“BOOZE” was the rather succinct message I received from one reader. And yes, I agree, why use many words when just 1 will suffice? I hope my interpretation of your message (is just 1 word technically a message?) was right, and that you’d like this week’s ‘cheat sheet’ to be about the impact booze can have on your health, or more specifically on your sporting performance? Well, let me tell you, the findings were enough to sober me up. I think we’re all probably aware of the bi

Thank you, thank you lovely reader (you know who you are) for your brilliant comment following my Democratising Nutrition blog. You raised the question of fresh vs tinned – very pertinent, polemical, and really interesting to research. If anyone does have a topic they’d like to discuss, then please do so in the comments box below, just under this blog. I’ll happily divert form my planned powwows to confabulate (“converse informally, chat”. Gotta love that word) over somethin

I’m above it. Advertising falls on deaf ears with me. I’m “immune to the seductions of pseudoscience”. Or so I’d like to think. But the truth is, despite a career in advertising, I’m as gullible as a fish (I can’t bring myself to deliver the punch line). Nor can I bring myself to divulge just how recently it was that I finally started to question my long held belief that ‘A Mars a day’ really does ‘help you work, rest and play’. Yet another moment of self-awareness (and disap

Summertime: synonymous with strawberries. For some maybe. For others, the simple strawberry is now scorned upon. These people spit on my strawberries, and instead can talk of nothing but the glorious goji berry. I mention vegetable oil in their company, it’s like I’ve blasphemed. Coconut oil is the holy grail. This, readers, is folly. It’s farcical. It’s food fads. And expensive ones at that. A lot of these foods are marketed as ‘superfoods’. However, the term "superfood" act

“SHUT UP”. “Just please S-H-U-T. U-P”. On my more insecure days, I swear that’s what he’s thinking. I’m paranoid that’s the real reason he’s asked me to write this. He figures that if he gives me some air time, in the form of a blog, to just talk, talk, talk, talk and talk…maybe I’ll focus a little more in my training sessions with him?? Maybe… But then on my more confident days, I think perhaps he’s asked me to write a blog because he sees someone on a journey that might jus

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