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Megan Gray

There’s no better way to ensure that your race day performance is optimal than having a sound nutrition plan that has been tried and tested in practice and refined to suit your personal requirements.

Working with Elvia for 4 weeks prior to Ironman 70.3 Danang and 6 weeks prior to Ironman Subic Bay gave me incredible confidence that my race day output would reflect the endless hours of training I had invested.

Elvia’s dietary overview and insightful nutrition tips also ensured that I recovered from each training session as quickly as possible ensuring that I was ready to roll day after day.

I couldn’t be happier with the outcome of either race, smashing my previous personal bests and securing a slot to Kona.

If you are frustrated by a lack of progress, plateauing with your fitness or tired of producing lackluster results on race day I cannot recommend highly enough investing in a nutrition progamme with Elvia – I guarantee it will be the missing link to your best performance yet!

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Nutrition Recommendation for Female Endurance Runners

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Body weight/composition has always been one of the main concerns of any endurance athlete, male or female. Being leaner and lighter is often associated with improved performance, especially in running.The “Female Athlete Triad”, encompassing one or more manifestations of restrained eating, menstrual dysfunction and poor bone health is relatively common among female endurance athletes with varying degrees of severity.

Many female athletes, most often unknowingly, fail to obtain appropriate energy intake and will function in a low energy state.  Low energy availability – when energy intake is too low to meet the body’s energy need due to increasing demand from heavy training schedule coupled with restrictive eating or poor nutrition recovery often leads to a significant negative energy balance.

A significant negative energy balance becomes of concern when it affects health and performance. 
Reduction in metabolic rate, increase risk of illness and injury (which in severe cases often leads to hormonal imbalances), menstrual dysfunction and suboptimal bone health are some of the negative consequences of chronic energy deficit.
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Mohammed AndyHardy

My name is Mohammed Andyhardy. I sought Elvia’s expertise after a series of lackluster performance for middle and long course triathlon races.

Her advice has helped me attain a personal best time of 5:11:16 for IM70.3 Taiwan 2018. This is an improvement of 34 minutes and I am pleased to say that she has been instrumental in cobbling together a solid race nutrition strategy.

Elvia’s advice is based on careful analysis of athlete’s prior race experience, calorie intake and thoughtful application of scientific research. Because she is herself a triathlete, I felt that her advice bears significant bearing because it comes from race experience.

She provided a detailed list of athlete tasks to rehearse the race day fueling plan in the weeks leading to race day and adjusted the plan depending on how I felt based on weekly feedback. By practising my nutrition plan in advance, it gave me confidence and took out the guess work on what to eat or do during race day.

I am impressed by Elvia’s professionalism and am looking forward to working with her again to fine tune my nutrition and recovery strategy.