Amy Robinson

In many elite sports, it is considered common-place to manipulate one’s body weight and composition prior to a competition or tournament.  This is typically achieved through a combination of acute and chronic practises which involve a state of negative energy balance and dehydration, commonly known as “drying out”.  These strategies...

An inability to be able to pace yourself can be deleterious to one’s performance, as an individual must be able to carefully select the appropriate distribution of efforts as to avoid falling behind in a race.  Originally, the capacity to do so was thought to be controlled by a mechanistic...

Caffeine is commonly used as an ergogenic aid by many athletes due to the almost unequivocal support in the literature on the beneficial impacts of ingesting caffeine on submaximal performance.  Its effects have been found to improve upon many paradigms including aerobic, anaerobic and muscular strength through the enhancement of...