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The Best of Muscle For Life: Staying Too Lean, Hypertrophy Vs. Hyperplasia, & Titan

Muscle for Life with Mike Matthews

CHAPTER

The Effects of Body Fat on Performance

The female athlete triad sits within all the symptoms of reds. You know, someone who is trying to stay lean. Maybe they think it's enhancing their power to weight ratio. They're perhaps even performing better. But they're kind of redlining it when you really look at it. It increases the likelihood of injury and athletes being at too low of an energy availability. So that's a long monologue to basically say, technically it seems to be about calories. But if you get too lean, there's probably an independent negative effect as well.

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