HPX 2024 event to examine the impact of nutrition on athlete health and performance
By Joe McCarthy
Sport Ireland Institute HPX Nutrition 2024 is just around the corner. This event will explore the theme ‘Impactful Nutrition: What Matters for Performance’ and is sure to be of great interest to sports and active nutrition professionals.
HPX 2024, held in partnership with the National Dairy Council, will examine if we fully recognise and utilise nutrition’s impact on athlete health and performance. Although research in sports nutrition has grown, traditional measures such as body composition and hydration status sometimes miss important underlying details.
By sharing knowledge, uncovering research gaps, and exploring innovative approaches, HPX 2024 aims to maximise the positive impact of nutrition on athletic performance.
Through expert discussions and athlete insights, attendees will gain a valuable understanding of high-performance nutrition and recovery strategies.
The multidisciplinary approach, featuring reflections on the Paris Games and networking workshops, will equip attendees with the knowledge to harness the power of nutrition, recovery, wearable technology, and data-driven methods to elevate athlete performance.
Speakers
The event will be chaired by Giles Warrington, Head of Department and Professor of Human Performance and Innovation in the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences (PESS) at the University of Limerick.
The conference will feature expert insights from Dr Ben Cousins, Head of Academy Sport Science at Premier League football club Brentford, who will outline how research and data is being used to optimise athlete performance.
Health and performance nutritionist and founder of Bridge Nutrition Laura Kealy and Niamh Mallon, Niamh is a Galway Camogie player and sports science performance nutritionist at ORRECO. The pair will be discussing the challenges and barriers to measuring beyond traditional metrics.
Laura Mahony, who works as a Performance Nutritionist providing support to Ireland’s elite athletes at Sport Ireland Institute and supported a very successful Team Ireland at Paris Olympic Games, will be exploring the practicalities of nutrition and its impact beyond the data.
Matthew Hooks, who works as a sports nutritionist at the Sport Ireland Institute, will be outlining the realities of what’s involved for elite athletes in terms of recovery.
David Dunne will be giving a presentation titled ‘Bridging the Gap: High-Performance Applied Research for Real-World Impact’. David is a seasoned Performance Nutritionist with over a decade of applied experience in elite sport.
Dr Marco Altini will be joining HPX2024 remotely, discussing the importance of wearables and how they can help athletes make informed decisions about their training, nutrition and recovery.
There will be multi-disciplinary panel discussion around the importance of nutrition and how it fuels success. The panel will be made up of Dr Paul Gaffney, the Lead Consultant in High Performance Sport Clinical Psychology at Sport Ireland Institute and Head of Psychology for Team Ireland for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Paul will be joined by Dr Antonia Rossiter, who is a Senior Performance Physiologist with the Sport Ireland Institute. The panel will also be joined by Dr Paul Fuller and Cliodhna O’Connor.
When: 9.15am-16:15pm, Thursday, October 10, 2024
Where: The Sport Ireland Campus Conference Centre
Tickets: Purchase your tickets here.