sport nutrition

Are you a fitness geek?

Posted On Friday, 13th July 2012 at 13:55

Happy Embrace your Geekness Day!

To celebrate we are embracing our inner geek by combining our love of sports and fitness with all things technological and statistical!

Here are a few interesting fitness based stats to get you in the mood:

1) Becoming dehydrated by just 5% can lead to a decrease in performance by 20%

Top 3 fitness apps for new ipad

Posted On Friday, 23rd March 2012 at 08:36

What apps are best for fitness?

You might want to take advantage of technology to help keep you motivated. Following the launch of the new iPad 3, we took a look at the top mobile applications available to help you achieve your fitness goals. Here are 3 good ones:

How to make your 200m time faster

Posted On Monday, 12th March 2012 at 08:46

With the World Indoor Athletics Championships underway, I thought it would be good to look at some of the Men's 200m outdoor times.

Have a look at the graph below that Paula Jardine has collated.

men's 200m

Batman's recovery drink

Posted On Wednesday, 25th January 2012 at 08:09

What does Batman drink after a hard night of crime fighting?

Batman milk

If it's good enough for Batman, it should be good enough for you.

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Water intake for athletes: Body weight chart

Posted On Wednesday, 08th June 2011 at 05:47

I hope the table below is useful to the all the athletes we train. It outlines the quantity of water that athletes should be consuming in a normal resting day and training days, with different amount of fluid intake dependent on number of hours training.

Is it better to drink water or Lucozade?

Posted On Monday, 30th May 2011 at 06:42

“Well is it?”…

water or lucozade? A frequently asked question. While listening to a speech at a coaching conference recently, I heard that if plain water was cool or sleep could be bottled, you could make a lot more money.

The young athlete's diet- diary of an Intern

Posted On Friday, 18th March 2011 at 07:51

Busy, Busy, Busy!

Istvan "Steve" Javorek's top 4 training tips

Posted On Wednesday, 15th December 2010 at 10:48

Istvan "Steve" Javorek is famous for his book and methodology of training with complexes.

Here are 4 nuggets of training advice that I gleaned from a 2 day workshop with him 3 years ago:

Sports Nutrition- Grow your own veg

Posted On Thursday, 25th March 2010 at 03:40

bbcdigin As Andrew Hamilton remarked a couple of weeks ago on the blog festival with regards to sports nutrition: Walk before you run. It constantly amazes me how clueless young athletes are about simpel eating facts. One of the reasons is that society has beome distant from food in its natural state. Do youngsters go scrumping anymore? (that would combine the tree climbing for pulling strength and healthy eating!).

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