If you follow fighting sports, you're probably already aware of George Lockhart's work. He's the nutritionist and chef who controls weight cuts for UFC stars like Conor McGregor and Daniel Cormier, and has managed the nutritional needs of boxers, such as two-weight world champion, Badou Jack. For the past few months though, Lockhart has been working with a new client: 6ft9, self-styled "fat man", Tyson "The Gypsy King" Fury.
Tyson is like a Lamborghini and if you owned a Lamborghini you wouldnt put shit fuel in it
Using only the freshest produce, for the past seven weeks Lockhart has been making five trips a day to a local farmers market in order to fetch enough food to satisfy Fury's 4,500 calories a day need. He has, of course, also been on washing up duties after each of Fury's five daily meals.
With all that food, Lockhart predicts Fury will come into his rematch with Wilder "a lot heavier than he usually is", according to Lockhart, but he will also be "a lot leaner too".
Tyson is like a Lamborghini and if you owned a Lamborghini you wouldnt put shit fuel in it," says Lockhart. "Its about recovery. Tyson can burn 1,500 calories in 45 minutes so we are constantly replenishing. That means its not just the quantity of the workouts that has increased but the quality too.
Fury's meals are delivered with military precision, and you'd expect nothing less from a nutritionist who began his working life as a US Marine who did a tour of duty in Iraq where his four-man team helped apprehend 200 suspected insurgents. That was, of course, prior to Lockhart turning his hand to becoming a MMA fighter himself, before he eventually became nutritionist and chef to some of the world's most dangerous fighters.
Speaking to The Athletic, Lockhart revealed the type of daily diet he serves to Fury and his three brothers.
8am, breakfast: [Fury's day] starts off with fruit and Greek yogurt. He loves that. And he feels strong with that. He has that every morning. Obviously, we switch it up, but we have tons of berries so you get a lot of antioxidants.
Pre-workout shake: The pre-workout will basically, depending what time of the day it is, be beta alanine. Hell get 4,000 milligrams of beta-alanine. Well give them like 200 milligrams of caffeine and those are gonna be the basics. The base for pre-workout.
During-workout shake: Hell have BCAAs with a little bit of creatine and sugar.
Post-workout shake: Hell get dextrose in a supplement form, a type of fruit for fructose. Then well add a whey protein isolate for his post. An hour after that shake, he eats his meal.
11am, lunch: Tyson likes spicy food, which blows my freaking mind because being an Englishman, its usually not the case. I cooked him up some shit because Im half Mexican that put my tongue on fire and hes cool with it. He gets a curry almost every single day for inflammation. There are a million different curries out there, so Im constantly coming up with new curries.
2pm, second lunch: He has to have at least one serving of seafood every single day. And then I try and do one red meat or chicken. So every meal he gets different meats, youll get a huge variety of foods. I try to get different meats every single meal. A chicken, a fish or last night he had sirloin steak.
Furys works out again in the afternoon and will be fuelled by more pre, during and post-workout shakes.
6pm, dinner: Fury will have something like chicken vindaloo with turmeric for its anti-inflammatory properties, but this meal will be crafted around whatever meat Fury hasn't had earlier in the day.
9pm, second dinner: Hell have his power balls, his energy balls. Its basically almond butter, oatmeal, coconut, honey, pecans and dark chocolate chips all rolled into balls. A couple of those before he goes to bed.
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