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Nutrition
Low energy availability: the warning signs athletes should know
RED-S and low energy availability describe the same core problem: fueling that does not cover training plus basic physiology. Here are the documented markers.
Articles by Bianca Reyes
Nutrition
Carbohydrate loading: what the evidence says about old and new protocols
The classic week-long depletion protocol is obsolete. Modern carbohydrate loading takes one to three days, and the trials show who benefits and who does not.
Bianca Reyes
Nutrition
Iron status in endurance athletes: ferritin, foot-strike hemolysis, and screening
Endurance training raises iron losses in several documented ways. What the research says about who gets screened, and what low ferritin means.
Bianca Reyes
Fitness
Periodization blocks explained simply: what do they do?
Periodization — organizing training into phases or blocks — outperformed non-periodized programs for strength in a 2017 meta-analysis, with modest average advantages and no evidence that one structure beats all others.
Bianca Reyes
Sport News
World Cup 2026 heat: how hydration works
FIFA confirmed in December 2025 that every 2026 World Cup match will have hydration breaks; the evidence on heat, sweat and drinking explains why.
Bianca Reyes
Fitness
How many weekly sets per muscle group does research support?
Meta-analyses suggest ten or more hard weekly sets per muscle roughly double the growth seen with single-digit set counts, with diminishing — not zero — returns beyond that.
Bianca Reyes