Ep. 179 - The Dangers of Being Shredded (& Why It’s Almost Impossible To Sustain)
Iron Culture presented by MASS
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Symptoms of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport
There's a ton of research on the thresholds of energy availability when you start to see symptoms of relative energy deficiency in sport. The threshold has generally been observed to be around 30, but this is absolutely not a hard line rule. Athletes sometimes get symptoms of reds in th 30 to forty, five k cow per kilogram of lean body mass range. So if you have too low of energy for your energy output, you will start to have negative effects on performance and health. And basically it mirrors all the things that bodybilders talk about that they experience as they get leaner. But there's no point where energy availability takes into account your body fat per centage. It
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