Adeline C
​“I started consulting Joel 8 months before my first attempt at a 50 miles ultra marathon. During the whole time, Joel has worked closely with my own training programme from base training (strength training phase) and right to planning race day hydration and nutrition strategy. It has been an enlightening experience and Joel has helped me understand and optimise my nutrition and tweaking my plan to succeed on race day.
I wanted to lose weight as a side goal as my weight kept creeping up with perimenopause. With increased protein and fibre intake, Joel has helped me with tailoring my macro nutrients intake that syncs with my training load. I gained muscles but still didn’t lose fat but maintained weight. But the stark difference was the quicker recovery from intense training sessions, less muscle soreness and so far no injuries. I felt quite robust and experimenting with the different recommended products on the longer training runs helped with managing energy levels and avoiding gastrointestinal issues. The food diary got me tracking my nutrition and identified food that works during training. I am quite keen to reduce ultra processed food so we balanced my race day plan to incorporate some real food with the usual quick energy release products like gels, chews and carb drinks.
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On race day, the hydration and nutrition strategy all went to plan. No GI issues. I’ve never run beyond 57km before but although fatigue starts to set past 65km, I started to pick the pace back up and had enough in the tank for a sprint finish.
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This would not have happened without a well thought out and practiced hydration and nutrition plan and Joel’s help and advice had been fundamental to my successful race.
Joel, thanks so much for all your help, support and much appreciated practical advice over the last few months. ”
Ed B​
​“Before working with Joel my nutrition knowledge was extremely limited, and after a few short sessions he had me caught up on all the basics. This was particularly helpful for identifying the nutrition I need on a daily basis, and how I could efficiently, and cheaply make minor changes to my diet to tailor it better to my training regime. We then dived deeper into much more specific topics, the intricacies of race fuelling, and how and when I should be fuelling my training runs. Joel is amazing at dispelling misinformation on controversial topics, he draws balanced and tailored conclusions based on the most up-to-date literature.
I've applied Joel's advice in numerous ways including; increasing my vitamin D intake, making sure my protein goals are met, fueling at the right time for the right runs, and most significantly getting my race nutrition dialled, both in the buildup and during the race. Joel has helped me work all of this, and more, around a busy schedule, tight budget, and a social life.
It's hard to quantify the impact of each change I've made to my nutrition, but I have noticed since taking on these changes, I've felt stronger and healthier as a whole, I recover quicker from my training, and I have been much more successful at avoiding and dispelling illness. I have also seen race results improve, as I prepare much more effectively, and benefit from more consistent, and higher quality training.”
Luke B​
​“I had a call with Joel before my first 100km ultra marathon to discuss nutrition and hydration, something I never took seriously on previous races and boy am I glad I did! Joel explained the science behind all the nutrition & hydration in an easy understandable way. But more importantly he helped me make a nutritional plan for my race that worked for me. It was super helpful to be able to talk through with someone qualified and experienced in this field as there is so much misinformation online. Getting a bespoke nutrition and hydration plan was a game changer and would 100% recommend (ended up coming 19th).”