Thrilled to Announce Link between Youth Sport Trust and Go Faster Food

As a runner eating a healthy, balanced diet, I'd like to think I'm getting enough Vitamin D from being outdoors a lot and eating enough foods rich in Vitamin D. However, this week Government health advisers are urging everyone to eat more foods rich in Vitamin D, such as tuna, salmon and eggs, or take supplements, in...

Let me tell you about Holly. When I first met her, a year 12 student at The Regis School, Bognor Regis, and one of the first students to join our #EatLikeAnAthlete programme, Holly had no concept of how food worked, nor of how to cook. Without this basic knowledge, her typical breakfast was a chocolate bar washed down...

"Hands up who's had breakfast today?"

At a recent workshop with a class of sixth-formers, a paltry few raised their hand. No surprise really. Breakfast is the most frequently skipped meal, with around a third of children and adolescents regularly going without breakfast before school. According to a study of 4326 child...

 A mixed group of Year !0 Catering GCSE students and 6th formers doing PE A Level joined Kate for another succesful delivery of Go Faster Food's Eat Like An Athlete course at Swindon's The Ridgeway School. 

It's a rare occasion and always with a measure of trepidation, that I venture into my teenage son's bedroom. The unknown territory offers new surprises every time ... 

However, yesterday I was greeted to a new poster on the door - Get Fit To Apply.

For the Royal Marine Commandos, nutrition is inextricably linked to trai...

A quick trip up the M5/M6 saw me in Manchester at the amazing state-of-the-art Chill Factore artifical indoor ski slope this weekend giving 'eating for performance' workshops to the British Ski and Snowboard U14, U16 and U21 Development Squads as part of their annual fitness training weekend....

Yesterday I had the pleasure of judging a regional heat of The Rotary Club's Young Chef competition sponsored by our local Clifton Rotary Club and hosted by Redland Green School in Bristol.  

Being asked to judge a competition like this was a great honour, and a first for me!

A number of aspiring, passionate and ve...

“As an athlete, what you eat is integral to successful training and competition. You have to fuel your body with the right foods to make it work how you want it to work”  Lucy Bryan, GB Pole vaulter and Go Faster Food Ambassador (link to Lucy). 

Top 3 #GoFaster Tips for Match Day Success.

1. Would you put diesel in a Fe...

This week's #GoFasterFriday is brought to you with huge joy tinged with not a little sadness.

Those who follow Go Faster Food will know that two of our lovely GoFaster ambassadors have been putting their heart and soul, their absolute everything, into attempting to qualify for Rio. Well last weekend at the British Ath...