What Does Food Do? Life, Training and Recovery
This blog is a bit different to my usual. We look at what food does for us, and the implications of this: including a brief look at the...
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Sinead Roberts
Feb 19, 20218 min read
Strength, Hypertrophy & (Some) Nutrition
Strength, Hypertrophy & (Some) Nutrition Why only ‘some’ nutrition?! Because there is A LOT we could get into. And we will, in different...
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Sinead Roberts
Feb 17, 20212 min read
Foods Do not Have Morals!! Let’s stop calling them ‘Good’ or ‘Bad’
“I was really good today” “I ate all the bad things” “It was a cheat on my diet” “That’s really clean” … have you ever referred to your...
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Antonia Braun
Feb 9, 20214 min read
Chrononutrition: How your sleep pattern influences your food choices
We’ve all been told that 7-8 hours of sleep seems to be the magical number that we should be aiming for to give our body enough rest. But...
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Lucy Walton
Jan 29, 20217 min read
Gut Microbiome, Gut “Health” and the Athlete
This is a topic of much interest, as there is growing interest in the relationship between the gut microbiome and health (and the first...
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Sinead Roberts
Jan 22, 202110 min read
Nutrition Basics for the Jiu-jitsu Athlete
Why do you train? … apart from for the pure love of it, the fundamental purpose of training is to become better in your sport. As a...
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Sinead Roberts
Dec 28, 20205 min read
Iron, The Athlete, and Food
It is easy to forget about the little guys in sports nutrition. Sure, calories and macronutrients provide the energy and building blocks...
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Sinead Roberts
Aug 7, 20203 min read
Why do you choose the foods you do?
By this I mean the ACTUAL foods that you eat. To achieve whatever goals you have. There are many things that can influence our food...
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Sinead Roberts
Jul 13, 20203 min read
Building Habits
If you are looking to make changes to your diet for the long term, it is likely you are going to need to build some new habits around...
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Sinead Roberts
Jun 27, 202011 min read
Functional Fitness Athletes: Nutritional Assessment
Nutritional Assessment describes the tools used to assess an athlete, in order develop an appropriate nutrition plan. To know what tools...
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Sinead Roberts
Jun 7, 202015 min read
Female Athletes: Nutrition
When we talk about nutrition, often we don’t distinguish between men and women. Yet there are distinct differences in male and female...
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Sinead Roberts
May 31, 202011 min read
Weight Cutting in Combat Sports: What, Why and How?
In combat sports, a heavier athlete has the potential to create more force against their opponent simply through their size. Weight...
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Sinead Roberts
May 11, 20202 min read
Cravings ...
Do you crave particular foods? Or do the munchies hit at a certain time each day and you ‘have’ to have that [insert food of choice]?...
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Sinead Roberts
Apr 15, 20206 min read
SLEEP! A Two-Way Street with Diet
I doubt anyone would argue that sleep is fundamental to health and wellbeing. Sleep is the time where our mind and body recovers from...
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Sinead Roberts
Apr 8, 20206 min read
Stress and Your Nutrition
Stress is defined as being “subject to tension or pressure”. Stress is not necessarily a bad thing. It can be an essential stimulus for...
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Sinead Roberts
Mar 28, 20202 min read
Intermittent Fasting … to starve or not to starve?
Intermittent fasting. This includes many diets. Most popular these days is the 16:8 diet, where you restrict eating to an 8 hour window...
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Sinead Roberts
Mar 17, 20206 min read
Health: a nutritional perspective on immune health
Health. The dictionary defines it as ‘the state of being free from illness or injury’. I think many would go further and define it not...
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Sinead Roberts
Mar 14, 20201 min read
Drink Up!! How much is enough?
Fluid in the body is like oil in a car. It helps everything work properly. From carrying things around in the blood, to digesting food,...
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Sinead Roberts
Feb 17, 20204 min read
Macros: What and Where?
Food = macronutrients + micronutrients The macronutrients are the things we need in large quantities, and the micronutrients are the...
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Sinead Roberts
Jan 31, 20202 min read
Communication is Key!!!
As a practitioner, knowing the science is important, but if you can’t communicate it then who cares? This is something I didn’t...
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