Dear Performance Nutrition Leaders,
This week: why training camps are the most important testing window of the season, CurraNZ’s move into the mainstream, and what practitioners should be paying attention to now.
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🧠 ON THE GROUND
Warm weather camps are in full swing. And for practitioners, this is the window that matters.
During the season, bandwidth is tight. Camps at least offer time with riders and fewer competing priorities.
New riders get assessed. Sweat rates tested. Body composition benchmarked. Individualised protocols get built from real data rather than guesswork carried over from last year.
Dr. Emily Jevons posted from Team Picnic-PostNL's camp in Calpe this week: 25 body composition measurements and 15 sodium sweat tests in a few days. She also welcomed Henry Lyons as the new Women's team nutritionist.
That's the kind of block it is — diagnostic, operational, foundational.
We've covered Exo Analytics and how testing infrastructure is landing in elite cycling on Insider+.
It's also where new interventions get trialled. A hydration protocol that needs tailoring. A fuelling tool that takes time to bed in.
By February, the race calendar takes over — and the cost of getting it wrong goes up.
The products that get embedded in 2026 are being trialled right now.
📈NEWS
New York Red Bulls open role for Dietitian.
ISENC Conference concludes its 19th edition
Hexis opens role for Nutrition Database Scientist
San Diego Wave FC seek Performance Nutritionist
Scotland Rugby recruiting two Performance Nutritionists
Insider+ releases updated “Coaching in the Field” AI prompts
Fuelling Conversations interview with Tom Coughlin released
Dr. Emily Jevons shares Calpe training camp insights with Team Picnic PostNL
💡PERFORMANCE TECH
CurraNZ just made the Daily Mail.
For performance nutritionists, that sentence alone tells a story. A decade of peer-reviewed research. 60+ clinical studies. And now — mainstream media attention.
The product: New Zealand blackcurrant extract. The mechanism: anthocyanins that widen blood vessels, improve blood flow, enhance fat oxidation, and accelerate recovery.
The research is led by Professor Mark Willems at the University of Chichester.
But what caught our attention isn't the science. It's the adoption.
Healthspan Elite just renewed their All Blacks partnership for 2025 (LINK). James Moran — Head of Nutrition at Team UNO-X — has spoken publicly about using CurraNZ during Tour de France racing blocks (via testimonial). Informed Sport certified across the range.
The Daily Mail piece will drive consumer awareness. Your athletes will ask about it.
CurraNZ isn't a universal performance enhancer. Its strongest value lies in recovery, readiness, heat stress, and multi-day load management.
Check out our full CurraNZ article on Insider+.
