Former professional rugby player Jodie Ounsley, now best known as Fury on Gladiators, talks sports fuel, air fryers, and her mum’s ‘top-tier’ cooking.
So I’ve never been like, “Oh, let me get my cookbook out and see what sauces I can have on this.” It’s just been, “Right, that’s a carb, that’s a protein, that’s the veg and vitamins I need in that, whack it together and eat it before training.” When I played rugby, it was particularly strict.
[Fury, aka Jodie Ounsley, was a rugby union player for Exeter Chiefs women.]
My mum doesn’t do sport herself, but she helped my dad with his diet so she’s got a great idea of how to fuel athletes.
I remember the first training sessions we did, I was honestly blown away: he had these massive baking bowls filled with porridge.
