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Nutrition Fact Sheets by the AIS

Michael — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:09:34 +0000

To help ease confusion from the many messages to do with athlete nutrition, the experts at the Australian Institute of Sport have prepared a series of fact sheets. The documents represent the latest scientific information about the use of and possible benefit of nutritional supplements including caffeine, creatine, protein, antioxidants and sports drinks, bars and [...]

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Nutrition Fact Sheets by the AIS

Introducing CrackerSports - Athlete Profiling, Resources and Connections

Introducing CrackerSports - Athlete Profiling, Resources and Connections

Michael — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:48:29 +0000

CrackerSports.com is a new online service to accelerate skills learning and development in sport. Currently in beta using the sport of Sailing as a test subject, CrackerSports boasts these features: An online library of filtered and high quality resources providing a one stop point for all skills learning and development resources – including video, [...]

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Nutrition Fact Sheets by the AIS

9 Everyday Super Foods for Athletes

Michael — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:01:13 +0000

These foods are champions when it comes to helping athletes sustain quality training: 1. Avocado – tasty alternative to butter or margarine as a sandwich spread or a snack on its own. Avocado contains 17 vitamins and minerals including vitamins A, C, E and all B vitamins except B12. In potassium, it’s second among plant foods [...]

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Basics of Recovery when Building Muscle

Will — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:37:09 +0000

Building muscle and staying in shape go hand in hand when it comes to fitness. There are common misconceptions like: just purely lifting weights will enhance your muscles in a faster way - that can really hamper your success rate. Throughout my earlier years in fitness training, I thought the more I worked out, the [...]

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Latest Study on Nutritional Recovery from Endurance Exercise

admin — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:42:39 +0000

A research review just published in the highly regarded journal Sports Medicine discusses the optimal way to put energy back into the body after moderate to high intensity endurance exercise. In summarizing the results of a large number of studies the authors concluded that "carbohydrate should be ingested as early as possible in the [...]

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Dynamic Warm-Ups

Andrew — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:48:45 +0000

Like most people you probably do not pay a lot of care or attention to your warm up before exercising. A bit of walk to the front gate before your run or a few arm circles and swings then into the weights session or game of golf/squash or tennis! One of the areas I put a [...]

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How to Get Back to Playing a Sport After a Break

Sandra — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 07:31:05 +0000

It’s a tough break if you have to take a break from the sport you love, more so if you’re sidelined by injury and are not in prime condition to get back into the game. People who love sports know that they’re addictive – it’s not just the adrenaline rush of winning a game, the [...]

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Just a Little Dehydration Affects Mood

Andrew — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:20:58 +0000

Some interesting research encouraging drinking during your workout has been published recently in the Perceptual and Motor Skills Journal. Conducted by Biological Psychologist Kirsten D’Anci at the prestigious Human Nutrition Research Centre at Tufts University, the study found that athletes who consumed zero fluid during an exercise session reported higher levels of both anger and depression [...]

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Skill Acquisition & Falling Off a Windsurfer

Andrew — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:23:51 +0000

Most of my research for this article involved me spending a lot of the summer falling off a windsurfer. My goal was to teach myself a new skill - how to windsurf. It is quite rare as adults we take on the challenge of a mastering a new skill from scratch. When was the [...]

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Instability Training for the Core Muscles

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:00:40 +0000

Exercises using swiss balls and other gym training tools like dura discs and wobble boards are frequently prescribed to help train the core muscles. This instability training is often viewed as a great way to enhance core strength. However, a recent review of the research by Behm et al. 2010 (Appl. Physiol. Metab. Nutr. 35(1): [...]

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