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Mark Wolff

Nutrition Expert, Fitness Freak, Health Guru, Endurance Coach, Wellness Mentor, Triathlete, Physiologist, Writer, Human Being

“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.”

October 17, 2013

Every day I work with so many different people from all walks of life, who all have different backgrounds and very different goals. Each has an opinion and generally most become rigid in their habitual ways. This is especially true when it comes to my favorite subject nutrition. It’s so true that old habits are so hard to break, but even more so when we do try to break them very often it’s the good habits that are broken and the bad ones that […]

“If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.”

October 7, 2013

Recently I have been receiving a lot of questions on training and racing nutrition. My last blog was focused on becoming more fat efficient, keeping your fuel intake to a minimum and adapting the body to using its natural fat stores as a predominant source of fuel in an endurance session. It’s an awesome position to be in when you can just get up and go long and not worry so much about fuelling yourself. As mentioned previously in sessions under 2 […]

“With all thine offerings thy shalt offer salt”

September 15, 2013

This quote is a famous text straight out of the bible. In biblical times all sacrificial offerings had to include salt. This was a covenant conceived between the Israelite’s and God. In today’s times the sacrificial salt offerings have reappeared in a huge margin in the sports industry where an athlete feels if he does not consume a certain amount of salt during an event he will become the sacrificial offering along route. The energy drink providers have certainly ingrained that into […]

Minimalistic Fuelling

September 9, 2013

As far back as I can remember its always been very rare to cycle or run with a group of athletes who don’t have some form of colored drink in their water bottles or some spare change for that awesome sugar stop at the petrol station at around the half way mark. It seems that dependency on some sort of fuelling has not become just a necessity, but also the norm and I battle to find an athlete that even has the confidence […]

“Life is a tragedy of nutrition”

September 1, 2013

That is  quite a statement made by Arnold Ehret but so true. If there is one thing that is consistent in life its that we eat.  We eat & drink for so many different reasons for desire, survival, delight, energy, immunity, health, comfort and celebration. Whatever the reason we make a decision on a food and consume it. In my opinion most food selections are emotionally challenged or challenging, you know its not good for you but you don’t care, you know […]

“A good archer is not known by his arrows but by his aim”

August 24, 2013

  To live a life with direction and purpose one has to set goals. It is not good enough to take a couple of steps which will one day ultimately lead to a goal, but every single step and decision you make will need to be a goal itself. Small goals & baby steps ultimately lead to long term achievements. As a health, nutrition, fitness and wellness coach I frequently get approached by various kinds of people with completely unique goals, seeking […]

LCHF friendly pancake meal (Gluten,Wheat & Dairy Free) :-)

August 21, 2013

  This is an awesome recipe on days where you just feel like a treat, snack or something of change but yet keep to your diet goals. I put this together to give you a nice simple and tasty meal which will keep you on the right path 🙂 Ingredients: 1 cup Lupin Flour (if you cannot get it try almond, coconut or soya flour) 2/3 eggs, I use 3 eggs to raise the protein/fat content and give it a little more […]