Lesson series
Weight management in athletes
In this course, Ina Garthe will discuss weight management strategies in athletes.
You will learn about:
Gradual and rapid weight loss
Making weight in weight category sports
Metabolic adaptations and auto-regulation with weight loss
Health vs performance over time
Making weight in weight category sports
Metabolic adaptations and auto-regulation with weight loss
Health vs performance over time
Ina Garthe
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50 mins
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Testimonials
Ina Garthe
Ina has worked at the Norwegian Olympic centre for almost 20 years. She heads up a team of 12 people within Olympiatoppen, the Norwegian Olympic team and is responsible for Olympic-level weight-class athletes, and athletics. She is involved in research and development, the link between the Olympic centre and the universities, developing policies and guidelines for the department and the eating disorder team, she looks after supplement programs, developing education programs at universities and is also responsible for pre camps and Olympics. Norway is a small country of 5.2 million people, but they were incredibly successful at the Pyeongchang Olympic Games winning a staggering 39 medals, 10 medals more than Canada, 8 more than Germany and 16 more than the US.