Sporting Career Sustainability in Bodybuilding Feat. Dr. Eric Helms

Tune in to hear our latest conversation with Dr Eric Helms.

Here, we discussed the importance of safeguarding mental health in physique sport and Dr Eric Helms’ paper “Towards a Sustainable Nutrition Paradigm in Physique Sport: A Narrative Review” (PMID: 31315180) that I published with @break.binge.eating and @katarinaprnjak in 2019.

We specifically address how to encourage greater sporting career sustainability in bodybuilding by looking at the demands of the sport, the demographics of the competitors, and the nutritional approaches and tracking methods often used to achieve short term success.

Then, we provided guidance on how to hopefully mitigate the potential harm (which all sports have in some fashion or another) in bodybuilding by integrating concepts from weight management, eating disorder and body image concern research and clinical treatment into bodybuilding coaching, hopefully allowing athletes to potentially enjoy longer, more successful competitive careers.

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:51 Eric's Beginnings
1:55 Eric's First Lifting Experience
3:56 What Intuitive Eating Is
7:21 What It's like as a New Coach
11:28 Reciting Eric's Resume

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