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Habits: We are now halfway through the year, can you look back over the past six months and appreciate the changes made? Not that we have to have achieved certain goals by an exact timeline, but it can be a useful milestone in order for you to reflect on how...
“Why eating breakfast will help you lose weight” or “why skipping breakfast may not be bad for you after all” are just two contrasting headlines from a long list that tend to appear on our social media feeds or in tabloids every week. So, of course, it’s impossible...
The answer? Neither! During my presentation about creating balanced meals, I was asked “why do you keep mentioning bread, isn’t it bad for you?”, which made me realise how foods still have this label as either being bad for you or good for you. I replied: “Bread is...
Following on with caffeine, as mentioned it is a stimulant that has been shown to support enhanced performance through effects such as faster reaction times and more sustained high-intensity performance. Typically, effective doses are in the 3-6mg/kg body weight...
Fuelling before, during and after a performance is what will enable you to perform and recover optimally. Your testing/game day nutrition will differ from your usual nutrition plan as your focus shifts to the here and now and what needs to be done to ensure you’re...
This week is salt awareness week! So, I thought I would share some ideas on how to reduce salt in the diet! Salt is required for our bodies to function, but currently, we are eating far more than required. Therefore, increasing our risk of developing high blood...
One common nutrition goal for people is trying to improve the quality of food they’re eating. Be it creating more variety in the diet or having more nutritious snacks or fueling for performance. But, is eating healthier really that much more expensive? In reality,...
“There can be no progress, no achievement, without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices.” -James Allen When it comes to making changes in any aspect of life, for it to work we must sacrifice something. For example,...
When fuelling for a workout, what works for one person may not necessarily work for another. So, there is no one size fits all, but there is guidance that you can follow to try and implement the best nutrition strategy to suit you! Ultimately it comes down to your...
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