Female youth athletics has become more popular over the last few decades with volleyball specifically reaching some all-time highs with nearly ½ million girls currently involved in playing high school volleyball (Olson, 2024). However, females involved in this sport specifically, or other similar sports which involve higher volumes of jumping, cutting, reactive movements, and other aspects of explosive power can be more vulnerable to a variety of pain and injuries during thei

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