Carbohydrate ingestion during exercise worksbut what is the best carbohydrate for performance? Whether newer carbohydrate ...

When a study reports that athletes oxidised 60 g of an ingested carbohydrate per hour, it sounds as simple as measuring heart ...

Athletes are regularly offered home blood tests that promise to identify the foods behind their bloating, fatigue or poor recovery, and many coaches and practitioners have met an athlete who arrives ...

For decades lactate was one of the most misunderstood molecules in exercise physiology. It became the villain of high-intensity exercise. Coaches blamed it for fatigue. Athletes blamed it for the ...

The framework of allostasis was developed precisely because single-lens explanations repeatedly failed to capture what living systems actually do under sustained challenge. It provides a way to ...

Most people in sport agree on the basics: athletes improve by training, and “training load” matters. Increase load (sensibly) and you adapt. Increase it too fast, too far, or for too long, and fatigue ...

The recently published UCI Sports Nutrition Project paper on road cycling provides one of the most comprehensive overviews to date of race nutrition in professional road cycling (1)(CLICK HERE). It ...

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in sport has not only transformed workflows; it has triggered an emotional response. Excitement, curiosity, scepticism and fear coexist in equal measure.

In a previous blog I explained the reason for the grams per hour recommendations. In a large number of studies there seemed to be only small differences between individuals in terms of the maximum ...

With increasing age muscle strength, lean/muscle mass and functional ability decline. This is commonly referred to as sarcopenia. Sarcopenia decreases the ability to perform activities of daily living ...

In previous blogs we have discussed the role of protein intake for muscle protein synthesis. However, muscle contains many different functional proteins. While most research has focussed on ...

The study investigated the effect of an ‘oxygen-nanobubble beverage’ on physiology and performance in a small group of cyclists. The authors report a very large 2.4% improvement in performance in a 16 ...