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What is holding women back from reaching their full potential in sports? Is it the burden of waxing and waning hormones that move the goal posts in every stage of life? Lack of access to gear designed for the female body? Or the notion that women are playing catch up after being discouraged from living an active lifestyle for generations?
It’s all that and more. That’s what science writer and Women’s Running contributor Christine Yu argues in her new book Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes. The book takes a 360-degree look at women in sports, examining what athletes have been told in the past, what researchers and innovators are doing today to make sports better for girls and women, and what questions still need to be answered in the future about female physiology to maximize the population’s potential. Yu examines female physiology as…
