With female gymnasts, my main two nutrional concerns:
A good article on USolympicteam.com
Symptoms
The easiest symptom to notice associated with iron deficiency anemia is fatigue that worsens with exertion. Fatigue is common and can have many different causes (such as other nutritional imbalances, illness or stress). If an athlete experiences normal fatigue throughout the day and is not worsened with exercise, the cause is likely not iron deficiency by itself. The following are also possible symptoms of iron deficiency anemia:
Decreased performance Sleepiness and fatigue (outside of normal) Poor concentration Moodiness or irritability Always feeling cold
By Bob Seebohar, Fuel4mance – IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA AND PERFORMANCE
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I’ve seen a lot in the female tumbler/cheerleaders and gymnasts and even in some young male gymnasts. Annoying as hell, imo, as it means their quality of training time is always crummy whenever they start getting headaches or running out of energy half way into training.
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