Sparta Chicks Radio: Mindset | Confidence | Sport | Women

Josie Askin is a New Zealand based runner and Holistic Wellness Coach who grew up watching her Dad compete in running events.As she tells the story in this conversation, she was a chubby kid who was teased about her weight so she started running during her teenage years to lose weight.Unfortunately, she soon found herself in a cycle of overtraining, under-recovery & under-eating for about 9 years which culminated in her experiencing the female athlete triad (as it was referred to then, which is a combination of disordered eating, amenorrhea and osteoporosis or low bone density) and ultimately a stress fracture in her hip.These days, the concept of the female athlete triad has been replaced by RED-S (relative deficiency in sport) - Josie will explain the difference in this conversation.In this conversation, she shares: * how she approached her running and recovery (and how the goal of wanting to lose weight influenced that)* the symptoms and red flags of RED-S and the surprising statistics about how common