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17th Oct 2025

Is Your Daughter at Risk of RED-S?

Hey parents,

The risk for teenage girls is real. Overtraining and under-fuelling are more common than most people think.

Those at highest risk are sports that value aesthetics, weight, or endurance... things like running, gymnastics, martial arts, boxing, rowing, swimming, and dance.

But with football now demanding year-round training, multiple matches, and high fitness expectations, we’re seeing more girls showing the same early warning signs — constant fatigue, missed periods, and recurring injuries.

It’s not about effort or discipline.

It’s about energy availability... and when the body doesn’t have enough fuel to match its output, it starts to shut down the very systems that make an athlete strong.

That’s why awareness matters.

The Female Athlete Performance Quiz helps you spot the early warning signs — low mood, fatigue, disrupted sleep, irregular periods, or slow recovery — before they turn into something serious.

It only takes a couple of minutes to complete, and the results could save your daughter years of frustration, injury, or worse.

👉 Take the Athlete Energy Quiz together here

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About the Podcast

The High Performance Gym
Performance without burnout
I’m Keir Wotherspoon.

I’ve been self-employed as a fitness coach and health educator for 16 years.
I ran a gym business for over five of those.
I’m also a dad of three.

Like many people, I’ve spent years trying to balance work, health, ambition, and family life, and I’ve learned how easy it is for energy to quickly disappear in the process.

This podcast is about understanding where that energy goes, and how to rebuild it without burning yourself out.

The High Performance Gym explores how your body, brain, and nervous system respond to stress, training, recovery, sleep, and pressure — and how small, repeatable changes can restore clarity, focus, and physical energy.

Some episodes are practical. Some are reflective. All are grounded in physiology, neuroscience, and real life.

If you want to perform well at work, show up at home, and still feel like yourself, this podcast is for you.

This is The High Performance Gym.

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