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Episode #151: Energy Expenditure, Metabolism, and More with Herman Pontzer

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The Constrained Energy Model in Strength Sports

The Tour de France is like a month long eating contest on bikes. Over-training syndrome exists in strength sports, we've never been described in the literature. It's not because you don't have enough power bars and gatorade; it's because you just can't put the energy in fast enough. So exercise is taking too big of a share, right, and it's leaving not enough for immune system and other stuff.

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