Recovery, Nutrition and Fitness Advice for Athletes
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How to build and maintain muscle
How do I build muscle? How can I build muscle with dietary supplements like collagen protein? Everyone wants to know how to build muscle and it’s a really insightful question and one we get asked quite a lot. When we set out to make our supplements for example, we wanted...
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Sports Nutrition Tips for the Winter Months
We are continuing the winter theme here at U Perform to continue to help our U Perform family prepare and perform when the elements are against us – and when our training gets tough too! There’s simply no stopping Team U Perform! The first thing to understand about exercising over...
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How is collagen absorbed by the body?
We get asked a lot of questions about nutrition, collagen and the science behind our collagen formulations here at U Perform and we make it our mission to answer every single one. But sometimes, a few lines just doesn’t quite cut it. One of the most popular questions or concerns...
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Your Complete Protein Guide
You can never have too much protein, right? But how much protein do I actually need for optimal muscle growth & muscle mass maintenance? The recommended daily intake for protein is 0.36 grams per pound of body weight. If you're less active, the recommendation drops by a bit, but if...
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Fuelling For Performance
What do we mean when we say fuelling for performance? Well, like a car, the human body needs fuel to function and the right amount and type of fuel is equally important in humans as it is in cars. For us, food is our fuel. Everything we eat and drink...
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Why Active Collagen is a daily requirement
Read this if you want to know why collagen supplements are the right choice for you 👇 Can one 30ml collagen gel sachet taken daily really make that much difference to your performance and recovery? Well, we absolutely think so… the next generation of sports performance and recovery supplements is...
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What are collagen peptides?
Collagen is collagen right? WRONG! We can confirm that not all collagen AND collagen supplements are made equal and we are going to tell you exactly why. Keep reading to find out… But before we get to that… did you know that there are upwards of 16 different types of...
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The role of collagen in the body
What is collagen? Where is it found in the body? Isn’t that a beauty product? These are some of the many questions we receive when people discover the U Perform range and today we are going to help answer these and to show you just how important collagen is for...
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What is Sports Injury Prevention?
Earlier this week, we started the discussion around sports injuries; what are they, how they happen and how they can affect us when they do. And unfortunately they probably will for most of us. We also introduced a couple of simple things that we could all do daily to help...
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What are Sports Injuries?
No one wants an injury to put a stop to their fitness gains right? And I’m sure you have asked yourself, are sports injuries common enough for them to actually impact me in the first place? Injuries are something that happen to everyone else, not me surely... Unfortunately for all...
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