

10:40am, Fry’s Turkish Delight 55g bar 🍫 , 40g hit of carbs pre battle 🫡

10:57am, lift off 🚀

🤓 Race Stats, 29km, 41.5km/hr av, 318w ave, 334w normalized, 90rpm cadence 💣

Bee sting 🐝 in the nether region on lap 2, but lucky I’m resilient 💪🏻

A touch off power and time wise than last year, but a real good stepping stone into the season ahead.

Super special to have the team car 🚙 lead by Cycling Coach Matt Howlett on race radio 📻 directing my lines and keeping me honest, as well as my long time coach on board too.

So cool to see the WAIS village of athletes and support staff out on course 🏕️

Oh so special to see the local Floreat community & my family and friends cheering me on throughout the loop 🔁

Absolutely love how I can showcase and normalize elite parasport to my kids and now their friends, who thought it was pretty cool, “Go Daddy David, Go Daddy David” (sound on 🥹)

West is Best 🦢 💛🤍🖤

👨🏼‍🍳 The race nutrition report, 9th Place at Paratriathlon World Championships PTS5 🥂 It’s never “Just a sprint Tri”, ...
23/10/2025

👨🏼‍🍳 The race nutrition report, 9th Place at Paratriathlon World Championships PTS5 🥂

It’s never “Just a sprint Tri”,
big intensities = big carbohydrate demands 🔥

630am, cold brew ☕️

7am, push 4 slices of white toast with jam and peanut butter down 😮‍💨 washed down with another cold brew 🍞

830am, 2x LCM Treatz Bars as a top up🍚

930am, post swim warmup 🏊🏻‍♂️ , 55g Fry’s Turkish Delight as one last carbohydrate hit 🍫

10am 🚀 🏊🏻‍♂️ 🚴 🏃

Onthebike 🚲 small sips of concentrated 💦

Offthebike 🏃, wet the mouth at aid stations 🚿

Post race 🥹 750ml Filmjolk drink 🥛, (2100kJ, 25g Protein, 30g Protein, 1000mg Calcium) ✅

Lunch 🍽️ A beer 🍺 and fish n chippies 🎣 of course!
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“Comparison is the thief of Joy”.9th place at the World 🌎 Championships on the Weekend in Wollongong.What an honour to b...
23/10/2025

“Comparison is the thief of Joy”.

9th place at the World 🌎 Championships on the Weekend in Wollongong.

What an honour to be in my forever #19 🇦🇺 Paratriathlon trisuit, in front of an electric home crowd.

Pre race, if I knew I’d swim 10:30 (750m), ride 322w normalized power and run 3:30km pace offthebike , I’d be relatively happy.

But the 9th place part stings a bit. Yet at the same time it’s an honour to be racing in the PTS5 category in such an elite and tight field of the world’s best paratriathletes.

Put me just 80seconds or 400m down the road and all of a sudden I am in the top 5, how hard could it be in 2026?

What has and will continue to bring me joy though is my village 🏕️ back home 🏡.
My daily training environment that I have around me thanks to my team at and .

The squad we’ve had the past few months with athletes from all over the globe has been like one big family and I am even more grateful that my family have been there to enjoy and support my journey along the way.

Pretty cool that my kids think that the Paratriathlon is always the showcase event of World Triathlon.

It s a choice, not a sacrifice to do what I do racing around the world for Australia and I can’t wait to get going again in 2026.

Means a lot 🙏🏻
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💣 Tasman Safety and Training

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25/08/2025

😱 What athletes think is the key to daily fuelling 🔬

Clean eating
Restricted eating
Never deviating from an eating routine or plan
Forbidding certain foods
AI food apps
Food tracking apps
Macro goals
Meal prepping
Skinfolds
A food first only approach
Garmin’s estimated energy output
No alcohol
Saying no to dessert
Food out of necessity

🧘‍♀️ What is actually the key to stress free, daily fuelling and success ✅

Being intentional with eating

Being proactive with eating

Having a routine that is flexible with daily environment and training demands

Being aware of daily energy needs but not bound by them

Listening to hunger cues

Not listening to hunger cues (ie eating for performance/recovery even when there’s no appetite)

Slightly more on big days

Slightly less on easier days

Low (but not no) alcohol intake

Making the effort to have dessert on big training days

Food out of necessity but also for enjoyment and socializing

Seeing how food can help not hinder your day

A food first approach BUT not always food only (eg utilizing processed foods for convenience & practicality)

Low cadence Reabolds Reps 🧗🏼‍♀️ ⛰️

23/08/2025

“Think I was 10 years old when I swam my first 32sec 50m 🏊 ” 🐎
“I was 36 years old 🤣” 🫏

Super Satdy KGB long ride 🚴‍♂️ into swim set 🏊

⛽️ A Big fuel intake on the bike giving me the ability to ride strong & importantly backup the swim session after 💪🏻

20/08/2025

🏊 Swimmers (pool, OWS and triathletes), would have to be one of the most under-fuelled cohorts I see. 😱

Long 1-2 hour sessions in the pool, with repeated high intensity efforts =
a big carbohydrate demand.

Compound this with the fact that another session is usually in just 8-24hrs time, finishing a session depleted is also severely compromising recovery and adaptation.

Over the past couple of years my athletes and myself even, have found huge benefits in fuelling during key swims (not just ride & runs!).

Not only from a performance and perception of effort perspective, but also finishing a session less depleted (always avoid this).

🥉 Current 10km World Championship Bronze Medalist and Paris Paralympian .lee__ has also had this experience during our gym chats 🏋🏻‍♂️ over the past year or so:

“Fuelling during more intense sessions has helped dramatically. To finish a training session stronger from a performance perspective but to also leave the pool not feeling completely dead which means I can back up the next session better.”

Here’s, yours truly knocking back 40g of carbohydrates (thanks ) before a key 2-3km threshold session, washed down with a bottle of sports drink containing 80g of fuel in the bottle to swig during the set.

✅ Better swim times.
✅ Lower perception of effort.
✅ Happier mood.
✅ Better recovery.

11/08/2025

“A rising tide lifts all boats.” 🛥️
One thing I greatly value about Inside WAIS is how both Olympic and Paralympic athletes train, fuel & recover as one collectively in the daily training environment.
🏊 Take for example Saturday, where I’m ‘pacing’ Olympic Breaststroker 🇦🇺 to 8x50m in 32/33 secs 😉😅😂. Forever grateful for the opportunities parasport has provided 🙏🏻
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🍁 3rd & 6th place in Magog Para World Cup and Montreal World Series respectively 🇨🇦 🐿️ A trip I deliberated over in ligh...
29/07/2025

🍁 3rd & 6th place in Magog Para World Cup and Montreal World Series respectively 🇨🇦

🐿️ A trip I deliberated over in light of an injury interrupted prep, but so glad my team and family made it happen and got me to the start line for valuable race experience 🦌

World champs in 🇦🇺 this year in October, bring on the prep back 🏡 home with Elotik Pro Triathlon , Inside WAIS & AusTriathlon

15/07/2025

“Stay in the game.
Trust the process.
You never know what might happen.”

Wowee it’s been an up & down few months of injuries & niggles.
So good to be back racing thanks to an amazing team, support network and my family back home.

Thrived being in the thick of the action from the gun thanks to a swim finally coming together in Magog 🇨🇦.
Round 2 this weekend in Montreal for the Para World Series race on the track 🏎️.
🙏🏻 Inside WAIS , Elotik Pro Triathlon , AusTriathlon , Brooks Running , Stormflower Vineyard 🍾

🚢 “A ship is safe in the harbour but that’s not what a ship is for”. 🇯🇵 ⚔️ 7th place at Yokahama Para World Series race....
19/05/2025

🚢 “A ship is safe in the harbour but that’s not what a ship is for”. 🇯🇵

⚔️ 7th place at Yokahama Para World Series race.
Have had a bumpy month of sickness & injury, but always learnings to be had from toeing the start line on the world stage representing 🇦🇺.

The race showed glimpses of things to come for the season ahead all things considered & oh so grateful my team got me to the start line & to have my family there for the journey across the week 🍣

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👨‍⚕️ thanks for your expertise 🙏🏻 🦴

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