Why am I writing a blog about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and nutrition?   ADHD impacts, amongst other thing,...

WHAT DRIVES PERFORMANCE Performance in training and competition is determined by four key components: Physiology This is your performance...

With just over 4 weeks until the London marathon, we thought it was time to get a 101 on fuelling before, during, and after up on the...

Most of us will have noticed the creeping increase in the weekly food bill over the past 12 months, and the chances are it is only going...

It is very easy to get caught up in all things ‘calories’ and ‘macros’ and forget that for short and long term health, performance and...

Depending what area of sports science research you are interested in, analyses have placed research including women at between 11%-40% of...

Competition nutrition (what you eat before during and after competition) is distinct to your day to day nutrition to support your...

It is fair to say the topic of supplements can be a controversial one in sports nutrition! What is almost universally agreed these days...

The great debate on fasted training! Is it ‘better’ or ‘worse’? As ever, context is everything. Inherently, it is neither better nor...

Creatine. Possibly the most studied and one of the most used supplements, with evidence suggesting benefits to strength, muscle mass,...

Let’s face it, we wouldn’t be able to do much without them. But it can be easy to ignore or de-prioritise something until it becomes an...

When it comes to achieving your nutrition goals, different strategies work for different people. One strategy to consider is meal prep....

In combat sports, a larger and heavier athlete is expected to have a natural strength and power advantage over a smaller counterpart, as...

What we are going to be talking about is the manipulatable elements of fat and muscle, rather than genetically determined height and...

Summing up the supplements market … “If it works, it is probably banned. If it isn’t banned, it probably doesn’t work. There are some...

Why do you perform the way you during exercise? Setting aside psychology and acute fuelling, your performance potential is largely...

You do a workout or a competition and your performance is ‘X’ time, or ‘Y’ number of reps, or whatever the scoring is for that particular...

There is (rightly!) a lot of focus on protein in an athlete’s diet. And there are also a lot of misconceptions out there. So in this...

Extended periods of dieting can lead to physiological, metabolic and psychological changes that may adversely impact the likelihood of...

Concurrent Training … the concept of simultaneously training to improve in sports that require very different exercise adaptations....