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Today, we're going to talk about weight management and specifically weight management and fat

loss for triathletes because we got to haul our asses around a lot of places and in some

cases the smaller those asses are, the better.

We're waistlines or hips or bellies or whatever else.

I come from a background where I have raced at 210 pounds before and for me it was more muscle

than fat but I still experienced a great deal of discomfort carrying and cooling that amount

of body mass over a distance and so fat loss and weight loss is not only a really good

consideration when it comes to your comfort and your speed during the race but also I know a lot

of us are in this sport frankly because we want to look good, we want to look sexy, we want

to have good aesthetics and you know we want to get rid of our waistline and all that good

stuff and unfortunately I see many times this sport come back to bite people and the

butt, they do it because they think it's going to help them lose weight and sometimes the

opposite ends up happening, you end up putting fat in new places or not losing weight or kind

of starting the sport and then stopping it and then ballooning and getting it bigger which

actually happens to a lot of folks, we see people who have started into endurance sports

and then stop, they just balloon because their metabolism is damaged and their insulin sensitivity

has been tossed out the window and their thyroid has gone so there are definitely some considerations

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