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50. Nutrition for pre-menopausal female cyclists: Ange Hookham
Nutrition can either make or break a ride, and it's when you put it to the test and experience this properly for yourself that you really understand that it's not just a fluke Ange Hookham is a cyclist personal...
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49. Fuelling a Kona slot at Ironman NZ with triathlete Dan Barry
What does it take to fuel a Kona slot when you are an Ironman triathlete? Today I have invited Dan Barry, a triathlete and previous client onto the podcast to share his experience learning how to optimise his...
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48. What motivates you? What is your why?
Have you ever thought about what motivates you?
What drives you to do the things that you do or don’t want to do?
I’ve been speaking with a number of people lately about the topic of motivation and how it...
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47. Cycling is a weight sensitive but not a weight making sport.
The number one nutrition goal cyclists of all ages and abilities have when they want to work with me as a sports dietitian is to lose weight and improve their power to weight ratio.
Many cyclists assume that if you...
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46. Plant based sources of iron: Ask a sports dietitian
My blood tests show that I am anaemic. I don’t like eating meat and am not a huge fan of eating eggs. What foods should I eat more of to help increase absorption and help manage fatigue?
If you don't like meat or...
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45. Tracking your menstrual cycle as a female athlete
For female cyclists, and female athlete, there is a lot of debate about whether our menstrual cycles influence our performance... how, when and what to do about it.
A recent systematic review and meta-analysis...
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44. Your body isn’t Amazon prime. The results take more than 24 hours!
If you could snap your fingers and change something about your nutrition within the next 24h, what would it be?
What's your Amazon overnight order?
How awesome would it be if we could press send and within two days...
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43. Are you tracking this? Synrgy female specific cycling coaching
What would a man know about female cycling?!
Female cyclists have a few more things to consider for their training and their nutrition than their male counterparts. And a man is never going to fully understand the...
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42. You have permission to eat cookies and other “forbidden” foods
How many foods right now are on your 'not allowed to eat' list?
Maybe it's cookies.
Maybe it's chocolate.
Maybe it's icecream.
chips, cheese.....
It might even be hot cross buns!
Whatever the food that you've...
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41. Carb loading advice for 3 Peaks challenge. ASK A SPORTS DIETITIAN
Are you training for the 3 peaks Challenge in March? Have you thought about training your nutrition as well as the physical training you need to ride 235km with >4000m climbing in less than 13 hours?
One of the...
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40. What does success look like to you?
I am currently in Adelaide at Tour Down Under this week and was asked the question what does a successful athlete look like to me? Such a great question!
Typically when it comes to success, most peoples minds would...
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39. You don't have to go on a diet. Every meal is an opportunity to level up your nutrition
You don't have to give up any of your favourite foods, go on a crazy diet or start an extreme exercise regime this January if you don't want to.
At the beginning of the new year there can be a lot of pressure and...
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