Personalised Nutrition for events and performance

Personalised Sports Nutrition for performance

Effective, personalised nutrition is a decisive ingredient in sports performance and long-term athlete health/longevity. After all, how can you optimally perform and maximise your potential, without the correct type and sufficient volume of fuel and balanced hydration, relevant to your training and daily life outputs? As much as you love beautiful frames, wheels (as do we), the latest ‘super’ trainers, ‘tech’ and working on getting into a productive mindset to perform – ultimately, it is energy derived through appropriate fuelling that will get you through muddy fields, shooting gaps in trees, round that track, over mountains and across that line, not (just) mango coloured hubs/carbon plates and pure grit! Carefully crafted training schedules can result in unfulfilled promise and injury without appropriate nutritional planning and athlete education to match and augment their content. Fuelling for the work required is the mantra - a simple statement but one that is of highly significant importance.

Professional sports nutrition isn't only for the elite racer

Sports nutrition can be a confusing topic for participants of endurance sports. Delving into associated literature/media can yield confusion with contradictory messages often within the same front and back cover. Which advice to follow and how to personally apply it? In a world of X and Instagram, the view that holds current sway is often the one that shouts and campaigns the loudest as opposed to the one focused on the most robust evidence. MdV Sports Nutrition exists as your guide and mentor through the conflicting messenging following a sensible evidenced path, as opposed to sensationalised ‘theory’

MDV Sports Nutrition and Andrew’s background:

MdV Sports Nutrition provides evidence-based, personalised nutritional support and education/mentoring to endurance athletes - specialising in supporting cyclists, runners, duathletes, triathletes, adventure racers and explorers of all abilities to PARTICIPATE in events, COMP(L)ETE (in) personal adventures and IMPROVE racing performance.

Andrew holds an MSc in Applied Sports Nutrition and was previously sports nutritionist to Experza Pro CX, Team Starcasino, Helen Wyman Cycling Centre and Matrix Pro Fitness Cycling Teams as well as working with individual riders across multiple professional/elite teams and mentoring/athlete support programmes through his ‘Fuelling Your Adventures’ monikor. Most notably supporting Helen Wyman (multiple British and European Cyclocross Champion) to achieve multiple World Cup podiums and to enhance her post-retirement rider support programmes.

Andrew’s work has involved the production of in-depth individualised and team nutritional strategies for post/pre-season periods, training camps, day-to-day training, appropriate and evidenced ergogenic aid (supplementation) schedules, full season race programmes and even Grand Tour plans (Giro d’Italia Women). In addition to working to prevent Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S), provide anti doping education and monitor body compostition (ISAK Level 2).

Other work to date includes:

• Nutritional strategies for ultramarathon runners and ultracyclists undertaking very challenging events in extreme environments such as ‘Badwater’ in Death Valley and ‘Tour of Mont Blanc - UTMB’ in the alps.
• Individualised training and race day nutrition plans for Ironman competitors, GB Age Group Triathletes and Commonwealth Games multi-sport athletes.
• Provision of nutritional strategies/advice/planning to the Lake Baikal 2018 expedition to Siberia (30 day unsupported 700km trek in -10 to – 30 degrees Celsius).
• Provision of nutritional plans to support injury rehabilitation to physiotherapy clinics.