Six respected experts in the field of strength training and athlete development have come together to create this comprehensive and user-friendly guide to increasing female athletic performance. Appropriate for the weekend athlete as well as the elite, this book is free from the technical jargon that makes many serious training books unpalatable to the average reader, including an entire chapter that addresses the common questions that most women have when entering the weight room or beginning a new sport.
Of all the important factors that must be considered when assessing and treating an athlete, the impact of patient sex is perhaps the most critical, yet historically has often been neglected.
The book addresses gender differences in substrate utilization and the implications for how these differences might translate into different macronutrient requirements for female athletes.
Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach and drawing on the experience of experts in their respective fields, this unique book presents and discusses an array of topics relevant to the ever-growing population of pediatric, adolescent and ...
The first authoritative guide for keeping female athletes healthy and injury free Women's and girls' participation in sports grows exponentially every year, and everyone knows that women's bodies are constructed differently from men's, yet ...
Important, refreshing, and engrossing, Built to Win examines sport in all its complexity.
This is the first book of its kind to focus solely on the female athlete triad - its origins, its recognition, and most importantly, its management.
This issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine, edited by Dr Siobhan Statuta, will cover a variety of topics related to The Female Athlete.
Sisterhood in Sports reveals what drives the female athlete: communication, camaraderie, competition, collaboration, and community.
This book gives authentic perspectives and deal with issues such as post partum depression, divorce, and the challenges of living in a foreign country.
This new International Olympic Committee (IOC) handbook covers the science, medicine and psycho-social aspects of females in sports at all levels of competition.