Strength for Endurance with Pip Taylor
In many endurance sports there’s a focus on being light, and lean – with the thought this equates to speed and better performance – and there’s an element of truth...
Race Day Fuel with Pip Taylor
Got a race coming up? Plan out your race day breakfast to fuel your way to your best performance and avoid GI issues. The pre-race breakfast is your last opportunity...
The journey to PILLAR Performance
I’ve been officially retired from rugby and in business for about 12 months now, launching PILLAR Performance in mid-2021. There’s a lot I still miss about footy, it was the...
Magnesium and your recovery
Magnesium is an essential mineral playing vital roles in many processes and functions for health as well as performance including muscle contraction, relaxation and energy production...
Nutrition 101: Macro-nutrition and Micro-nutrition
Macros are the big players in sports nutrition talk. There’s only the three of them – carbs, fat and protein – and you’d be forgiven for thinking that the holy...
Fuelling vs Fasting
Fuelling vs Fasting – When training fasted is appropriate and when you want to fuel up.Fasted or fuelled. It seems to be a never-ending debate amongst athletes and fitness enthusiasts....
Inflammation – when it’s ‘good’ and when it’s not
Inflammation. It’s a word we hear a lot and usually with negative connotations. The truth is a little more complex than that, and as athletes it’s worthwhile understanding the key...
Lockdown Nutrition with Pip Taylor
Lockdown. It’s a frustrating time that can throw our life – and training schedules – into complete chaos. However, putting the right measures in place on what you can control...
Cold weather, altitude and winter sports nutrition
Training and competing in the cold is more than just bundling up in some extra layers. There are some extra challenges to keep in mind, including nutritional practices, both to...
Eating your way through injury
If you’ve been any sort of athlete for more than a minute, you’ve no doubt dealt with a niggle, full-blown injury or just the fear of one cropping up and...
Nutrition and short-term recovery vs long term adaptions
Any athlete who has trained hard will be familiar with that residual muscular pain, the type that ranges from ’oh so good’ to ‘oh my god no’ depending on who...
Getting your hydration right
Maintaining hydration is always important for optimal health and vitality, particularly for those who are highly active, given the significant amounts of fluids that are lost through sweat during exercise....
High-performance sleep. Are you getting enough?
Sometimes if you really want to step up your game and take performance to the next level, you really need to commit – to sleeping in occasionally. Or at the...
Certified products with Informed Sport
Athletes competing at the highest level are bound by strict anti-doping rules that prevent the use of a range of substances either for health, safety or performance reasons. An unintentional...
Food, supplementation and optimising performance
You often hear that a well-balanced diet will provide all the vitamins and minerals you need to support health and performance. Without doubt a solid food focused nutrition plan lays...
OptiMSM® - how does it work?
The PILLAR Performance difference? Our ingredient selection. We use patented, clinical strength ingredients from across the global to help fuel your training program...
NEM®: Egg shell membrane and your joints
MOTION ARMOUR is a first-to-market combination of patented ingredients NEM®, 5-LOXIN® along with curcumin...
