You have increased central nervous system fatigue, so you've kind of, quote, lost your mojo.

You can't hit that anaerobic capacity, so you have a greater predisposition to putting yourself

into that overtraining or overreach state, getting some immune compromisation.

So there's lots of little things that can tip a female athlete over the edge

that traflon show episode 105 hey what's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of that triathlon show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

I'm your host, Michael, and on today's episode, I interview Dr. Stacey Sims.

We discuss training, nutrition, hydration and recovery considerations that are specific for

female athletes because as we'll get into in the interview women are not small men and

most research in endurance sports is done with male college students, so it's not necessarily a representative sample.

So Stacey is an exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist, her role is as a senior research fellow at University of Waikato.

I should have checked how to pronounce that. It's in New Zealand. I did not.

So I might have gotten that wrong, but hopefully it's okay. Stacey specializes in sex differences

with regard to things like exercise, stress, heat stress, nutrition, recovery and the impact of all of these things on health, body composition and endurance performance.

And she is finally also the offer or co-offer of the book Roar, Women Are Not Small Men, Stop Eating and Training Like One.

So I think that subtitle is really good and tells you what it is about.

Before we dive into the interview, this episode is sponsored by precision hydration.

Andy Blow, founder of the company, recently wrote a great blog post on how much dehydration you can tolerate during an Iron Man.

And in a nutshell, the sweet spot is likely highly individual and may even be a bit different for the same athlete on different days and in different climates.

But it probably falls in the 2 to 4% body weight

range for most people.

So that is something that I will link to in the episode description if you want to read that

post.

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