Nutrition Nutritional Faiths: How Modern Diet Trends Became Like Religion It’s a whirlwind of health advice, where each new “nutrition faith” claims the truth, yet they all share the same core beliefs at heart. By Kira Sutherland • 6 min read
Nutrition Fuelling Recovery With These Nutrition Strategies Effective recovery starts with balanced nutrition—combine protein, carbs and hydration post-workout to replenish glycogen, repair muscles and prepare for your next session. By Kira Sutherland • 2 min read
Nutrition Triathlon Nutrition Simplified: Grant's Guide to Eating Right Triathlon coach Grant demystifies nutrition essentials for peak performance, emphasizing clean eating, protein's pivotal role, and the importance of good fats. By Grant Giles • 1 min read
Nutrition Carbohydrate ingestion rates during exercise: 90 vs 120 grams per hour – which is best? Recent research challenges the notion that ingesting more than 90 grams of carbohydrates per hour during exercise boosts performance. By Daniel Plews • 11 min read
Nutrition Exogenous Ketones and EPO boosting - Worth the Hype? Exogenous ketones, particularly ketone monoesters, may stimulate the production of EPO, potentially enhancing red blood cell count and endurance performance. By Daniel Plews • 4 min read
Nutrition Fueling High-Performance Triathletes: A Personal Review of Fastfood Energy Gels and Hydration Fastfood sports nutrition Galacto Gels and Hydrators impressed with their taste, balanced energy release, and cost-effectiveness, making them a strong contender for high-performance triathletes. By David Deakin • 3 min read
Nutrition Review: PREPD Hydration PREPD is a new hydration solution to hit the market, focused on the specific needs of athletes during different stages of performance, pre and post exercise. PREPD is backed by over 20 years of collaborative medical research between Flinders and Yale Universities. The original clinical research devi By David Deakin • 1 min read
Nutrition Upgrade Snacks to Mini-Meals During Training Anyone who does a lot of fitness training will know that they're burning up the food they eat more efficiently and quickly than when they're in an inactive phase, and there's a tendency to think that as long as you're exercising you can eat what you like, as you'll soon By Shawn Smith • 3 min read
Photo: Shutterstock Nutrition Recovery Smoothie – Supercharged Green and Berry Smoothie After a long hard workout I like to get fueled right away. I find it easiest for me to get down a smoothie rather than solid food. By making a smoothie I am able to pack it full of nutrient dense foods. Below is my “go to” – Green & Berry Super Smoothie 16 oz […] By Jared Simons • 1 min read
Nutrition A Healthy Spin on a BLT BLT Heirloom Tomato with Eggplant Bacon and Frisee 4 Tomatoes (Heirloom variety ) 1 Japanese eggplant (Large) 3 heads baby frisee ½ Maui Onion ½ bunch Red Radish ½ cup Vegan Mayonnaise (Hampton creek, which can be purchased at local markets) 2 Lemon Salt Pepper Cayenne Pepper eggplant marinade 2 tbs By Jared Simons • 1 min read
Nutrition Quinoa Tacos Quinoa Tacos 1 cup Red quinoa (uncooked) 1 ¼ cup Water + ½ cup 1 white onion (large ) 1 cup Tomato based salsa 2 cloves Garlic 2 tbsp Olive oil 1 tbsp Smoked Paprika 1 tbsp Chile powder 1 Tsp Cumin Salt & Pepper to taste 1 dozen Corn tortillas 2 Vine ripe Tomatos […] By Jared Simons • 1 min read
Nutrition 3 Key Tips for Race Day and Recovery Nutrition Most triathletes, at every level, spend a great deal of time tweaking their gear and tweaking their training programs. But I’m amazed by the number of athletes who neglect an area of preparation that can potentially have more impact on their performance and results than any other, especially on race By Tim Van Berkel • 5 min read
Nutrition Healthy and Fast – How to keep your immune system strong Why it is so important to keep your immune system strong & why it will help you go faster! We’ve all heard it before – ‘eat more fruit and veg’, ‘sleep more’ blah blah…. But as endurance athletes and mostly as age group athletes who work and have many other commitments other than training, it [& By Shawn Smith • 4 min read
Nutrition Gluten Free Eating – Putting it into Practice Training & Racing Fuel Now I know a lot of you are interested in learning what gluten free foods/fuel I use in my training and racing. I am going to share this with you, but do warn that you may be a little disappointed. I say this because, quite honestly, I keep it pretty simple. […] By Karl Hayes • 9 min read
Nutrition 5 Tips on Getting the Best Result at Noosa Triathlon from 2-time winner Aaron Royle Acclimatise to the heat, stay hydrated, avoid alcohol pre-race, fine-tune your mid-race nutrition, and ensure your bike setup is race-ready for a successful Noosa Triathlon. By Shawn Smith • 4 min read
Nutrition What a Professional Triathlete Eats: A Day in the Life of Meredith Kessler Discover how pro triathlete Meredith Kessler balances fueling, indulgence and performance with a personalised approach to nutrition and a focus on consistency and moderation. By Karl Hayes • 3 min read
Nutrition Fuelling Your Ironman or Ironman 70.3 Performance There's no doubt racing a half or full Ironman puts some serious demands on your body – I've heard people call it crazy, insane, masochistic, then some people are just left speechless at what we put ourselves through. Over my years of racing, I've learned that it requires so By Tim Van Berkel • 7 min read
Nutrition Quick guide to Gluten Free Its Saturday morning, post long ride. Ritual coffee stop is in order. Legs shattered, you approach the counter. What to order that will nourish me and refuel my body', you ponder. Coffee is a given, but what to eat? You eye a bacon, egg and spinach focaccia in the window labelled dairy free, s By Karl Hayes • 4 min read
Nutrition Endura athlete Emma Jackson: A day on her plate With such a focus on nutrition in the daily media, we decided it was time to see what the best triathletes really put on their plate! First up we spoke to elite triathlete, Olympian and Under 23 World Champion (2010) Emma Jackson to see how she keeps her body performing optimally. Thanks for letting By Karl Hayes • 2 min read
Nutrition Managing body heat in extreme race conditions The 4 places we lose heat the quickest are: head, groin, arm pits and hands Do NOT wear a TT helmet – it will greatly accelerate your body core temp rising as your head won't be able to get rid of the heat. Keep tipping water over yourself consistently – this helps to reduce sweat By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
Nutrition Gluten Free baking at it’s best: Banana Muffins Gluten Free baking at it’s best: Banana Muffins Gluten free baking can be a bit hit and miss, especially if you're not familiar with the range of gluten free flours available. When you do get it right, the result can be amazing, as was the case with these banana muffins! No there not paleo, an By Shawn Smith • 1 min read
Nutrition The importance of staying hydrated this season Hot climates and large sweat losses can severely impact exercise performance and leave you feeling depleted and drained of energy. To have the stamina to power through sweat-inducing events, it is vital to replenish your electrolyte and energy stores. The Importance of Hydration A loss of even 2% of By Karl Hayes • 3 min read
Nutrition Fast Food and Recovery – Extra work for your body The amount of times I've heard the comment I just did a triathlon so I deserve to eat this food to replace all the fat I just used up while they consume some processed food product from our contemporary societies fast food chain, I thought it would be good to write an article about the [&hell By Karl Hayes • 4 min read
Nutrition Race and training nutrition tips for long course triathlon With summer upon us race season is well underway in the triathlon community and the next physical test is around the corner in our nation's capital. Canberra Ironman 70.3 is only two weeks away. A race date which some of you are eager and ready to test your physical limits in, while others are By Karl Hayes • 7 min read
