If there is one complaint I hear from women more than any other, it is their frustration about not losing weight despite the hours and hours of training involved with endurance sports (or worse, that they’ve put weight on!).
So I wanted to call in an expert for Sparta Chicks Radio this week to explain why this happens — and, most importantly, what you can do to change it.
Katee Pedicini runs Holistic Endurance in Melbourne, Australia.
She’s a triathlon coach with a degree in Exercise Science who specialises in managing fatigue, stress and hormones in endurance athletes.
But this isn’t only a conversation about weight.
It’s a conversation about your health and the widespread impact stress has on your body.
From your risk of injury and illness, the results you get (or don’t get) from your training, how quickly you recover from hard training sessions, how tired you feel, whether you hit the wall at 3pm and have to reach for coffee/chocolate/sugar, you feel like you're constantly on a short fuse to whether you need a glass of wine at the end of a busy day to wind down.
These are all factors that are influenced by the amount of stress in your life and the hormonal response your body has to that stress.
Get the full show notes for the episode here.
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