Getting ready for a big race? Wondering what all the carb loading hype is about? Here are some great tips to get you prepped and ready for your best race day yet!
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The Ultimate Guide to Carbs
Trendy fad diets tend to contradict each other. While some include carbohydrates, others altogether avoid them or differentiate between good and bad carbs. It can be challenging to know what information to trust or what approach is right for you. With our ultimate guide to carbs, you can ditch the fads and better understand how…
How to Keep Fit in Isolation
A common question we are all asking right now is, how do we keep fit in isolation? With many races cancelled and even regular exercise restricted for athletes right across Australia, our routines have to change. That can be hard, both physically and mentally, and many athletes feel that by slowing down they will lose…
What is Carb Cycling and Does it Help With Training?
When athletes are training, they set exercise routines that include both easy days and hard days. And as they plan for these cycles, many athletes find it advantageous to adjust their diets and follow trends like carb-cycling. As sports nutrition shows us, some diet changes can help enhance our athletic performance. They can even help…
Electrolytes: Essential to life
Electrolytes: Essential to life Electrolytes are minerals that carry an electric charge when they are dissolved in a liquid such as blood. The blood electrolytes—sodium, potassium, chloride, and bicarbonate—help regulate nerve and muscle function and maintain acid-base balance and water balance, essentially controlling the shift of fluid in and out of cells. These minerals derived from the earth’s crust,…
What’s so super about Supergreens?
What’s so super about Supergreens? We might all debate what the perfect ‘healthy’ diet is, but we know that eating whole-foods including a wide range of nutrients and avoiding sugar and processed foods is vital. While we might aim for the perfect diet, it’s not always that easy. Whether it’s a heavy training load, lack…
Boost your immune system to avoid illness
Boost your immune system to avoid illness As we face new and unique health challenges, our immune system is the first line of defence. Therefore, people with compromised immunity are most at risk such as people with chronic diseases or the elderly. Although we can’t do anything about our age, there are many things we…
Training nutrition made simple
It is quite simply your most common question – what nutrition do I need to use in training? How much water, carbs, electrolytes, protein?? No matter what new exciting product or promise is out there, your basic nutrition needs are actually quite simple, and the science behind the nutrition is very clear. With that in…
How much protein do we need?
by Issi Brookes ~ Feb 2020 It is vital that as an athlete you ensure that your protein intake is adequate and this particularly applies in the post activity period. When exercising, the presence of adrenaline and absence of insulin results in muscle proteins breaking down to release amino acids. As muscle protein is breaking…
The pros of plant protein
by Issi Brookes ~ Feb 2020 Protein is an essential macro-nutrient that helps build muscle, repair tissue, and make enzymes and hormones in our bodies. Basically, it is one of the building blocks of our bone, muscle, and skin and is an important component of almost every cell in the body. Eating adequate amounts of…