Asker Jeukendrup
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"TrainingPeaks helps me to quantify the total weekly load and it helps me to analyze my races afterwards to see where in the next race there will be room for improvement."
- Asker Jeukendrup, Director of the Human Performance Lab, University of Birmingham
Asker Jeukendrup is one of the leading sports nutritionists, he is the Director of the Human Performance lab at the University of Birmingham and in charge of one of the most active sport and exercise research groups. At the age of 35 he became the youngest professor at the University of Birmingham and has received several awards for his academic achievements and contributions to sport and exercise sciences.
Asker is the author of several books including High Performance Cycling and a Textbook on Sports Nutrition in collaboration with Prof Michael Gleeson. Asker has published over 150 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters and has made it his mission to translate the science into practical applications that will benefit people who want to achieve their individual exercise goals.
Learn more about Asker on his website: www.askerjeukendrup.com
10/15/08 - Read an interview on the TrainingPeaks blog with Asker conducted a couple weeks prior to his World Ironman Championship debut in Kona, Hawaii.
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Every year Asker races in a number of duathlons and three to four full or 70.3 Ironman events. However, Asker also works 80 hour weeks and travels much of the time. He is not only a full-time professor of Exercise Metabolism, he is also the Director of the Human Performance Lab at the University of Birmingham, an author and a nutrition consultant to elite athletes and triathlon clubs around the world. Asker's true passion however is applying his research to his own training and racing. So he uses TrainingPeaks in his training to "quantify the total weekly load" and "to analyze my races...to [find]... room for improvement."
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