Björn Geesmann - Coach of Patrick Lange & Kat Matthews
The Triathlon Hour
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The Ideal Body Fat for a Long Distance Triathlete
"I'm always a big fan of keeping this last, let's say half a kilo that last one percentage of body fat to be saved," he says. "The way up to these seven eight nine percent of body fat is too risky when it comes especially to energy away availability." If you are a professional female triathlete having around 10% of body fat that's in my opinion totally fine get and measured with caliper measured again,. Get rid of the idea that also women need to have like 7 to 8 percent of bodyfat which I think is too low for them.
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