This may seem a simple concept but overwhelmingly is not implemented by most people. For those of you who follow a set plan you may have a easy, medium and hard week setup, along with recovery weeks. If not, you probably will vary your training depending upon the time of year and where you are […]

To be good at anything at life in life we have to make a choice.  Often that choice is about what we are going to give up to achieve our aims. This is particularly the case with regard to nutrition. How many times have you heard someone say (maybe even you):

There is a lot of research out there which points towards amateur endurance athletes being fat. No, not really fat but certainly having higher body fat than they should considering all the training that they do.

If you have, you will know this is a thoroughly horrible experience. Unfortunately I have a couple of times – once with mildly amusing consequences. This time was when I was rowing.

Whether I like it or not, most peoples nutritional motivations are to do with fat loss.  However there is a minority who acknowledge that what goes in has a significant effect on performance. One thing however does unite these two camps.

In my experience of working with triathletes, the majority choose to eat porridge for breakfast. The question is whether there is a better option? My opinion is there is and that option is eggs. Most people are afraid of eating too many eggs, generally because they are under the impression that they will raise their […]

The world of nutrition has a number of problems. The biggest one for me is the fact that there are so many products and approaches which are marketed in an extreme way. It seems as though human beings are attracted to the extreme and this means an opportunity for somebody, or a company, to get […]

It goes without saying that athletes would benefit from eating differently from the majority of the sedentary population. The challenge with Triathlon is that the length of the various events throws up extra hurdles. With nutrition there is definitely not a blueprint that can be followed by all but the purpose of this blog is to give […]

We are inundated  with advertisements displaying the latest benefits of sports drinks, often  with promises of improved sporting performance. If I look around any gym I see many people aimlessly swigging brightly coloured liquids, but are they helping or hindering them in their aims? Sports drinks are  made up of 90% water, the rest is carbohydrate in […]