Tom Rowland Podcast Episode 753 is my conversation with nutrition expert Angelo Poli, who has worked with elite athletes including Aaron Rodgers. Angelo lays out the three pillars he builds around: good carbohydrates like sweet potatoes, rice, and oats; high-quality protein like grass-fed beef, wild-caught fish, and organic chicken; and healthy fats like avocados, nuts, seeds, and olive oil. We talk about why you cannot out-exercise a bad diet and where to start if you want to eat with purpose.
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Angelo Poli is a nutrition and fitness expert who has worked with high-level and professional athletes, including Aaron Rodgers. He focuses on practical, sustainable nutrition built around whole foods rather than gimmicks, and he is known for breaking complex eating principles down into simple, repeatable habits.
Angelo's three pillars are good carbohydrates, high-quality protein, and healthy fats. Good carbs include sweet potatoes, rice, and oats. High-quality protein includes grass-fed beef, wild-caught fish, and organic chicken. Healthy fats include avocados, nuts, seeds, and olive oil. He says getting these three categories right is the foundation of eating like an elite athlete.
Angelo points to a high-quality protein intake in the range of roughly 200 to 250 grams daily for the athletes he works with, sourced from foods like grass-fed beef, wild-caught fish, and organic chicken. He emphasizes the quality of the protein source, not just the total grams.
Angelo is direct that training cannot undo poor nutrition. He explains that what you eat drives recovery, performance, and body composition far more than extra exercise can compensate for, which is why he treats food as the foundation rather than an afterthought.
Angelo says the first step is cutting processed foods. Before optimizing macros or chasing perfect ratios, he tells people to remove the processed items from their diet, which alone moves most people dramatically closer to eating well.
Tom Rowland Podcast Episode 753 with Angelo Poli is available on Megaphone, Spotify, YouTube, and the Tom Rowland Podcast feed. The video version is embedded at the top of this page.
I wanted Angelo on because he works with athletes at the absolute top, including Aaron Rodgers, and yet the advice he gives is refreshingly simple. There is so much noise in the nutrition world that it is easy to feel paralyzed. Angelo cuts through it with three pillars anyone can understand and a first step anyone can take this week. I wanted listeners to hear that eating like an elite athlete is less complicated than the supplement industry wants them to believe.
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Angelo makes the case that no amount of training fixes poor nutrition, and he explains why food is the foundation everything else sits on. It reframes how you think about the gym. Hear it in the episode.
Angelo breaks down his framework of good carbohydrates, high-quality protein, and healthy fats, with specific foods in each category. It is the practical core of his whole approach. Listen to that section of the conversation.
Angelo connects food choices to recovery and performance, explaining how the athletes he works with eat to support hard training. Press play in the YouTube player above.
Before anyone optimizes anything, Angelo says to remove processed foods, and he explains why that one move does most of the work. Worth hearing in full.
Listen to the full conversation: Megaphone · Spotify · YouTube.
What I appreciate about Angelo is that he refuses to overcomplicate it. Three pillars, real food, and a clear first step. That is something a person can actually do.
The line that stuck with me is that you cannot out-exercise a bad diet. I have heard it before, but hearing it from a guy who feeds professional athletes lands differently.
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Angelo Poli · Aaron Rodgers · Tom Rowland (host)
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Angelo Poli is a nutrition and fitness expert who has worked with elite and professional athletes, including Aaron Rodgers. He is known for a practical, whole-foods approach built on three pillars: good carbohydrates, high-quality protein, and healthy fats. Rather than chasing trends, he focuses on sustainable habits, eliminating processed foods as a first step, and eating with purpose to support recovery and performance.
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