Irish Olympic hopefuls Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan have revealed that the country's elite amateur boxers receive no specialised diet advice to help them make weight.
Boxers must weigh-in each morning that they fight at the Rio games and Barnes in particular finds it a struggle to make his 49kg light-flyweight limit.
Though the Holy Family clubman accepts that he doesn't make it easy on himself due to his diet, he claims that is because he has never received any training on the subject.
"The problem is, I never had any real help or advice on how to make weight properly," the double Olympic bronze-medallist Barnes told 2fm's Game On.
"The diet I'm on, we get food in the stadium, but I'd rather someone get me meals up that I would eat.
"At the minute we're living in a hotel so you can't just cook something up"
"The strength and conditioning coach we have is good but there's one high-performance conditioning coach for 46 boxers. We need more coaches."
His fellow Belfast native, World bantamweight champion Conlan added: "You're doing your own diet. They say you're a man, you have to do it yourself.
"They have people there but we don't get as much help as we should."
"We have an strength and condition coach but we don't have a dietitian. We're not educated enough in it.
"You have no one when you're at home. When you're down in Dublin it's all right but at the minute we're living in a hotel so you can't just cook something up.
"You have to go and get the food which is supplied to you, which isn't what you should be eating."
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