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I think it’s safe to say that sleep quality and quantity is a fundamental performance tool that is greatly under-utilised by athletes. It’s been very well established that sleep is vital for both brain and body and plays a large role in mental and physical well-being. Sleep loss impairs cognition, learning and memory retention, disruption of growth

As mentioned on previous #D2EW episodes, the depletion of carbohydrate stores within the muscle is one of the main factors than causes fatigue in athletes. When muscle glycogen (stored form of carbs) hits a critical level of depletion, the muscles contractibility and ability to produce force is impaired – this is one of the main

It’s been reported that approximately one third of people who lose weight on a diet will regain more weight than they originally lost. Therefore, it’s been highlighted that we don’t necessarily have a weight loss problem; we have a weight maintenance problem. In the overweight and obese, this is largely down to the obesogenic environment,

Today, we examine a supplement that not many of you would have come across… Sodium Citrate. Long story short, it’s very similar to Sodium Bicarbonate (SB) but without the nasty gastrointestinal issues (kinda). SB is an extracellular buffer (outside of the muscle) that serves as an ‘alkalizing agent’ to improve performance during intermittent type exercise

30-50% of endurance athletes experience gastrointestinal issues whilst training and competing. This can lead to underperformance and in some cases, the inability to complete an event or training session. Previous #D2EW episodes have covered how to mitigate gut issues on race day – such as training the gut prior and following appropriate fuelling strategies during. But are

It’s been incredibly well documented that a fat loss phases involve a calorie restriction – This is fat loss 101, simply consume fewer calories than you expend. Albeit sometimes isn’t so simple. Actually, most of the time… However, once your fat loss phase has finished and you’re at the desired bodyweight or body composition that