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4.47 AVERAGE
4.47 AVERAGE
I really enjoyed Good for a Girl. Fleshman has a strong, clear voice and the book is easy to read and follow. I'm very much not into sports, but I found Fleshman's story engrossing and compelling. She does an excellent job of tying her own story to the larger issues effecting female athletes. I've definitely gained a greater appreciation for the sport of running. I really, really appreciated her approach to listening to her body and her activism.
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4.5 stars (you all know I save my 5s)...a broad and often specific overview of physical, mental and emotional pressures of female athletes (runners in this case). Discussions of eating disorders, overtraining, and RED-S (female athlete triad) are the focus. As well as the continued overwhelming percentage of men coaching female athletes and having little knowledge of the sex differences. The female negative self-talk, societal ideals, and pressures of striving for perfection are lessons that carry over to any sport and athlete, competitive or just a recreator.
This book spoke to me on so many levels. It spoke to the ten year old little girl who first put on her running shoes and felt excited by the new sport. It spoke to the high school and collegiate athlete who plastered posters of the pros on her walls and ran through muddy trails and hot track workouts and compared her body and times to those she saw around her. And it spoke to the post-collegiate woman I am now, learning a whole new way to have a relationship with the sport and myself. Fleshman is not only an accomplished athlete but a phenomenal writer (as I knew from voraciously reading her RW column in high school). This is new essential reading for fans of the sport, and fills in the female perspective that’s long been missing from other running classics. It she’d been light on the world of the pro runners we’ve looked up to for years and fights back against what has long been held as doctrine for the way we train, especially for women. I also thought it struck the perfect balance or memoir and manifesto, balancing out the hard truths and research with a much needed dose of heart and reflection on the lifelong sport.
This book is a fantastic memoir and provided me with a paradigm shift on how women's athletics are actually designed in a way that is harmful to women and girls. Through her own narrative, Lauren Fleshman illustrates the issues with a sporting world built around men and its impact on girls and women, starting in middle school. It touches on puberty, hormones and body development into women's 20s, body confidence, eating disorders, pregnancy, and predatory coaching, in addition to other topics. If you are a supporter of women and girls in sports, you should read this.
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Lauren fleshman is clearly fast AND super bright, to write this book and achieve all she has on the track and in business. I enjoyed her story and how she had to learn how to get more out of running other than just winning (especially when winning =$)
I appreciated her tackling the problems with changing bodies, EDs, and unrealistic pressure and expectations put on young women in sport. There were some things I wanted more on, but overall it was a good balance of information and her own personal story.
I appreciated her tackling the problems with changing bodies, EDs, and unrealistic pressure and expectations put on young women in sport. There were some things I wanted more on, but overall it was a good balance of information and her own personal story.
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced