Reform: Fuel Your Body for Performance

Due to popular demand this workshop is being run again on Saturday the 26th of Jan at 1pm. (bookings – anna@reformcoach.ie) – there are a few places available. 

In association with Reform Coaching, Beth McCluskey, Food Scientist and ex-professional athlete, will take you through a 3hr session on how to fuel your body to get the most from your training and racing.

Topics Covered
• Optimal protein for recovery, adaptation and repair
• Dietary manipulation strategies – Train Low strategies/fat adaptation strategies
• Current concepts in hydration
• Biochemistry of fatigue
• Dietary nitrate intake
• Vitamin D status in athletes
• Amino acids (b-Alanine and Leucine)
• Immune support
• Antioxidants and phytochemicals
• Inflammation and omega 3 PUFA’s

Overview

“In the run up to the Olympic Games in London 2012 many different and new nutritional strategies aimed at optimizing performance and improving recovery have been investigated across a range of different sports. These recent advances in human performance research have revealed new insights into the many factors that influence how an individual responds to exercise training.

Today many cellular, sub cellular, and molecular mechanisms have been outlined as key to physiological and biochemical responses to exercise. Nutritional intake has been established as having a primary role in the optimal biochemical and physiological responses to exercise.

Response to exercise is highly variable among individuals and it is thought that this variation in exercise response is mediated by the variation in genes and nutrition and by gene-environment interactions. The body’s adaptation to exercise is a response to training and nutritional intake plays a critical role in this response. However training adaptation is also the result of changes in the expression of genes, mediated not only by exercise but by multiple factors, including the interactions between exercise, the components of dietary intake, and genetic variation.

This workshop will evaluate the current research in sports nutrition and nutritional ergogenic strategies and how these strategies can be applied practically to enhance the performance and training adaptations of endurance athletes.” – Beth McCluskey MSC Food Science

Workshop Details
Location: Reform Dublin, 2nd Floor, 2C Main St, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
Time/Date: 1pm Saturday 26th January 2013
Cost: €20 per person

Bookings: anna@reformcoach.ie

Beth McCluskey

Beth McCluskey has had a long and varied sporting career. As a runner she has won many national and regional track and field, cross country and mountain running medals and titles and represented Ireland in these disciplines from 1995 to 2006 including numerous World and European events. From 1999 to 2008 she switched her focus to cycling where she again competed at World and European level in both road and mountain biking. She was a member of Cycling Ireland Olympic Qualifying Squads in 2003 and 2007. She retired from International competition in 2008 after winning a World Masters bronze medal in cross country mountain biking and since then she has focussed on working with athletes of all ages in various aspects of sports nutrition and health. She has worked with elite, junior and age group individuals and with Cycling Ireland, Triathlon Ireland and Athletics Ireland Squads and training camps.

She has also competed in and won many adventure races ranging from 24 hour events requiring navigation to shorter events like WAR and CLEC.

She has an MSc in Food Science and Nutrition from DIT. The combination of this and her academic background in Biochemistry combined with an athletic background in competition and training at the highest level gives her an excellent understanding of nutritional biochemistry and the biochemical basis for sports performance. She is particularly interested in nutritional ergogenics and nutritional strategies for enhancing training adaptations, an area she researched extensively for her thesis.