Nutrition throws up a lot of questions and its something I deal with every day and I absolutely love it. I love helping people solve their problems – it makes me feel good like I have a real purpose. It’s why I always get back to peoples emails and messages, even if it sometimes takes […]

Why is this important? As an athlete, we want to feel fuelled and we want to feel energised – maintaining our blood sugars will help with this. If we are attempting to improve our body composition or drop a little weight, fluctuations in blood sugar can hinder this. Simply, as blood sugar drops we get […]

So six weeks ago most of us were setting ourselves some pretty lofty goals. This year, I am going to: – Break 2 hours for a half marathon – Go sub 10 for an Ironman – Get selected for GB of my AG – Lose one stone by February the 12th!!!!!!!

I was listening to a podcast the other day. One of the guys who is a coach for team GB’s Elite Triathletes was saying how most endurance athletes are a little bit OCD. The context of the conversation related to how most of these OCD people are more inclined to do too much training rather […]

One of the great things about Triathlon as a sport is that it has a relatively low barrier to entry – apart from the cost of Ironman events………. Nearly everyone has at some time run. Nearly everyone will have learned to ride a bike when they were a kid.

Unless you are a bit daft, you probably don’t do exactly the same training each day. In fact, you probably don’t just repeat the same sessions each week. There will be some level of programming and periodisation to your plan.

If you are on a diet at the moment and your goal is to lose body fat. You may also want to see actual weight loss but we know the most important thing is fat loss. How then can we target actual loss of fat, over just weight?