David

Doctor. Athlete. Husband.
Proud owner of two spoiled cats.
UCT ESSM👩‍🎓
---Exercise is medicine---

[Hal Higdon @higdonmarathon]

Do you want to run faster? The key to improvement is consistency. More than any fancy training schedule featuring intervals, tempo runs or hill repeats. Just run day after day, week after week, year after year at a level where you do not become injured. #RunWithHal #RunFast

[David @deklerk_a]

@sweatscience @globeandmail Any link to the actual study?

[Asker Jeukendrup @Jeukendrup]

Are you confused by the science reporting in many popular media? 😔🤪

[jamiegiven @jamiegiven]

The smell of the sea mixed with the wood burning sauna is in the air and that's the smell of Finnish summer.

[British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) @BJSM_BMJ]

RESILIENCE: One of my colleagues, in the heat of the battle—deadlines all around her, emails me. "My laptop will be MIA for the next day or so as I inadvertently let my 2yo daughter water the keyboard like a plant” #COVIDlife #PhDChat @jenheemstra (PS, it was not Jen!)

[David @deklerk_a]

Dismiss the mystery. 👐👐👐

[Asker Jeukendrup @Jeukendrup]

Myth busting: the alkaline diet https://t.co/5PK2NibnB0

[Runner's World SA @runnersworldza]

T-minus 1 day! For those of you furiously mapping out your 5km radius, this will help you! > https://t.co/1Go5w24ZYF

[David @deklerk_a]

I'm in the RUNNING to WIN a #Suunto7 smartwatch in the @Suunto_Fitness @TRAILza #competition #giveaway. Get your entry in too --> https://t.co/EDhRwUZ1TS #Suunto

[David @deklerk_a]

I'm in the RUNNING to WIN a #Suunto7 smartwatch in the @Suunto_Fitness @TRAILza #competition #giveaway. Get your entry in too --> https://t.co/EDhRwUZ1TS #Suunto

[TRAIL magazine 🇿🇦 @TRAILza]

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ENTER 👉🏽 https://t.co/MSeLAcpcET

GOOD LUCK!

Suunto 7 has 79 modes inc #trailrunning.
It is a #smartwatch AND sports watch. ❤️

#SuuntoSA #competition #giveaway #Suunto

[Ross Tucker @Scienceofsport]

Note the final paragraph of this correspondence to Lancet. The “ability to endure” is exactly the point of most doping, no matter the type. It’s a strangely ‘orphaned’ conclusion in a letter that doesn’t really say much beyond “We hope" (via @EwonSprokler) https://t.co/eevyEDZx5D

[David @deklerk_a]

@DrAseemMalhotra @MensHealthUK Part of problem with nutrition is magazines publishing click bait-y titles. Grab attention because they suggest things that you thought were otherwise. Publishing a cool, incorrect article just for attention is not right. Misleads people who do not know how to critique evidence.

[Bram Tankink @bramtankink]

Yesterday I asked 6 riders why they throw their litter into nature. They all appologised. A rider came up to me and told me he kept all litter since I told him. A lot of riders already do keep it. It’s the responsibility of every rider to do so. Don’t waste our nature and sport!

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

My favorite coaching workouts are like todays:
-No watches
-Disclose one rep at a time.
-I don't pre-plan the workout, use the goal of the session to guide on the spot.

Athletes learn what they're capable of. I learn to read athletes fatigue and let that guide the workout.

[David @deklerk_a]

#NewProfilePic

[Dr Aseem Malhotra @DrAseemMalhotra]

Given recent low carb shortens lifespan & ‘coconut oil is pure poison’ unscientific nonsense associated with Harvard a very timely reminder of the corporate capture of medical education and its threat to public health. Via @nytimes
https://t.co/iX3LP5GGw3

[Tim Noakes @ProfTimNoakes]

Challenge for every medical school across globe: Whose interests to serve? Health of the people? Or financial health/viability of the medical school? To serve the first, faculty must teach that key driver of chronic disease is nutrition and treatment is nutrition. Not drugs

[David @deklerk_a]

@TelkomZA Do you buy out contracts?

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

#Oscars: Leonardo Di Caprio wins 'Best Actor' for #TheRevenant https://t.co/m50w6juNOD

[David @deklerk_a]

And Leo takes it! #Oscars2016