Posts tagged athlete
The Gut - A guide for athletes

An insight into gut health, it’s importance in our lives, and what we can do to improve our gut health.

In many ways, our gut is part of our identity; totally unique and responsible for many of our initial emotions and feelings. Gut issues can affect our day, how we connect to others and our level of self esteem. Given the power it holds over our wellbeing and performance, it is important that we do everything we can to maximise our gut health.

Primarily, the gut is the process of converting food to fuel, accessing the nutrients needed and handling all the stuff we really do not need. Within the gut is a range of third party bacteria and organisms, helping (or hindering) the breakdown and extraction of the good from the bad in whatever we consume.

What happens when our gut health suffers, and what can be done to prevent and treat this?


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The Power of Goal Setting

There is a lot of talk on fitness related social media and in the public domain about identifying and understanding your goals and reasons why you do what you do. Why do you train? Why do you play your sport? Why do you choose to eat well, track macros or take supplements?

The purpose of this blog is to try to provide some clarity and understanding of goal setting and self reflection, and discuss the positive (and negative) impact it can have on mindset and mental health.

Goal setting and reflection, when done effectively, can be the key to keeping you motivated to train, to push hard and head to the gym even when you may be faced with adversity.


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