Your brain needs nutrition for study. It needs to have the right nutrients in order to be able to function properly, let alone optimally. Just as nutrition is important for performance in sport, nutrition for study is just as important when it comes to learning. Let me give you a few dos and don'ts when [...]
The question "Compare the dietary requirements of athletes in TWO sports that have different nutritional needs. Provide relevant examples" Is question 25 in the 2011 HSC PDHPE exam. Below is a sample answer I wrote for this question with a video of commentary on how I wrote it. Compare the dietary requirements of athletes in [...]
This article: Do ice baths work? is written in response to the recent article published in the Telegraph in the UK. This article's title: "Ice baths, treatment of choice for Andy Murray and Mo Farah, do not help post-exercise recovery - new research" seems to claim more than the author of the research and the [...]
"Outline the post-performance dietary considerations of an endurance athlete" is question 25 from the 2014 HSC PDHPE exam. "Outline the post-performance dietary considerations of an endurance athlete" is worth 3 marks. The definition for "outline" is provided in the marking criteria for this question. For 3 marks you need to sketch in general terms the [...]
The HSC PDHPE syllabus asks you to compare dietary requirements of different sports. This comparison includes: pre, during and post performance requirements. In order to compare these dietary requirements I am going to refer to Sports Dietitians Australia and their resources. In this comparison we will be comparing dietary requirements for soccer and gymnastics. Soccer [...]
Nutrition and supplementation were the subject of a recent presentation I did at the ACHPER Stage 6 conference. Now that I have presented, I wanted to write an article that looked at just one (1) image that I used in my presentation - the sports nutrition pyramid (see above). I came across this image during a [...]
The importance of vitamin B for exercise is very under done in HSC PDHPE textbooks. We have a tendency to focus on Iron, Calcium, and the macro nutrients (Carbohydrate, protein, and fat), but we spend little time looking into the importance of vitamins and minerals. I will post further articles looking at other micro nutrients, [...]
This article looks at how nutrition after performance affects recovery and future performances. There are a few key aspects to consider when looking at nutrition after performance and these are: the timing, the type of performance, and the nutrients themselves. The timing There are two phases when nutrition is important post exercise. These are the anabolic phase [...]
There are many questions that relate to supplementation and performance with the most obvious being: do they work? The problem that we have in making this assessment comes with the lack of regulation of supplements (much like the lack of regulation around many complementary and alternative health care). The contents of a supplement vary widely [...]
[raw_html_snippet id="my first ad"] Recovery strategies in sport are various. In HSC PDHPE you need to know different types of recovery strategies, what they are? and how they might benefit the athlete? A recent article in the European Journal of Applied Physiology has discovered the benefits of turmeric (a yellow spice commonly used in Indian [...]