Questions of RED-S and disordered eating are beyond the scope of this one article, but if you think you may need help, you are not alone in the running community, and there are many resources available. In order to be healthy athletes we have to be healthy humans. Especially in younger athletes, less sleep correlates with higher stress fracture risk ( study) Sleeping is a good thing, especially when you’ve put in a bunch of miles on the day! You can read more about the benefits of plyometrics in our article on the subject. Hopping exercises, often called plyometrics, can tremendously increase bone strength ( study). Strength is never a weakness when it comes to preventing injury. Strong muscles help bones handle force more evenly ( study) and stronger muscles increase overall training tolerance which likely reduces injury risk. Muscle and bone are best friends for life. There is a lot of research on the subject, but the takeaways from all these papers are fairly simple How every runner can prevent stress fractures All of the sudden the 35 miles per week (for example) that your body knows and loves becomes far beyond what it can take. Not eating enough lowers training tolerance. Not eating enough does not itself cause stress fractures, but athletes who under-fuel are at tremendously elevated risk of bone stress injury ( consensus statement from The IOC). The term RED-S (Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport) is the most up to date way researchers categorize the physical, mental, and social state athletes of both sexes get into when they’re not consuming enough calories relative to their burn.
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