mysportscience academy: who are we?

Professor Asker Jeukendrup founded mysportscience with the goal to bridge the gap between science and practice. After working many years in academia and in elite sport it was obvious that the two worlds are not always connected and often have different objectives. In sport decisions are often made based on poor information or even misinformation. Science may have some answers but is often complicated or difficult to interpret and use. We created mysportscience to make complicated science easier to understand, separate sense from non-sense and to translate theory into practical recommendations.

“At Mysportscience Academy, our mission is to bridge the gap between science and practice in sport and exercise sciences by providing accessible, evidence-based education. We empower professionals to continue learning at their own pace, making complex science simple, practical, and relevant.”

Professor Asker Jeukendrup is one of the world’s leading sports nutritionists and exercise physiologist who spent most of his career as a professor at the University of Birmingham (UK) (sports sciences). In his academic career Dr Jeukendrup authored 10 books and over 250 research papers and book chapters. His textbook of Sport Nutrition is one of the best-selling textbooks on this topic with a new edition in June 2024.

He is currently director of a performance consulting business “Mysportscience”, as well as a professor at Loughborough University. Asker is Performance Manager Nutrition for the Dutch Olympic team and the Red Bull Athlete Performance Center. He was head performance Nutrition for the Visma Lease a Bike Pro cycling team, who won all 3 grand Tours in 2023 recently became the Director of Performance Strategy for the Red Bull BORA Hansgrohe world tour cycling team as well as head of nutrition. For more then 10 years he was also performance manager nutrition for the Dutch Olympic Team. Asker has a wealth of experience working in elite sport from working with Olympic and World champions, Tour de France cyclists, Champions league football teams as well as the NFL and NBA.

He teaches the FC Barcelona Advanced Sports Nutrition course and is the founder of mysportscience. Mysportscience has a website that aims to help separate sense and non-sense in sport science and sport nutrition (www.mysportscience.com) and www.mysportscienceacademy.com is a leading platform for education of professionals in sport.

His mission is to use science to help athletes achieve their goals.

Asker practices what he preaches and is competing in Ironman distance triathlons as well as other endurance events. To date he completed 21 Ironman races including 6 time the Ironman world Championship in Hawaii.

About Us

What is mysportscience academy?

Mission statement

Professor Asker Jeukendrup

Founder of mysportscience