Iron-clad your training: the critical mineral runners need to perform at their best
About this episode
The episode discusses the critical role of iron in athletic performance and health, featuring insights from expert Kelly Anne Erdman.
For many athletes, especially in the world of endurance sport, the exhaustion that follows a hard effort is part of the reward for the training it took to make it happen. But when the mountaintop feeling of a new personal best fades away and the fatigue still lingers, it might be a sign of something deeper lurking beneath the surface. What if that fatigue you’re battling during a heavy training block is more than simply the product of hard work? What if the impacts of an activity-filled lifestyle might actually be contributing to long term health risks? These are the questions that have often gone unheard or overlooked by athletes at all ability levels, but are crucial to making sure that sport remains a healthy part of any athlete's life. While there’s no simple catchall answer to the above questions, a recurring theme that has drawn the ongoing attention of leading sports scientists, dieticians, and doctors is the impact of low iron levels. Yet for all iron’s importance to our overall health–and sport performance–it remains largely misunderstood by many athletes. That’s why a group of Canada’s leading sport-science minds have spent the last three years compiling the research…
People in this episode
Host: David Stol
Guest: Kelly Anne Erdman
Topics covered
- iron levels
- athlete health
- endurance sport
- nutrition
- fatigue management
Keywords
- iron optimization
- endurance athletes
- fatigue
- nutrition
- sports science
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Canada's Best Practice Guidelines for Iron Optimization in Athletes, The Shakeout Podcast, Canadian Running Magazine
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