nutrition
Using caffeine for sports performance
There is little doubt that caffeine can have a beneficial effect on endurance running performance. But there’s more to getting a performance boost than glugging down a pre-race coffee. “A dose of around 3mg of caffeine per kg body weight is needed to have an ergogenic effect in endurance exercise,” says sports dietician Ruth McKean. [...]
Being overweight makes mental muscle flabby too…
Here is a controversial study, if ever I saw one. Research presented last week at Neuroscience 2012, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, suggests that being obese appears to compromise cognitive function. In the study, conducted jointly by Carnegie Mellon and Pittsburgh Universities, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to image the brains [...]
New workshop dates announced!
My next London-based running workshop will take place on Sunday January 16th 2011 - the perfect way to kickstart your New Year, whether you are an old-hand or a newcomer to running. See Coaching & Workshops for more information on the content of this workshop. I am also running my first marathon-specific workshop on Sunday [...]
Running with dinosaurs!
Crystal Palace park with its much-loved dinosaurs and world-famous stadium provided an interesting backdrop for my latest running workshop. We looked at technique using video analysis and then set about improving it with drills and exercises before putting it all into practice on a run. Then we addressed strength training and its importance for runners in a theory [...]
Quick fix for fast food
I read today in the American Journal of Cardiology that researchers at Imperial College, London, have suggested that people are given statin pills when they buy burgers, to override the effects of eating junk food. The statins would work by reducing levels of ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol - which the burgers and other high-fat fast food items [...]