The Determined Society with Shawn French
Training High-Performance Athletes with Giovanna Giancola | The Omni Performance Institute
Mon, 13 Jan 2025
Welcome to another episode of The Determined Society Podcast! Join us as we dive into an inspiring interview with Giovanna Giancola at the Omni Performance Institute. Discover insider fitness tips, athlete nutrition secrets, and the transformative power of sport-specific training. Don't miss out on how top athletes achieve their dreams with the right guidance. Like, comment, and subscribe if you enjoy the content! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the best protein sources for athletes?
Everybody wants more protein, but I personally hate the core power protein drinks and stuff.
There's definitely cleaner protein sources for sure. Not slamming you guys, sorry. But it's the truth, right?
Sorry.
Oops.
I don't like those.
Yeah, she doesn't like this. She can have a preference, damn it.
A lot of people think the less they eat, the more fat they'll lose and stuff, but that's not the case.
Yeah, their body's actually eating away the muscle and keeping the fat.
Right.
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Chapter 2: How can athletes avoid being 'skinny fat'?
No, no, no. I can do a sauna.
It's okay.
It's fine. I have more weight to lose.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly. So look, everything looks great. It's good to see you. Um, walk, walk the audience through that doesn't know about the performance Institute, just not here in this building, but also the gym next door. Like walk everybody through what, what's going on here at the Omni.
Okay, well, we had a vision for the entire complex, actually, and we wanted to be a whole wellness village. And we thought the first step would be to open up a fitness center. So right now we have some of the best equipment and the most equipment in all of southwest Florida.
And we're here to not only help you age better, but also help high school athletes, grade school athletes work and hopefully move on to get scholarships or play professional. I just found that. Three people that attend the classes here got selected to Division I schools on scholarships.
Let's talk about that real quick.
There's one girl got accepted into the University of Maryland.
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Chapter 3: What is the vision behind the Omni Performance Institute?
The cheese, yeah, but the gorditas are good too.
The cheese quesadillas.
I feel like Taco Bell should throw some money for this, for advertising for them.
I don't even care. Just like send me some hot sauce or something.
She likes the fire sauce guys.
I went there on Valentine's day. Like I am a big Taco Bell person.
Okay. That's cool. That's cool. No, I mean, Taco Bell is great, but like, and that's the other thing too, right? You don't need to be a hundred percent on a hundred percent of the time. Right. You're allowed to take these small little breaks as long as you get back on the horse. Cause I think the most important thing for an athlete is when they start going off the rails too much, right?
Even if they're, even if they're lean, you cannot tell me that an athlete is performing peak levels eating, eating Chick-fil-A or Taco Bell consistently, even though they look good aesthetically, they are not performing like they would if they were eating a good nutritional plan.
Yes. But there are those are good. Two good ones, Chick-fil-A and Taco Bell, because there's other options there where if you're running around and you can't get even to your refrigerator.
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Chapter 4: How are athletes achieving scholarships through training?
I guess. My friend said she has a farm. Okay. She says you just like put them in a dog crate since this is all going under construction.
Yeah.
And then you just rehome them to a pond.
Interesting. You want to know what I saw today? What? I saw something crazy. So I was in Publix. That's the village I was getting my stuff. And I see this big old pole at the entrance and this weird little net, this black net. It looked like it was like the world's biggest hair net. Okay. But on the other side, there was another pole. I'm like, what is going on in here? What are you guys doing?
Like, there's a bird in here. We're trying to catch it. Oh my God. I'm like, well, once you catch it, what are you going to do with it? And then she's like, well, we're going to take it outside. I'm like, well, how do you get it out of the net? I mean, the net was like almost 90 feet long. It was wild. I don't know. You started talking about birds. So I felt it was appropriate.
They're my new friends.
So yeah, they keep you company all the time.
Right. That's cool.
They probably have a name for you, too.
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