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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
The alternating and normal hammer curls are both good exercises for developing and keeping the biceps strong.
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
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
The barbell curl is an excellent exercise for developing strength in the biceps of the upper arms.
Women's barbell military press
The barbell military press has no peer amongst other upper body shoulder exercises.
Women's barbell row
The barbell row is an important exercise for the upper back.
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
The dumbbell bench press is a fine alternative to the barbell version of the exercise.
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
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
Developing the upper and lower back will mean doing rows of all forms.
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 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 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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