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, 20203 min read
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, 20203 min read
‘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, 20194 min read
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, 20195 min read
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, 20193 min read
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, 20193 min read
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, 20197 min read
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, 20192 min read
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, 20193 min read
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, 20194 min read
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, 20196 min read
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, 20194 min read
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, 20193 min read
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, 20194 min read
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, 20195 min read
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, 20192 min read
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, 20194 min read
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, 20196 min read
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, 20194 min read
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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