Endurance sports have a risk of the athletes developing intentionally or unintentionally LEA (low energy availability) which has higher prevalence in females, but should we be monitoring males, especially youth males for relative energy deficiency in sport (aka RED-S). An interesting study examined the special energy analysis of youth cyclists in season which occurs during hotter weather for possibility of LEA. By definition LEA is when daily consumption of <30kcal/ kg fat-fr

Should children be resistance training? If so, how should we be preparing children for it? For the sake of this discussion, “children” will be defined as those who have yet to reach puberty, so generally somewhere between 6-13 years old depending on sex. Secondly, under what context would we consider resistance training for children? Again, for the sake of this post, the demographic would be elementary P.E. class or general physical conditioning for kids not necessarily invol

Sample Athlete:  14-year-old eumenorrheic basketball player without symptoms of RED-S in the “specific preparatory” phase of the preseason.   The sport of basketball demands a variety of fitness abilities from the athlete unlike many other sports. There is nearly equal aerobic and anerobic needs as repeated sprinting and shuffling occur without significant rest between these bouts. Therefore, a key need is the ability to perform repeated short, high-intensity efforts (5-10 s