Downhill mountain bike racing requires total body strength, power, and endurance as races last up to five minutes often requiring intermittent bursts of peak wattage output to the pedals while navigating a course littered with obstacles battering the rider with high g-forces requiring immense upper body strength (Hurst et al., 2018). Grip strength endurance has been shown to be the second most influential element of the rider with riding skill being the most important (Chidle

Research Article:   Lopes, L. R., Machado, D. E., Goes, R. A., Amaral, M. V. G., Dias, F., Tavares, V., Medeiros, R., & Perini, J. A. (2025). Implications of tendinopathy on the sports career: Epidemiological and clinical profile of high-performance athletes. Physical Therapy in Sport , 72 , 59–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ptsp.2025.02.003 Application   With 10-50% of elite athletes having a chronic tendinopathy, what can be done to identify and manage risk factors? The nota

Research article citation:   Wang, W., Wu, D., Wang, H., Zhang, Z., Jiang, X., Li, S., Shi, Y., & Gao, X. (2024). Acute Effects of Breath-Hold Conditions on Aerobic Fitness in Elite Rugby Players. Life (Basel, Switzerland) , 14 (8), 917-. https://doi.org/10.3390/life14080917 Let's get right to it. Straight to application on why having half a dozen breath holds during an easy aerobic warmup could supercharge your VO2max transiently for instant benefits in subsequent training

Endurance sports have a risk of the athletes developing intentionally or unintentionally LEA (low energy availability) which has higher prevalence in females, but should we be monitoring males, especially youth males for relative energy deficiency in sport (aka RED-S). An interesting study examined the special energy analysis of youth cyclists in season which occurs during hotter weather for possibility of LEA. By definition LEA is when daily consumption of <30kcal/ kg fat-fr

Over a decade ago I began to experiment with time-restricted feeding. Initially it was due to chronic GI and throat issues. For several years for most of the day I felt like something was stuck in my throat and randomly have deep painful pressure in my chest deep to the sternum. For about two years I visited several doctors like ENT’s and GI specialists, even an had and endoscopy and barium swallow with no findings. To treat the symptoms without any definite, understand or di

The narrative review by Wohlgemuth et al. (2021) explains most research for nutrition and sports performance is on males instead of females and it is females who have a variety of fluctuating nutrition and metabolic changes depending on their cycle. For example, eumenorrheic women metabolize fat and protein at a higher percentage in the luteal phase compared to the follicular stage. Basal metabolic rate (BMR) and training recovery rate/ capacities also vary across the cycle.