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Dear Performance Nutrition Leaders,
This week: a WorldTour nutritionist interview, the latest news, and a tart cherry shot with magnesium.
💡 EXPERT OPINION
Sophie Conroy is a Performance Nutritionist at Tudor Pro Cycling, working with the race riders and with the team's development squad.
Speaking on the Roadman Cycling Podcast, she shared some nuggets around fuelling elite athletes.
"Someone could still be a healthy weight and they could be still in low energy availability," she says. "If you're not taking enough energy on the bike, you're risking underfuelling as well."
On weight loss she is flat about where the deficit does not come from. "You always protect the session." If an athlete is training four days a week, "this is not where you pull the calories from", and "it shouldn't be carbohydrates if you're trying to fuel the bike."
Asked about compressed feeding windows, she acknowledges the research exists: "I wouldn't be putting my hat on anything enough that I'd feel confident in telling an athlete to do it."
Before bloods, the flags she watches are resting heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep, training quality and libido. "If you’re an amateur, you're not going to get bloods every 3 months like we do in the world tour."
Watch the full interview →
📈NEWS
Xendurance launched Globs, its first gummy format
Nottingham Forest are hiring an Academy Nutritionist
Martijn Redegeld appointed as Head of Nutrition at Lidl-Trek
Paulien Daenen appointed performance nutritionist at SK Beveren
Brighton & Hove Albion are hiring an Academy Performance Nutritionist
University of Michigan is hiring a Senior Associate Director of Football Nutrition
USA Wrestling named Momentous its official creatine and protein supplier
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💡PERFORMANCE TECH
Tart cherry has been on the recovery shelf for a decade. What keeps changing is the format.
Cheribundi has put its sleep formulation into a 2oz shot — 59ml, the brand's smallest pack to date.
The base is 100% Montmorency tart cherry concentrate, which Cheribundi puts at 60-plus cherries a shot. The ingredient list is three items long: tart cherry juice, tart cherry juice concentrate, malic acid.
Per shot: 23g carbohydrate, 20g total sugars, 1g protein, 45mg sodium, 320mg potassium.
The nutrition panel lists 320mg of magnesium glycinate.
There is no added melatonin, and that is deliberate — it separates this shot from the rest of Cheribundi's sleep range. For practitioners working where melatonin is prescription-only, that removes a real problem in the UK.
