Sports Performance

Today, we round off all things immunity by looking at nutrients/supplements to improve our immune tolerance. Strengthening our ‘Immune tolerance’ aims to decrease the burden of illness and infection by giving us a greater capacity to endure microbes. Therefore, athletes become less sick and can continue their training programme/cycle without large absences or interruptions. When … Read more

Today, we cover proposed nutrients/supplements to improve immune resistance. Immune resistance can be considered as our immune weaponry that protects us by destroying viruses, pathogens and microbes. Next week, we’ll cover the proposed nutrients/supplements to improve immune tolerance, i.e. our ability to endure and control infection. In a recent review, Neil Walsh (2019) identified 7 … Read more

As you would have guessed, this week is entirely focussed on immune function. Before heading any further, I need to state that there’s no known food, strategy, dieting type or supplement that can fight COVID-19….so if you see anyone stating that there is, they are full of B.S. At the time of writing this, we … Read more

Today, we have a fresh off the press study looking into ‘Intermittent Energy Restriction (IER)’ and its ability to shred body fat, preserve muscle mass and resting metabolic rate (RMR) for more effective and efficient body transformations. Before heading any further, IER is essentially a form of calorie or carb cycling. You may have heard … Read more

Last week, we found that BCAA supplements don’t really offer too much value when it comes to recovering from exercise. This week, we look at the effect of an essential amino acid (EAA) + carbohydrate drink on muscle adaptations to exercise (muscle growth)…i.e. not recovery. It’s generally recommended that when you eat enough protein in … Read more

Today, we take another look at branch chain amino acid (BCAA) supplements and their ability to improve muscle recovery from training. Long story short, the title in the image gives quite a lot away. Short story long… It’s been well establish that a high(er) protein intake initiates muscle repair, remodelling and growth after weight training. … Read more

Today, we’re going beyond the muscle and deep diving our way into creatine supplementation and the brain. More specifically, how creatine supplementation could be beneficial for cognitive processing and traumatic brain injury. It’s very well established that athletes supplement with creatine to get a whole host of performance based benefits. However, an often overlooked area … Read more

Today’s post is entirely aimed to make you aware of the differences between males and females when it comes to nutrition programming. When it comes to the female athlete, there’s a pretty large list of factors that a nutrition coach needs to be aware of when it planning their nutrition. In quick fire fashion, here … Read more

Today, we look at one of the most powerful performance boosters… The Placebo effect. – Defined as someone having a positive outcome resulting from the belief that a beneficial treatment has been received, despite the treatment being inert. i.e. does fuck all. For example, if someone you trust tells you something is going to work, … Read more

You know the saying that ‘all healthy stuff tastes like shit’…well, today is no exception to that pattern of thinking. However, today’s food product in question tastes much sweeter than the bitter taste of exercise induced cramps. As previously discussed, cramps are associated with neuromuscular fatigue of the exercising muscle, and not necessarily due to … Read more