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These articles are for women in sports who have questions about weight training for women, circuit training for women, or other fitness training questions specifically for the female athlete. Everything – from psychology studies of women in sports with eating disorders to body composition statistics – are available here… To browse our library of free sports training articles, browse using the categories on the left or use the search box.

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Strength training for female athletes

The benefits of strength training for young female athletes

Women's Rugby: Resistance training for rugby

A women's rugby trainer divulges her rugby conditioning secrets from the World Cup

Women's alternating and normal hammer curl

Women's alternating and normal hammer curl

The alternating and normal hammer curls are both good exercises for developing and keeping the biceps strong.

Women's back extension

Women's back extension

The back extension is one of the favorites in many gyms due to its effectiveness and reputation for increasing low back endurance and strength.

Women's barbell bench press

Women's barbell bench press

The barbell bench press is a fundamental upper body exercise for both men and women.

The alternating and normal hammer curls are both good exercises for developing and keeping the biceps strong.

Women's barbell curl

Women's barbell curl

The barbell curl is an excellent exercise for developing strength in the biceps of the upper arms.

Women's barbell military press

Women's barbell military press

The barbell military press has no peer amongst other upper body shoulder exercises.

Women's barbell row

Women's barbell row

The barbell row is an important exercise for the upper back.

Women's cat and camel

Women's cat and camel

It is recommended the cat and camel be the first exercise of the day. This movement is designed specifically toward keeping your low back flexible and supple.

Women's dumbbell bench press

Women's dumbbell bench press

The dumbbell bench press is a fine alternative to the barbell version of the exercise.

Women's dumbbell military press

Women's dumbbell military press

The dumbbell military press is a fine exercise for women who desire strong triceps.

Women's dumbbell standing calf raise

Women's dumbbell standing calf raise

Strong calf muscles require constant and varied attention. The standing dumbbell calf raise is just one of the many different exercises that are commonly used to develop the lower leg.

Women's non supported dumbbell row

Women's non supported dumbbell row

Developing the upper and lower back will mean doing rows of all forms.

Women's stiff leg dead lift

Women's stiff leg dead lift

The stiff leg dead lift is a direct lower back exercise and one that is regularly used in gyms world wide. It's used because it is an effective lower back exercise.

The Pendulum Shoulder Exercise

The Pendulum Shoulder Exercise

The pendulums are some of the best pre-hab shoulder exercises for a number of reasons. They are effective, easy to do and feel great.

Crunches

Crunches

Crunches can be done nearly anytime anywhere and they are a fine stomach exercise if done correctly.

The importance of a correctly fitted bra

Why size matters!

Vibration Training and Performance

Can vibration training enhance Sports Performance?

Skills Based Training: Female Games Players

Skills Based Training as an Alternative to Traditional Strength Training

Sports News: Eating Disorders

Eating disorders: are coaches to blame?

pregnancy weight training

Pregnancy Weight Training: Pregnancy, strength and fitness

disordered eating

Disordered eating is rare in Chinese athletes

body composition exercise

Body Composition & Exercise: Exercise intensity and body composition

gender performance

Gender Performance : Will women ever outpace men?

Body composition

Body composition and sport - why weight is a poor performance indicator

female triad

Female Triad: Bone recovery after female athlete triad

estrogen replacement therapy

Estrogen Replacement Therapy: Another blow for estrogen therapy

menstrual problems in athletes

Menstrual problems in athletes

metabolic rate

Metabolic Rate : The metabolic impact of exercise - or how your body works out while you put your feet up

exercise infection

Exercise infection: Gender divide after exercise stress

weight training for women

Weight training for women: Why women avoid weight training - and how coaches can change their minds

knee injuries women

Women's knee injuries

female athlete triad

Female athlete triad: Most elite athletes at risk of 'triad'

contraceptive pill and performance

The Pill may be the most effective contraceptive and the best way to manipulate your cycle for important events, but are you aware of its physiological effects and their impact on performance?

athletes eating disorders | female athletes

Athletes and eating disorders - Too thin to win: why athletes who lose weight to enhance performance are dangerously misguided

oral contraceptives | athletic performance

Oral contraceptives and athletic performance

How Good is the 'Bod Pod'?

Body Composition - Fat Measurement: How Good is the 'Bod Pod'?

Female Athletes: Menstrual dysfunction can effect health as well as sports performance

Menstrual dysfunction - the 'Energy Drain' for Female Athletes

Can Physical Activity Reduce the Risk of Suicide?

Suicide and physical activity - Why Active Women May Be More Suicidal

Transvestites in sport: the Olympics gender identity process

Gender verification at the Olympics

Female Athletes: Strength training exercises for knee injuries

Why do female athletes hurt their knees so often - and how can they protect themselves from knee injuries?

Strength training exercises for knee injuries

Female athletes: knee injuries treatment and prevention

Endurance training for female athletes

How endurance training helps women keep their weight down

Weight training: women entering the menopause struggle to encourage bone growth

How menopause limits women's response to weight training

Femal athletes experience more muscle damage after exercise than male athletes

Women suffer most muscle damage after strenuous exercise

Pregnancy and exercise: how women can safely exercise without endangering their baby

Unborn babies cope well with intensive workouts

Gender differences: the training differences between male and female athletes

The training differences between male and female athletes

supercompensation

Supercompensation works for women -
but better for men

Protection for bones

Protection For Bones: Adolescent exercise offers best long-term protection for bones

Running economy 1

Running Economy 1: How to make headway on improving running efficiency: can freeloading African women provide some important clues?

Running economy 2

Running Economy 2: How to make headway on improving running efficiency: can freeloading African women provide some important clues?

Menstrual problems

Why synchronised swimmers are protected from menstrual problems

Knee joints

Knee Joints: Knee instability has more to do with work than sport

Sex and sports injuries

No major sex divide in sports injuries

HRT

HRT maintains muscle after menopause

Crocodile soup

The athletic world reacted with a mixture of derision and skepticism when it learned that famed Chinese running coach Ma Junren was giving his world-champion female athletes turtles' blood in hopes of enhancing their performances, but scientists in Cambridge, England have recently learned that a turtle-blood cocktail may be no laughing matter. That's because they've discovered that the blood of another reptile - the crocodile - may eventually improve athletic prowess.

ultra-distance competitions | female athletes

Ultra-distance competitions - Go long, young woman!

Fat-burning after ovulation

Female athletes fire up fat burning after ovulation, but does it make any difference to weight loss or competitive performance?

Caffeine

Caffeine: Does caffeine boost competitive female athletes?

The legs of female dancers

female dancers legs

Crash training: wang and qu

Crash Training: Wang And Qu: It's the question on the lips of many elite female (and male) runners these days: will I ever be able to run as fast as Wang and Qu?

Martial arts injuries

Martial arts injuries: When males and females take up martial arts, who gets hurt?

Training secrets

Training Secrets: Get out of the gym and on to the water!

Amenorrhoea

Amenorrhoea: Does amenorrhoea increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in female athletes?

Menstruation & exercise

Why 'the curse' is often lifted for female athletes

Marijuana

Marijuana shown to be a gateway to steroid use in Norwegian teens

Strength training

Strength training reveals strange sex bias

Diet and exercise

Diet And Exercise: How understanding protein dynamics can aid muscle and strength development

Bone health

Bone Health: Osteoporosis ('brittle bones') isn't just a problem for post menopausal women. Both younger women and men are at risk from this disease.

Distance running & testosterone

Distance Running & Testosterone: Can distance running determine the sex of your children

Olympics Sex test

Olympics Sex Test: Why the Olympic sex test is outmoded, unnecessary and even harmful.

Wheel chair athletes training

Wheel Chair Athletes Training: A strength and sprint training programme for pre-elite wheelchair athletes

female endurance running

Female Endurance Running: Why is it that women don't slow down as much as men do when they go for the long one?

female endurance running

Female Endurance Running: Why is it that women don't slow down as much as men do when they go for the long one?

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