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#65: How women should eat around their training with Dr. Stacy Sims

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How to Stay Out of a Low Energy State

Low energy availability is a precursor to a bigger syndrome called relative energy deficiency in sport. It's technically having enough calories coming in that you can support lying on the couch, all day watching net flex and not doing anything in um. And then having additional fuel of available for your training and recovery from training. Most people think about calories as, uh, i might want to stay below that 18 hundred because i'm trying to change my body composition, or i'm a small, petite woman, or maybe not. When we look at that, that's barely enough to sustain getting up off the couch to go up to the t v and change the channels,.

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