Brisbane Sport & Health Promotion Services

19/05/2026

Understand what you put in your body 🙌

19/05/2026

Cycling provides so many benefits and opportunities! If you’re just starting out and need some one to help with your confidence send me a message and I will get you on track 🚴🏻‍♂️

17/05/2026

Thanks to all the volunteers, let’s celebrate and encourage more people to volunteer, it’s great for our mental health 🙌

Happy National Volunteer Week!

This week, we celebrate and thank the 9.5 million volunteers across Australia who give to communities every day.

Volunteers are the heart of Australian communities. They support people through challenges, create connection and belonging, strengthen local communities, and help essential services and organisations thrive.

2026 is a defining year for volunteering, and throughout National Volunteer Week, we are proud to celebrate the people and communities at the heart of it.

To every volunteer across Australia, thank you.

Let’s make 2026 Your Year to Volunteer.

Join the celebration this week and tag a volunteer in the comments to show your thanks.

08/05/2026

12/04/2026

Come cycling with me 🙌

Discover 10 of the biggest cycling benefits for ladies and see why the physical and mental benefits of cycling for women are so great.

09/04/2026

Check out BQ’s learn to cycle courses 🙌

07/04/2026

April 11th & 12th 2026 🚴🏻‍♀️

06/04/2026

Check out this article 🙌

Imagine you are in the middle of a marathon, and your gut decides to get upset with unpleasant IBS symptoms……not the best feeling and timing hey😬?

We all know that the FODMAP diet is an evidence-based dietary treatment for IBS, but does it have a role in sports nutrition too? (Spoiler alert: Yes!) A narrative review published this year looked at the role of FODMAPs in athletes and how the low FODMAP diet may play a role.

Although originally developed to reduce symptoms in individuals medically diagnosed with IBS, the low FODMAP diet can also potentially reduce the effects of gut symptoms in athletes with non-specific digestive symptoms, including those with IBS, and in turn improve their performance and mental wellbeing.

In most of the studies that looked at FODMAP and sports nutrition, short-term FODMAP restriction before and during exercises reduced symptom severity. However, there is still a lack of evidence investigating the FODMAP diet’s long-term effects on the health, nutrition, and gut microbiota of athletes, which are all important aspects to consider in the overall wellbeing in athletes (and in everyone else who follows the FODMAP diet too, of course!).

Given the FODMAP diet’s possible impact on nutritional intake and gut microbiota in the long-term, an individualised FODMAP approach is essential for athletes who follow the diet, to help minimise dietary restrictions and optimise the gut microbiota, while achieving symptom control, improved performance and sustained mental wellbeing. This is an area of sports and gut nutrition research that we all look forward to hearing more about in the future.

Ref: Kołodziejczyk, A., Staśkiewicz-Bartecka, W., & Kardas, M. (2026). The Role of FODMAPs in Sports Nutrition: A Narrative Review and Clinical Implications. Nutrients, 18(2), 239.

06/04/2026

Check out the Ride Hub!