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A review by justiceofkalr
Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life by Stacy T. Sims, PhD
3.0
So sometimes it's super annoying trying to find fitness books that are not either super manly muscle machine bench-press a truck kind of books or on the other end of the spectrum the bikini body motivational bullshit cutesy puke fest. This book does a pretty good job of focusing on women athletes without the overly feminine fluff or the macho crap.
But. I sometimes wasn't sure who this book was aimed at within the female athlete category. There's a lot of overview of different things and exercise examples, which makes it feel like a book aimed at beginner athletes. There's also a lot of in depth blood work and pee stick testing that you probably don't care about unless you're more of an advanced athlete who is looking to step it up. It made the book feel slightly unfocused.
Also. Birth control. She talks a lot about women's cycles and how different hormone levels create different physiological needs for athletes. But then she essential brushes off birth control with a short horror story of how someone she knew got really fucked up and it somehow had to do with the pill. Okay? It would have been nice if she'd talked a little more about how it effects hormones and how it changes women's athletic needs based on that. There's a lot of women who use the pill and her brushing it off like that was frustrating.
Overall though I really liked how because of her background in science she gives some decent scientific reasoning behind her recommendations, particularly concerning hydration. She takes into effect the physiological differences and how they create different needs for women when training than advice that's often given based on male athletes. I skipped the chapters on menopause and pregnancy as these are not relevant to me, so I can't comment on them at all. Most of her other chapters though seemed fairly decent.
But. I sometimes wasn't sure who this book was aimed at within the female athlete category. There's a lot of overview of different things and exercise examples, which makes it feel like a book aimed at beginner athletes. There's also a lot of in depth blood work and pee stick testing that you probably don't care about unless you're more of an advanced athlete who is looking to step it up. It made the book feel slightly unfocused.
Also. Birth control. She talks a lot about women's cycles and how different hormone levels create different physiological needs for athletes. But then she essential brushes off birth control with a short horror story of how someone she knew got really fucked up and it somehow had to do with the pill. Okay? It would have been nice if she'd talked a little more about how it effects hormones and how it changes women's athletic needs based on that. There's a lot of women who use the pill and her brushing it off like that was frustrating.
Overall though I really liked how because of her background in science she gives some decent scientific reasoning behind her recommendations, particularly concerning hydration. She takes into effect the physiological differences and how they create different needs for women when training than advice that's often given based on male athletes. I skipped the chapters on menopause and pregnancy as these are not relevant to me, so I can't comment on them at all. Most of her other chapters though seemed fairly decent.