Description:
Up to Speed - Christine Yu - 2023
The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes
By: Christine Yu
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 05-16-23
Categories: Health & Wellness, Fitness, Diet & Nutrition, Anatomy & Physiology
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
“Up to Speed is a roadmap and toolbox for athletes of all ages. Every coach should read it and discuss it with their athletes. I wish I had been able to read this book while I was competing.” —Kara Goucher, Olympic long-distance runner and author of The Longest Race
How the latest science can help women achieve their athletic potential
Over the last fifty years, women have made extraordinary advances in athletics. More women than ever are playing sports and staying active longer. Whether they’re elite athletes looking for an edge or enthusiastic amateurs, women deserve a culture of sports that helps them thrive: training programs and equipment designed to work with their bodies, as well as guidelines for nutrition and injury prevention that are based in science and tailored to their lived experience.
Yet too often the guidance women receive is based on research that fails to consider their experiences or their bodies. So much of what we take as gospel about exercise and sports science is based solely on studies of men.
The good news is, this is finally changing. Researchers are creating more inclusive studies to close the gender data gap. They’re examining the ways women can boost athletic performance, reduce injury, and stay healthy.
Sports and health journalist Christine Yu disentangles myth and gender bias from real science, making the case for new approaches that can help women athletes excel at every stage of life, from adolescence to adulthood, through pregnancy, menopause, and beyond. She explains the latest research and celebrates the researchers, athletes, and advocates pushing back against the status quo and proposing better solutions to improve the active and athletic lives of women and girls.
©2023 Christine Yu (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critic reviews
"Illuminating. . . . Yu’s overview of the many ways women athletes are underserved enrages, and her mastery of the scientific literature impresses. This is a valuable contribution to the growing science on women in sports."—Publishers Weekly
"A brisk, well-researched study of athletic performance.”—Kirkus
“This important distillation of the science underlying women's sports performance illuminates what we've known all along—that we're different but not lesser."—Bonnie Tsui, author of Why We Swim
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