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The Female(?) Athlete Triad - Part III/III: Road to Recovery! Step #3 = Reinvent Your Training Regimen

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You don't have to wonder that you get lost, when you embark on a journey without food, a map and as you will soon realize no definitive destination. After I did not have time to write the third part of the Road to Recovery , which is Part II of the SuppVersity Female(?) Athlete's Triad Series , my guilty conscious has been plaguing me, so that I will simply take the time, sit down and write down everything that comes to mind, as far as the workout side of the triad is concerned. To be honest, aside from those of you who are still caught in the "working out to burn body fat" idiocy, I believe that everyone who has been following the SuppVersity for some time, who has read the Step By Step Guide to Your Own Workout Routine and, most importantly, follows his or her rationale instead of being misguided by fears of "getting fat again", "losing muscle", etc. should not make so many mistakes, here... right? Well we will see ... When we are talkin...
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The Female(?) Athlete Triad - Part III/III: Road to Recovery! Step #2 = Accept There is No Magic Macronutrient Ratio

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No need to raid another tomb, Lara, the quest for the one and only ideal macronutrient composition that will yield optimal results for the rest of your life ends here (img courtesy of Paramount )! I am not planning to bore you with a longish summary of the previous installment(s) of this series, here. Still, I don't want to head on to the 2nd step of the "Road to Recovery", which is going to deal with the quest for the "optimal" macronutrient ratio, without a brief reminder of the central role of nutrient availability in both the etiology, as well as the recovery from the athlete triad - or, as Dr. Zanker from the Carnegie Research Institute at the Leeds Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom puts it, the simple fact that the "exercise associated reproductive dysfunction in women is attributable to deficits of readily available energy" (Zanker. 2006) In a couple of more general remarks some of you have recently (not without good reaso...
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The Female(?) Athlete Triad - Part III/III: Road to Recovery! Step #1 = "Increase Your Energy Intake"! Plus: Learn How to Calculate Your Resting Energy Expenditure (BMR)

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You don't have to eat Burgers and French fries all day, but it's almost certain that you got to eat MORE than before. In this installment we will thus take a look on how much you'd minimally to function in your regular everyday life. I have to admit I did underestimate the workload that would be associated with the SuppVersity Female(?) Athlete Triad Series . When I wrote the first part of this series, I originally did not even plan to have a second , let alone third part. Now, I've reached Part III and have to realize that the simple question "how much do I have to eat" can become pretty hairy. Not the least, because I personally have never been an advocate of meticulous calorie counting and yet cannot ignore the fact that I have to give you something you can start from... to cut a long story short, also to avoid falling victim to the aforementioned "bloggers triad" , I will tackle the rest of this series, the "Road to Recovery" a...
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The Female(?) Athlete Triad - Part II/III: LH, GH, IGF1, Insulin, Ghrelin, Leptin & Co Form a Self-Perpetuating Vicious Cycle

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I usually rant against pizza and beer, but once the athlete triad has struck, they can be an occasional part of the "healing protocol". In last Sunday's first installment of this series we have taken a look at the prevalence, etiology and fundamental cause of an entity that is, and I am repeating myself here, profoundly mis labeled as the " female athlete triad ". In fact, it is, as we have learned in the last installment , neither an exclusively female thing, nor a triad. If anything, it is a quintet or sextet. To make that clear, and give you guys, who make the same mistakes, but usually with less detrimental consequences, I will once more refer to it as "athlete triad" = AT,  in this second part of the Female(?) Athlete Triad Series in which we will take a look at the endocrine underpinnings of the previously described consequences of the temporary and long-term energy deficiency we have identified as the single most important causative fact...
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