Have you ever obsessed about the weight of your racing shoe? It’s important because weight below the knee has a big relative impact on running efficiency. Well, if you do, you are very right but do you have a clear idea of much the weight on your body matters? Runners sometimes laugh at the cyclist…
René Borg speaks to Barry Murray, performance nutritionist and owner of OptimumNutrition4Sport, after our first of joint workshop in Wicklow. This time we are taking questions submitted by you. This is Part 3. Listen to Part 1 or Part 2. Listen now (note we had a few outages, they have been largely edited out) In part 3…
René Borg speaks to Barry Murray, performance nutritionist and owner of OptimumNutrition4Sport, at the time of our first joint workshops in Wicklow held on the 1st-2nd November. This is Part 2. Listen to Part 1. Part 3 now available here. Listen now In part 2 of this 3 part series we cover What’s the story…
René Borg speaks to Barry Murray, performance nutritionist and owner of OptimumNutrition4Sport, ahead of the first of our joint workshops in Wicklow on the 1st-2nd November. Listen now In part 1 of this 3 part series we cover Why are nutritionists talking about movement and lifestyle and why coaches are talking about food? What’s up…
Getting fitter and healthier is about more than training hard, shedding pounds and trying to clean up your diet. Even with optimal diet and exercise, there are still many elements of performance and health that you may be ignoring to your detriment. We are not simple beings when it comes to health and performance rather…
The sports and energy drinks industry has been cast into a limelight they would probably rather have avoided in the last few months, an avalanche that seemed to begin rolling with BBC’s “Panorama – the truth about sports drinks” which they followed up by a report on the BBC website called “Lack of evidence that…
The term carbohydrate intolerance loosely describes the condition that eventually leads to the serious lifestyle diseases we see in the so-called developed world: Diabetes 2, heart failure, digestive problems and other conditions. It stems from an inability to fully digest certain types of carbohydrates (sugars and starches) such as lactose (milk sugar – the most…
Iron supplementation has become very common for athletes of all abilities, particularly women, stemming from a belief that red blood cells get broken down by the “excessive pounding” of regular running on hard surfaces and that more iron is required to rebuild it. Therefore the term “exercise-induced anemia” has come in use. While evidence exists…
Well-reputed endurance expert Phil Maffetone provides many of the guiding principles we use in our coaching here at ChampionsEverywhere. His focus on “training slower to go faster” and keeping things simple and natural have direct roots back into Lydiard’s system and when in doubt about how to approach broader issues relevant to performance, such as…
As those following our recent podcasts with performance nutritionist Barry Murray now, we are not too keen on supplements but we have been making an exception for beet root juice for a few reasons. 1) It’s not really a supplement but a food – as the only ingredients are beet root and lemon juice and…
This article shows a sample day’s food choices for an athlete doing an aerobic workout. This is our athlete: A 56.6-kg female runner with an average body fat percentage of 24.4% (meaning she has 75.6% lean body mass). The runner has a Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) of 1282cal. She did a 90-minute aerobic workout at…
As the demands on your body change as you progress through the training phases of our programmes so will your body’s nutritional requirements. To ensure that you always get the best out of your training, we suggest you closely follow these guidelines which will tell you on what nutrients and food groups to put your…
This article shows a sample day’s food choices for an athlete doing an aerobic workout. This is our athlete: A 70-kg male runner with an average body fat percentage of 10% (meaning he has 90% lean body mass). The runner has a Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) of 1730cal. He did a 90-minute aerobic workout at…
In this article, we want to give all athletes a quick reference to what they should eat and when.
