Running Through Exhaustion: Why You're Tired All the Time and How to Fix It

Are you tired all the time, both during runs and during the rest of the day? This remastered episode from 2024 examines training fatigue, abnormal fatigue, vitamin deficiencies, low energy availability, training load management, and more!

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In this episode, you'll learn:

✅ Normal vs abnormal fatigue

✅ Vitamin D deficiency and low iron levels

✅ Low energy and low carbohydrate availability

✅ Is caffeine or pre-workout overriding your body’s signals?

✅ Eating disorders and disordered eating

✅ Is it your training plan that is making you tired?

✅ Other factors that may cause fatigue

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🎧 What to Eat Before Runs, Recovery Nutrition, and Low Energy Availability (26 July 2024)

References:

🔬Jeukendrup & Gleeson. (2016). Sport nutrition. Third edition. **Human Kinetics.

🔬Gropper & Smith. Advanced nutrition and human metabolism. Sixth edition. Wadsworth Cengage Learning.

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