Remy
Hughes

Born and raised Scouser from Liverpool, I’ve always believed if you’re going to set a goal, there’s no point doing it by halves—I’d rather go ALL IN. That mindset has driven most of my decisions, including moving to Perth and the path I’ve taken in sport nutrition. Working alongside elite sport is what made me realise sports nutrition was what I wanted to dedicate myself to. Seeing the impact it had on performance, recovery, energy, consistency and how the body actually feels day to day, made it clear this was the space I wanted to work in. At Liverpool Ladies Football Club, Everton Football Club and Newcastle Falcons Rugby Union Club, I was exposed to different environments and demands, but I recognised the same pattern showed up every time. The people who smashed the basics consistently were the ones who performed best across a season. Across those environments, my work included supporting nutrition strategies around training and competition, hydration monitoring and intervention, body composition tracking, GPS and performance data analysis, recovery support and delivering nutrition education to first team and academy players. This also included education and organisation of supplementation strategies across training and competition phases, ensuring players were supported properly depending on workload and stage of the season. What stood out most wasn’t anything complex, it was how powerful the basics become when they’re done properly, consistently. Fuel the work, recover properly and repeat it. That’s what actually drives performance. Alongside studying and sport, I spent 5 years as an Army Reservist in the Royal Artillery in Liverpool. That experience honestly shaped how I think. It wasn’t comfortable, and it definitely wasn’t meant to be. A lot of it came down to mindset, how you spoke to yourself when things got hard, how you stayed switched on when you were fatigued or sleep deprived and how you kept moving when everything in you wanted to give up. I learned fast that you can’t wing it under pressure and nutrition becomes a big part of whether you cope or fall. If you’re not fuelling properly, you feel it immediately. Energy lacks, focus goes and everything gets harder than it should be. That’s where I learned nutrition isn’t about perfection, it’s about giving yourself the correct fuel to perform when it counts. At the end of the day, I’m genuinely passionate about this because I live it myself. I train seriously and apply my own nutrition principles with discipline, while still staying up to date with the latest research to make sure what I do is always current and evidence-based. A big part of how I live is: I fuel to perform, and anyone who knows me knows I’m always about passing that mindset on to the people around me too.