Gut Microbiome, Gut “Health” and the Athlete
This is a topic of much interest, as there is growing interest in the relationship between the gut microbiome and health (and the first...
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Sinead Roberts
- Jan 22, 2021
- 10 min
Nutrition Basics for the Jiu-jitsu Athlete
Why do you train? … apart from for the pure love of it, the fundamental purpose of training is to become better in your sport. As a...
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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 28, 2020
- 5 min
Iron, The Athlete, and Food
It is easy to forget about the little guys in sports nutrition. Sure, calories and macronutrients provide the energy and building blocks...
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Sinead Roberts
- Aug 7, 2020
- 3 min
Why do you choose the foods you do?
By this I mean the ACTUAL foods that you eat. To achieve whatever goals you have. There are many things that can influence our food...
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Sinead Roberts
- Jul 13, 2020
- 3 min
Building Habits
If you are looking to make changes to your diet for the long term, it is likely you are going to need to build some new habits around...
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Sinead Roberts
- Jun 27, 2020
- 11 min
Functional Fitness Athletes: Nutritional Assessment
Nutritional Assessment describes the tools used to assess an athlete, in order develop an appropriate nutrition plan. To know what tools...
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Sinead Roberts
- Jun 7, 2020
- 15 min
Female Athletes: Nutrition
When we talk about nutrition, often we don’t distinguish between men and women. Yet there are distinct differences in male and female...
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Sinead Roberts
- May 31, 2020
- 11 min
Weight Cutting in Combat Sports: What, Why and How?
In combat sports, a heavier athlete has the potential to create more force against their opponent simply through their size. Weight...
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Sinead Roberts
- May 11, 2020
- 2 min
Cravings ...
Do you crave particular foods? Or do the munchies hit at a certain time each day and you ‘have’ to have that [insert food of choice]?...
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Sinead Roberts
- Apr 15, 2020
- 6 min
SLEEP! A Two-Way Street with Diet
I doubt anyone would argue that sleep is fundamental to health and wellbeing. Sleep is the time where our mind and body recovers from...
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Sinead Roberts
- Apr 8, 2020
- 6 min
Stress and Your Nutrition
Stress is defined as being “subject to tension or pressure”. Stress is not necessarily a bad thing. It can be an essential stimulus for...
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Sinead Roberts
- Mar 28, 2020
- 2 min
Intermittent Fasting … to starve or not to starve?
Intermittent fasting. This includes many diets. Most popular these days is the 16:8 diet, where you restrict eating to an 8 hour window...
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Sinead Roberts
- Mar 17, 2020
- 6 min
Health: a nutritional perspective on immune health
Health. The dictionary defines it as ‘the state of being free from illness or injury’. I think many would go further and define it not...
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Sinead Roberts
- Mar 14, 2020
- 1 min
Drink Up!! How much is enough?
Fluid in the body is like oil in a car. It helps everything work properly. From carrying things around in the blood, to digesting food,...
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Sinead Roberts
- Feb 17, 2020
- 4 min
Macros: What and Where?
Food = macronutrients + micronutrients The macronutrients are the things we need in large quantities, and the micronutrients are the...
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Sinead Roberts
- Jan 31, 2020
- 2 min
Communication is Key!!!
As a practitioner, knowing the science is important, but if you can’t communicate it then who cares? This is something I didn’t...
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Sinead Roberts
- Jan 18, 2020
- 11 min
Dietary Considerations for Cutting Weight as an Athlete
If you are an athlete your goal is to train, recover, adapt and perform to your potential. And by ‘athlete’ I mean anyone from a...
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Sinead Roberts
- Jan 16, 2020
- 3 min
Supplements: Friend or Foe of a Strength and Power athlete?
“If a supplement works, it is probably banned. If a supplement is not banned, it probably doesn’t work. There are some exceptions.” (Doug...
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Sinead Roberts
- Jan 11, 2020
- 3 min
‘Diets’ and Diet Breaks
A diet is just what you eat. But of course, when we talk about being ‘on a diet’ we are usually saying we are in a ‘calorie deficit’ i.e....
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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 29, 2019
- 4 min
Health and Performance Takes Guts …
Gut health. There is a good reason this is a nutrition ‘hot topic’. It really does have an important role in health and performance! What...
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