When I’m working with endurance athlete clients, I don’t expect them to eat perfectly 100% of the time. This is unrealistic. Fad diets often set very high expectations, are strict and prohibitive, often expecting the individual to completely change what they are eating as well as...
I ran a day of metabolic testing yesterday to see how metabolically efficient a group of triathletes were. Knowing if your body is metabolically efficient at burning carbohydrate and fat as the right proportions as your exercise intensity changes is really important particularly if you...
For the last 30 years or so, we have been led to believe that fat is bad for us. Government recommendations for the average person have recommended we eat approximately 60% of our daily energy intake as carbohydrate made up of wholegrains. As we have become...
When I’m working with clients who want to lose weight, the first thing I’ll do is calculate what their Daily Energy requirement is. To do this I calculate their Basal Metabolic rate ie the calories their body needs to keep everything working if they were to...
Are you seriously confused about what you should and shouldn’t be eating as an endurance athlete? Should you eat low fat or high fat? Many of the clients I work with are in the 40+ age group which means that they have been indoctrinated into thinking...
I’m sure that you know that being leaner and lighter will mean you can go faster but do you consistently struggle to get to your optimum racing weight? If you’re serious about improving your race times, losing body fat and weight can be the best way...
As an endurance athlete, do you need to eat carbohydrate for training and racing? The answer is, it depends. Over recent years, many books have been written about the low carb high fat (LCHF) endurance athlete. They are full of case studies reporting athletes who do...
When I work with clients who want to shed some body fat, one of the first things I get them to do is to keep a food diary for 7 days. This gives me a snapshot of the foods they are eating, when they are...
Have you ever entered a race and turned up on the day having not done any training and expected to race well? Of course you haven’t ! You might have a coach. You will have put in the hours training in your chosen discipline as...
(BMI) stands for Body Mass Index and it is a very basic body measure which has been put together to assess if you have a healthy level of 'fatness' using an equation that involves the relationship of your height to your weight. Your BMI is calculated...