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Roar : How to match your food and fitness to your female Physiology for optimum performance, great health and a strong lean body for life. ROAR was recommended to me by Dr Craig Harrison, who said it was a must read and on that recommendation I bought it immediately. Initially I didn’t find it that […]

Drinks that claim to have health benefits are the largest and fastest growing segment of the functional foods sector. The market is growing at over 20% a year and health drinks are now commonly available in every local supermarket, petrol station and shop. Health claims range from simply boosting energy and immunity to improving cardio-vascular health, […]

Caffeine for Sports Performance by Louise Burke, Ben Desbrow and Lawrence Spriet Caffeine for Sports Performance was first published in 2013 and even two years later is the most complete text on the effects of caffeine, offering a good review of all the research that was available at the time. Despite being effectively an extended […]

If you read my piece ‘Importance of your gut for performance – What GCSE and A-Level Biology doesn’t tell you‘ and wanted to know more, Giulia Enders book is almost certainly the best place to start. Giulia Enders is a doctoral student in Germany studying microbiology. She first came to prominence when a 10minute presentation she […]

Professor Greg Whyte is a former olympian and sports scientist, who has been the main motivator behind Comic Relief and Sport Reliefs momentous sporting challenges. Described as a “motivational god” by Comic Reliefs CEO Kevin Cahill and “the best mentor ever” by Davina McCall, Greg Whyte’s new book ‘Achieve the Impossible’ published March 2015, encourages us […]

What can we learn from Sports Science ? Mark McClusky’s new book, Faster, Higher, Stronger, which was published at the end of last year, is the best book I have come across at answering the question “what we can learn from sports science?”. A really good review of the latest research and technology, written in […]

Chris Hoy winning a life time achievement award at last nights BBC Sports Personality Awards, reminded me how much I had enjoyed Richard Moore’s book – Heroes, Villains and Velodromes. First published in 2008 and primarily focusing on Chris Hoy, it gives an unprecedented insight in to the secret worlds of track cycling at a time when everything was […]

Michael Hutchinson’s book ‘Faster‘ is genius and definitely worth reading if you are involved in or interested in sport in any way. Michael Hutchinson is a British pro rider who has focused his career on the domestic time trial circuit. Naturally talented and blessed with giant lungs, he found it relatively easy to get involved […]

Scientific Research confirms what parents and teachers have long suspected – the teenage brain is different. The book ‘Blame my Brain – The amazing teenage brain revealed’ written by Nicola Morgan was first published in 2005. Updated in 2013, it is a very good, easy to read, easy to understand summary of what science shows are […]

On-the-Go Food for Athletes….. What do Formula Ones Nico Rosberg and Sky Pro cyclist Chris Froome have in common? This weekend the current leader of the Formula One points table, Nico Rosberg, was clearly seen eating boiled potatoes in the garage before his race and members of the successful Sky Pro Cycling Team including Chris Froome […]