I don't get why any of this is so hard for people - top level distance running is accessible only to those who can be healthy at really low levels of bodyfat. If you are training like an elite and eating healthy, non-obesegenic foods with plenty of macronutrients that don't alter fuel partitioning toward more fat storage to sustain the work and rebuild muscle but still partition a less than ideal quanta of fuel to storage starving won't work because bodies have different algorithms for partitioning the calories and some bodies shortchange some metabolic functions in order to sustain others not necessarily in the priority order we might prefer. Two things can be true at once - being lean is good for distance running and any coach who thinks macronutrient restriction is a strategy to this end is a malignant dumbass. Female bodies in particular- surprise surprise - often prioritize fertility over dumb shit like an ideal physiognomy for running for obvious reasons.
There were no specific allegations against the coaches in the article, just the general “eating disorder culture”. If anyone crossed a line, it is the nutritionist. Allegedly telling athletes to loose fat from specific areas and comparing runners’ body compositions to teammates and prior teams. She didn’t start working for the school until 2014, so I don’t see why investigators would have to contact every single person who has ever run for Wetmore at CU.
What steps did the Gouchers et al. take to avoid selection bias with this open letter? So frustrating because they really should know better. Of course some people had positive experiences! Some people had a positive experience working with Salazar.
I don't get why any of this is so hard for people - top level distance running is accessible only to those who can be healthy at really low levels of bodyfat. If you are training like an elite and eating healthy, non-obesegenic foods with plenty of macronutrients that don't alter fuel partitioning toward more fat storage to sustain the work and rebuild muscle but still partition a less than ideal quanta of fuel to storage starving won't work because bodies have different algorithms for partitioning the calories and some bodies shortchange some metabolic functions in order to sustain others not necessarily in the priority order we might prefer. Two things can be true at once - being lean is good for distance running and any coach who thinks macronutrient restriction is a strategy to this end is a malignant dumbass. Female bodies in particular- surprise surprise - often prioritize fertility over dumb shit like an ideal physiognomy for running for obvious reasons.
There were no specific allegations against the coaches in the article, just the general “eating disorder culture”. If anyone crossed a line, it is the nutritionist. Allegedly telling athletes to loose fat from specific areas and comparing runners’ body compositions to teammates and prior teams. She didn’t start working for the school until 2014, so I don’t see why investigators would have to contact every single person who has ever run for Wetmore at CU.
What steps did the Gouchers et al. take to avoid selection bias with this open letter? So frustrating because they really should know better. Of course some people had positive experiences! Some people had a positive experience working with Salazar.