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Impacts of Body Dissatisfaction On Performance

As an athlete, you know you need to fuel properly to train, recover, and stay healthy. And to help, there are apps, experts and articles to keep you accountable to eating enough. But if you struggle with your relationship with your body, that dissatisfaction can silently interfere with your ability to eat enough, fuel your workouts appropriately and support your body with the nutrition it deserves. In simple terms: 👉 When you respect your body, you give it what it needs. 👉 When you dislike your body, you withhold fuel. A healthy body relationship removes emotional roadblocks so that fueling can be based on science, health, and performance. 

2025 Patagonman Finisher!

  Patagonman Finisher  An extreme triathlon at the end of the world I find it serendipitous that our 50th newsletter of the year is occurring a few weeks before the beginning of Karel's 50th birth year of life and I am writing about an event that Karel has dreamed of finishing for the past few years.  On December 7th, Karel took on  Patagonman Extreme Triathlon . We did everything possible to get him to this start line — but what lied ahead were 140 miles of uncontrollables. We woke up at 2am after a night of no sleep. At 4am, he boarded a ferry in the dark and at 5:30am, he jumped into the fjord (55 degrees - much warmer than usual), and swam 2.4 miles back to shore (1:08). From there, a 110-mile point-to-point ride with over 8,000 ft of climbing, gravel, cobbles, wind and whatever Patagonia decides to throw at him. He finished the bike in 5:50. And then, a 27-mile run with 3250 feet of gain, all off-road, through technical forest trail...