Nutrition Advice

Whilst people seldom loose more than 2% body weight through dehydration in a typical gym workout, researchers from the University of Bath in the UK showed that 37% of gym goers arrived at training in a dehydrated state.  Those who arrived in...

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Are you getting enough? Racking up a sleep debt by burning the candle at both ends is likely to have a detrimental effect on body composition and general health.  It doesn’t take many nights of restricted sleep to have a measurable negative...

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Without massively changing what you eat, just eat less or get used to leaving a proportion of what you would normally eat.  Ask yourself if you really need ½ a kg or rice on curry night or if substituting with a smaller...

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OK, it’s nice to have a ‘real’ drink from time to time.  However, it is worth remembering that every 13 pints you don’t drink between now and the racing season is likely to reduce your mass by what it would have been...

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When body builders are ‘cutting down’ for a competition they often use very strict diets yet will schedule in a ‘cheat day’ every 10 days or so.  Rather than deprive yourself of foods and drinks you really crave it is often a...

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Often the body confuses thirst with hunger, satisfying thirst first is a useful strategy that may also have a modest effect on reducing genuine hunger.  There is also a potential energy cost in processing cold water.

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