SiS must have cornered the market for sugars futures with 2017 sales at £15.6m, up 28% from £12.2m in 2016. Other highlights: International business up 60% (£4.4m) SiS claim record levels of brand awareness 58% increase in online direct sales via scienceinsport.com (£4.6m) Other 3rd party online sales up 27% (£3.9m) Retail sales and distribution…
It’s great to read lots of nonesense about diet, very entertaining. A whole industry has been made out of it. Several of my nearest and dearest are foodies who know a LOT about diets (aka recipes and eating) and continually advise me on the ‘latest research’ aka a book by Nigella or someone else famous.…
CURRANZ have just let me release a new discount code “5KRUNNER” which you can use here at the curranz site (link to: healthcurrncy.co.uk) It’s nearly 30% off and, according to Fleur @curranz, that’s the best deal YOU can get anywhere. I receive no money for providing you with this discount but I do get the occasional…
Convinced about blackcurrants yet? See image to right. Convinced about the science? See (this) Convinced about Beetroot juice yet? Hang around in the post-race doping testing tents and check out the colour of all the urine samples. (Or just take my word for it…that could get a little weird). Convinced about Caffeine yet? Sigh. Actually…
Science In Sport kindly sent me some free product in return for my thoughts on 2x new products. Here they are: GO CAFFEINE SHOT I used to take Red Bull shots for caffeine but they are now no longer available. So, for me this is a welcome replacement. First up – YOU should be taking…
Before I start wittering on about gel, this is an interesting chart from QS EMFIT. It’s a 6 month daily trend of night-time and waking HRV. The green line is the waking HRV and the higher it is the better it is; the entire white line represents night recovery, sort of. It suggests that I’m…
I found this interesting, by Triathlete.com,via Triathlete.com » Feed. We often use the words “fit” and “healthy” in our everyday language to mean the same thing. If you’re fit, then surely you must be healthy. The two terms go together in commonplace language. But in actual fact, as I’ve written recently with legendary coach…
In previous posts I have scoffed a little about ‘Zone 2 training’ which, by now, I have become quite accustomed to. I sort-of noticed the increasing volume as the weeks went by but that was all fine as I was secretly enjoying running/cycling a long way and exploring new bits of my neighbouring areas that…
This Tropical Green Smoothie Bowl is powered with spinach and some delicious Winter fruits. To avoid the morning rush, you can make the smoothie base in advance and just pile up some fruits, seeds and nuts on top. It is sweetened with figs which you can replace with dates. Smoothie bowls are one of my…
Recovery Protein Bowl Dressed in a tasty and creamy chipotle avocado dressing this recipe make the perfect post workout meal. Quorn (a healthy low fat protein) is seasoned with smoked paprika for a Southwestern twist. The combination of brown rice, black beans and fresh vegetables makes this protein bowl a balanced meal. Nutritional content…
Some new research on Blackcurrant supplementation is shown below in a Press Release from Curranz. You can quickly see in the summary, below, that we are talking about potentially significant increases in cardiovascular function in relation to performance and recovery. Along with caffeine and beetroot juice, blackcurrant extract is what I would ‘use for a race’. If…
Ha Ha. Geddit? Cheque list. This is going to be expensive! I appreciate that Americans spell cheque differently (check) which sort of loses half the audience. But I will persevere regardless of linguistics. Luckily I’ve been doing triathlons for a while and have also finished the half-distance. I write an endurance gadget sports blog. So I…
I use the CURRANZ product and have made no secret of that previously. I believe it has some performance as well as health benefits. I think it works – aids recovery and makes me faster. Especially in combination with beetroot concentrate. But some of the info below is interesting from a wider health and performance…
I’m getting desperate with titles. sorry about that. I meant to post some updates on blackcurrant supplementation a few weeks ago but forgot. I’ve attached one of the press releases, below. Essentially they appear to have the effect of both: skewing the energy source during endurance exercise to fat ie oxideses more fat; and increases…
In you last parkrun or duathlon or bike TT, maybe you started off feeling great? Maybe that new coach had worked wonders? Maybe the new taper was working wonders too? You were FLYING! You hardly needed to breathe really. Awesome! But after a minute you reverted to normal. 🙁 Sigh. Why? The first 10 seconds of…
I had a bit of a mad day on Saturday in the rain. One of those ‘It seemed like a good idea at the time moments’ Of course, in hindsight, they never are. The plan was 90 ish (that means a bit less) minutes running followed by 4 and a half hours or so of…
I’ve been whinging to myself a fair bit recently about my technique. Or lack thereof. My cycling seems to show a left favouring and my running feels awful but seems to show a good balance and my swimming technique is just rubbish (ish). So I’ve been stretching a bit. Well, a lot. To tie in…
Mark Willems (University of Chichester) has published some research papers recently showing CURRANZ blackcurrant capsules do the following: Ability to burn more fat Participants showed increases of up to 27% at moderate cycling intensity, and 15% at low intensity Reduced carbohydrate demand Participants used 11.5% less carbohydrate Ability to tolerate higher lactate Participants had elevated lactate…
If you are serious about getting a superb IronMan time then you will have some form of hydration system that is integrated into your bike frame to both improve aeroness and lower the centre of gravity (hmmm!). 99% of us are faced with the less aero choice of standard frame/seat mounted bottles/cages or an aerobar…
Just to be clear if you cheat and/or break the rules then you should be DQ’d and I don’t support cheating in any way whatsoever. I’ve personally seen people wear swim gloves; we’ve all seen people drafting; and probably we’ve all seen people cut corners when running. I’m sure someone will invent an aero rear-viewing…
