"POWER TO WEIGHT MATTERS, BUT NOT AT THE COST OF OUR HEALTH": NIKKI BRAMMEIER ON RED-S
Nikki Brammeier’s cycling career spanned more than ten years across myriad disciplines, from track, to MTB, to road, but with her main focus being cyclocross. Having suffered from RED-s, she wants more young athletes to understand the health risks of energy deficiency
WORDS: AMY JONES
It wasn’t until two years after retirement, and having her daughter Ida in 2019, that Nikki Brammeier realised that she had been suffering with Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport, or RED-s, for most of her career.
“I think for me, the realisation that I had RED-s and just how much I struggled with my weight and things throughout my career really only became apparent after I'd had Ida,” she says. “Because about six months after she was born, I started to go back into those habits of not eating properly, or I'd just skip meals or I'd make an excuse and be like, 'I'm busy with Ida I can't eat' or I'd be riding my bike or running and it was all to do with my weight.”
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