Swimming events can be hectic, demanding and normally spread over multiple days. As a swimmer, you might have one race on day one then three races on day two ranging from 50m up to 400m. The meet may be kind to your race schedule giving you a large amount of time between each race or you may have less than 60 minutes between races. All of this makes nailing your race day nutrition that much more important and equally challenging.

When you hear ‘performance’ do you instantly think of sport? Record breakers, nail biting finals, breakneck speed or phenomenal acts of strength? What if you were to reframe the term ‘performance’ to mean performing activities or tasks to the highest standard, it then becomes individual and not based on the fastest/strongest/most skilful individuals but more on the fastest/strongest/most skilful you can be...

Picture the scene, you’re deep in an event. You’re pushing hard. Your limbs are starting to ache. You can feel the lactate building and you can see the competition ready to power past you…

When it comes to energy, carbohydrates rule supreme as king…

The macronutrient turned buzzword that’s being added on to anything and everything in the supermarket. Yes, you guessed it, protein…

Dietary fats are essential for energy production, cell function, temperature regulation, organ protection, nutrient absorption and hormone production. It would be fair to say, dietary fats are important…

Show me someone who is involved in a sport that doesn’t use caffeine. If you can, I would put money on their performances improving if they consumed it…