If you go to the gym to improve your physical shape you're applauded and seen as dedicated. If you seek out a therapist to work on your mental shape, you should be seen in the same way, dedicated and strong. Let's normalize working on ourselves.

Female athletes are a hot-topic & I’m loving being able to learn so much through both science & application 🏃🏼‍♀️

How do strength & training response vary across the menstrual cycle? Actually, there's no strong evidence that they do, says new review. That means it's "premature" to issue general cycle-specific training guidance. Let indiv. experience be your guide. outsideonline.com/health/trainin…

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath fastcompany.com/3062989/50-rea…

An unforgettable weekend in the Outback for the Leonora Golden Gift 💫 . Great to see such positive community engagement , particularly from the kids . Big thank you to all of the event organisers 🙌🏼

Breaking my Twitter hiatus with our latest publication as part of my PhD in Sports Medicine looking at factors influencing the hepcidin response to exercise. Huge team effort Alannah McKay Andrew Govus @PetePeeling Louise Burke MacKillopInstitute link.springer.com/article/10.100…

"I just won a stage of the Tour de France, mate!" 🤣🤣 🇦🇺 Jai Hindley with the most Aussie interview ever. Fitting. #TDF2023 #sbstdf #couchpeloton

Jakob Ingebrigtsen will enter World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 fresh off of two pbs, but should he be a little bit nervous? Remember, they don't run the 1500 in lanes and our research reveals the fastest man in the field has only won 4 of the last 12 global 1500 finals. letsrun.com/news/2023/07/j…

Exciting things happening at Australian Catholic University and MacKillopInstitute! We will soon have a state of the art metabolic chamber to expand on the work being done in the Exercise and Nutrition Research Program. acu.edu.au/about-acu/news…

An Australia-wide cycling race series for females !! - what’s not to love?! Love your work Ella Smith 😍

Iconic 💛💚

We are recruiting for our next iron- related project in MELBOURNE. We are looking for women with low iron stores (criteria below) ⬇️ Find out if you are eligible here: redcap.acu.edu.au/surveys/?s=9PE… Please share widely! MacKillopInstitute ACU Higher Degree Research Australian Catholic University

Female, living in Melbourne & wondering if you have low iron? 👇🏽

With only a few days until October 14, every conversation about voting Yes for the Voice matters. Whether that’s a call to a loved one, a chat at work, or knocking on doors like the hundreds of people at Queanbeyan today.

It’s not too late to sign up!! A first-of-a-kind study specifically for female athletes!! Happening this November and open to anyone in Australia 🇦🇺 Click here for more info redcap.acu.edu.au/surveys/?s=DC7…

🚨Excited to see our latest online ahead of print in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 😀 Female Athlete Research Camp: A unique model for conducting research in high performance female athletes A collaboration between MacKillopInstitute Australian Institute of Sport Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance & NRL journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/abst…

Looking forward to Flagstaff AZ with my 1500m runners, Cam Myers and Jye Edwards; along with some talented athletes, coaches and Australian Athletics support staff. Pre-camp data on training zones from the AIS physiology team SportAustralia today was very useful.

it's always an absolute pleasure to work with Cam Myers & Dick Telford at Australian Institute of Sport . Cam's senior international debut 🔜! rb.gy/nq9clm

One more time for the people in the back… We have no evidence to support menstrual cycle phase-based training OR nutrition! Instead, we can support our female athletes as individuals, where their hormonal profile is just one of many factors to consider 🩸

Honoured to be awarded paper of the year in EJSS for 2024! Our findings from the inaugural Female Athlete Research Camp demonstrated no measurable impact of ovarian hormones on physical performance. Huge team effort on this one 💪 Full paper here pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38877892/