‘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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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 22, 2019
- 5 min
Tendons and Ligaments: What can food do when they go wrong?
Whether you are an elite athlete or just someone who enjoys moving each day, injuries are a pain in the butt (maybe literally!). Many...
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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 22, 2019
- 3 min
Fundamentals of Nutrition
We are quite literally what we eat. Every part of our body, from the muscles powering our barbell lifts to our littlest toenail, is...
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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 22, 2019
- 3 min
What is Your Number One?
Priority (noun.): a thing that is regarded as more important than others. By definition only a limited number of things in life can be a...
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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 22, 2019
- 7 min
Not a Gamechanger: A scientific and personal view.
The Gamechanger Movie. Cited as proof that plant based diets are superior for athletic performance and health. Before I get into the...
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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 22, 2019
- 2 min
To Track, Or Not to Track
Okay, so the title is somewhat misleading. Because if you are focussing on your nutrition, i.e. knowing what you are putting in your...
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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 22, 2019
- 3 min
Why, Not What.
This blog is a bit of a deviation from my norm, but it is important. If you are working with me it is because you want to make a change...
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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 22, 2019
- 4 min
Women are not small men, and men are not large women!
Continuing with factors that can impact an individual’s nutrition requirements: Gender. I will say upfront that this is not an article...
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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 22, 2019
- 6 min
Inflammation, Ibuprofen (aka NSAIDs) and Training
Inflammation = pain = take ibuprofen = reduced inflammation = reduced pain = yay! Right?! Given that you are about to read an article on...
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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 22, 2019
- 4 min
CrossFit Competition Eating. A Different Beast!
The CrossFit Open just 3 weeks away marks the start of a new competition season for many within CrossFit and Functional Fitness more...
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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 22, 2019
- 3 min
Genes: Next Level Nutrition?
Nature versus Nurture. Are we determined by our genes or our environment? Of course the answer is both: it is nature and nurture, not...
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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 22, 2019
- 4 min
Fuelling YOU!
You are unique! No one else has quite the same combination of age, gender, body composition, genetics, sport, training schedule, training...
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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 22, 2019
- 5 min
Buffering the burn: B-alanine and sodium bicarbonate. What and why?
The fire that ignites in your muscles as you smash your legs in an all-out sprint, fight for just one more rep in that AMRAP, or plough...
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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 22, 2019
- 2 min
Vitamin D and Performance
Vitamin D is produced in the skin in response to sunlight, and can also be obtained in smaller quantities from the diet. Vitamin D has...
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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 22, 2019
- 4 min
Nutrition Q&A!
Given the sheer volume of (at face value) conflicting nutrition information out there, in this blog post I thought I would take the...
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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 22, 2019
- 6 min
Antioxidants: Can you have too much of a good thing?
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) can damage the cells in our body, disrupting function. Exercise increases the production of ROS. So …...
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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 22, 2019
- 4 min
CBD Oil – behind the hype
In 2018 the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) removed cannabidiol (CBD) from its list of banned substances and since then there has been an...
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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 22, 2019
- 7 min
CrossFit – Basic Exercise Physiology and Nutrition
This is going to be the first thousand-mile-high look at what we know and what we can hypothesise about the exercise physiology and...
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Sinead Roberts
- Dec 22, 2019
- 7 min
High Fat and Ketogenic Diets: Friend or Foe of the High Performing CrossFitter?
I am beginning this post with a disclaimer as this topic is vast and there is only so much that can be addressed in a single post (or at...
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