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Today is a brief, yet super important intro into RED-S. RED-S stands for Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport and is the impairment of many key physiological functions caused by energy deficiency. Energy deficiency is also coined as Low Energy availability (LEA), which is a mismatch between energy intake (food consumption/portion sizes) and energy expenditure via

For our Rugby World Cup special edition, we’re looking at the extra calorie demand playing puts on our body. Long story short; Collision induced muscle damage (CIMD) increases your total daily energy expenditure. This would suggest that the more contact you experience in a game, the greater the muscle breakdown and the greater need for

Today, we’re looking at the effect of hard training on your appetite. On paper, this doesn’t sound a problem, but in reality, it is. Now, I’m not talking about your 45 minute gym session, I’m talking about hard, intensive training camps or prolonged period of work such as preseason training. If you combine high energy

[The Great North Run edition] Today, we’re doing a deep dive into a key strategy that will guarantee you a better race time this Sunday. And needless to say, thank fuck science is here to help us out. Hansen and colleagues (2014) recruited runners competing in the 2013 Copenhagen marathon – Once they were on

Today, we’re doing a deep dive into protein and maximising gains. Specifically, whether we should focus our efforts on the timing and distribution of our protein meals to enhance muscle growth. When it comes to maximising the anabolic response from training, our protein intake is key to amplifying our gains. This is primarily driven through

Today we’re look at even more evidence as to why carbohydrates are king for performance…In this case, for team sports. As we know, carbohydrates drive exercise performance and having low carbohydrate availability, i.e. low amount of carbs in the diet and carbs stored within the muscle, liver and blood can be detrimental to performance. Carb