Wee Lun Foo

Foo et al. (2025) Should sports scientists and coaches provide sodium supplementation to professional soccer players? Insights from English premier league players. Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17… Thanks to all supervisors and coauthors @JamesyMorton @nextlvlnut @TesterEmma

Foo et al. (2025) Fueling Soccer Players: A Scoping Review and Audit of Literature Related to Soccer-Specific Guidelines for Carbohydrate Intake @SportsMedicineJ Link: link.springer.com/article/10.100… Thanks to all co-authors @JamesyMorton @TesterEmma @jlAreta @close_nutrition

Our latest FREE PAPER. Great work by ⁦@weelunfoo⁩ ⁦@LJMUSportSci⁩. Research on elite players needed! ⁦@UEFA⁩ Fueling Soccer Players: Scoping Review and Audit of Literature Related to Soccer-Specific Guidelines for Carbohydrate Intake link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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Congrats to @weelunfoo on latest PhD publication, sodium requirements in footballers, thanks to players @SpursOfficial, funders @ScienceinSport and coauthors @nextlvlnut @TesterEmma @close_nutrition @vlad_sabou @LJMUSportSci @LJMU journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Have you ever thought about how your muscles change when you lose weight and keep doing aerobic exercise? We did too, and investigated it. See the preprint for our latest work here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🆕"This review concluded that current CHO guidelines for ⚽️ lack experimental research specific to professional & world-class players" ➡️More field-based experimental trials are required to ensure evidence-based 👉@weelunfoo et al, 2025 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 📂Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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🚨PhD Studentship Opportunity in Nutrition and Football! 🚨 We’re offering a unique opportunity to research Fuelling and Recovery Demands in Professional Senior Soccer Players 🗓Application link below, deadline is 16th April. #PhD #Nutrition #Football #Fuelling #Recovery

First PhD Paper! Professional Male Soccer Players’ Perspectives of the Nutrition Culture Within an English Premier League Football Club link.springer.com/article/10.100… @JamesyMorton @TesterEmma @columcronin @close_nutrition

Our latest free paper: Nutrition Culture in professional football and the Premier League. Great lessons here for practitioners and coaches Congrats to @weelunfoo on first PhD publication and co authors @TesterEmma @columcronin @LJMU @premierleague link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Working together to achieve first class performance 👊 This is the origin story of our partnership with @ScienceInSport 🤝 Watch the full video now! ⤵️

King et al. (2022) The Ergogenic Effects of Acute Carbohydrate Feeding on Resistance Exercise Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis @SportsMedicineJ Link: link.springer.com/article/10.100… #carbohydrate #performance #resistancetraining #nutrienttiming

Morehen et al. (2022) Energy Expenditure of Female International Standard Soccer Players @MSSEonline Link: journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Abst… #energyexpenditure #soccer #football #female #nutrition #performance

Reynolds et al. (2022) A Food First Approach to Carbohydrate Supplementation in Endurance Exercise: A Systematic Review @IJSNEMJournal Link: journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/… #carbohydrate #foodfirst #endurance #nutrition #performance #gastrointestinal

Can I Have My Coffee and Drink It? A Systematic Review & Meta‑analysis to Determine Whether Habitual Caffeine Consumption Affects the Ergogenic Effect of Caffeine @SportsMedicineJ Link: link.springer.com/article/10.100… #caffeine #habitualintake #performance #dose #coffee #nutrition

Bennett et al. (2021) Three weeks of a home-based “sleep low-train low” intervention improves functional threshold power in trained cyclists: A feasibility study @PLOSONE Link: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… #sleeplow #trainlow #carbohydrate #periodisation #endurance #cycling

New Paper! Foo et al. (2022) A Short-Term Low-Fiber Diet Reduces Body Mass in Healthy Young Men: Implications for Weight-Sensitive Sports @IJSNEMJournal Link: journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/… #lowfibre #makingweight #acuteweightloss

Delighted to get this study over the line. It's my pleasure to have the support from an amazing supervisory team (@jlAreta @pugh_jamie @CLESpoSci @JamesyMorton). Many thanks to my colleagues (Jake & Frank) and of course the great participants who did the hard work💪