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Now displaying: February, 2020
Feb 14, 2020

In episode 101, David is joined by performance nutritionist Mark Germaine.

 

Mark Germaine is a Performance Nutritionist (SENr) currently working with the Dublin Senior Hurling team, Dublin U20's football team, Dublin U20's hurlers and a number of elite professional boxers, in addition to his role as a researcher in the School of Health and Human Performance in Dublin City University.


He completed his Masters degree in Sport Nutrition from Liverpool John Moores University, where he also picked up the Don MacLaren Award for the research he conducted during his time there.


Finally, Mark is the co-chair for the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Combat Sport Special Interest Group, who put out content as it relates to combat sport and weight cutting, and also host an annual meeting at the annual ACSM event in the USA.


As such, Mark's interest lie in Performance Nutrition and developing nutritional strategies to augment athletic performance, improve athletic recovery, enhancing the adaptive response to training stimuli and weight cutting sports.

Feb 5, 2020

In episode of the podcast, David is joined by Alan Flanagan, John Kiely & Ciaran O'Regan.

The groups discusses the topic of meta-cognition; thinking about how we think.

Topics include; what is science? what is knowledge? what does it mean to be evidence-based? how do we improve our critical thinking ability?

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