Exercise alone won't cause you to miss periods. Rather, it's the combination of exercise and not eating enough.
This is false. See Anthony Hackney's research. Stress alone can seriously mess with female and male sex hormones. The intensity and volume of most elite athletes amounts to a lot of stress. One aspect of talent is likely having and exceptional ability of the endocrine system to take a beating and remain normalish.
You are correct. A few posters always get upset over this topic because they have overweight girlfriends or daughters. The reality is that the majority of female endurance athletes have inconsistent menstruation. Read every Government study and this fact is confirmed. As a poster said, the body shuts it down in periods of endurance training. A pregnant women would harm the baby by running 100MPW. Even mental stress can shut it down for the same reason. These are protective measures. They are not negative things.
Horrible take. Regular periods are necessary for bone health. Most female athletes don't know this, so it's unsurprising that the mostly male posters on letsrun don't either.
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You are correct. My statement was also factual. Ovulation is necessary for bone health. But high mileage stresses the body to the point that the majority of women periodically miss their period.
You are correct. A few posters always get upset over this topic because they have overweight girlfriends or daughters. The reality is that the majority of female endurance athletes have inconsistent menstruation. Read every Government study and this fact is confirmed. As a poster said, the body shuts it down in periods of endurance training. A pregnant women would harm the baby by running 100MPW. Even mental stress can shut it down for the same reason. These are protective measures. They are not negative things.
I married an elite swimmer (now an elite masters swimmer). She was 5'3", ~100-105 lbs. and training 2-3hrs/day when we married. She had no problem getting pregnant as soon as we tried. Her OB/Gyn, who was athletic, told her she could continue her training as long as she was comfortable with it, and that her body would preferentially deliver oxygenated blood to her placenta. She trained and raced until 2 weeks before her delivery. Postpartum she stayed 10-15 lbs heavier while she was nursing and lost that weight as soon as he stopped nursing. She did the same thing for our second child two years later. Both children are healthy normal kids who appear to be on their way to being very good athletes. Intensive endurance training will not harm the baby for a normal pregnancy. Elle St. P. ran the USATF Nationals pregnant.
The aim of this study was to assess the effects of intensive training on menstrual function and related serum hormones and peptides.Forty female participants who attended a training course for an officer at the Korea Third Mi...
How is it that you think she chose anorexia? Why don't you learn about psychological and emotional states of mind where we don't have "free will" to just be the person others tell us to be.
You can test it out right now. If you have "free will" then I would challenge you to feel like I am right and you are wrong. Then, since you now feel like you agree with me, post about how I am right.
If you can't even choose to agree with me, then you understand what it is like to not be able to choose to feel differently about anything...
p.s. I wish I like to eat squash, legumes, and spinach. I think they are gross. I can't "choose to like them" even though I wish I could. 99% of things in life are like that.
You are correct. A few posters always get upset over this topic because they have overweight girlfriends or daughters. The reality is that the majority of female endurance athletes have inconsistent menstruation. Read every Government study and this fact is confirmed. As a poster said, the body shuts it down in periods of endurance training. A pregnant women would harm the baby by running 100MPW. Even mental stress can shut it down for the same reason. These are protective measures. They are not negative things.
I married an elite swimmer (now an elite masters swimmer). She was 5'3", ~100-105 lbs. and training 2-3hrs/day when we married. She had no problem getting pregnant as soon as we tried. Her OB/Gyn, who was athletic, told her she could continue her training as long as she was comfortable with it, and that her body would preferentially deliver oxygenated blood to her placenta. She trained and raced until 2 weeks before her delivery. Postpartum she stayed 10-15 lbs heavier while she was nursing and lost that weight as soon as he stopped nursing. She did the same thing for our second child two years later. Both children are healthy normal kids who appear to be on their way to being very good athletes. Intensive endurance training will not harm the baby for a normal pregnancy. Elle St. P. ran the USATF Nationals pregnant.
I genuinely don't mean this to come off as snarky, but I don't know how relevant the anecdote of an elite swimmer is to this discussion. Elite swimmers famously carry more body fat than elite runners for a variety of reasons (including helping with buoyancy in the water), and exceptionally low body weight is not nearly as critical given the support of the water.
ah ok great to see some evidence-based posting, thanks. what I don't understand is why you are going on about this on a thread about how great Allie O is doing?
honestly sick of men who know nothing about women's bodies commenting on how women's bodies work. I am female and I had the most consistent period of my life while running the highest volume I've ever done(around 70mpw) and being around 5'3", 105lbs, 12% body fat. I raced a marathon PR and got pregnant 3 months later without trying, now I'm halfway through a healthy pregnancy and still running. I got a lot of comments about how I needed to gain body fat to get pregnant from ignorant men, but it isn't about what a woman's body looks like or how much body fat they have, it's about getting the right nutrients in. LETS STOP TELLING WOMEN HOW HEALTHY THEY ARE BASED ON HOW THEY LOOK.
She looks healthier now compared to before. No surprise she's running well. Hope she continues on this path. Agree the Roches are the perfect coaches for her.
When Allie won NXN she looked about 8 years old. Her parents were around the event feasting on the glory. She had to be putting in big mileage. It was pathetic. Where were the adults in the room to say, stop, this is a child, her health is being subverted, and for what?
I am a male. That doesn't make me an expert on the male body. Smart people rely on doctors and studies, not anecdotal evidence. But I guess you are one of those people who thinks your experience means more than that of millions of others. You sound like my grandfather who smoked his entire life but lived to 92. He claimed that smoking was not bad for you and that he was the evidence.
