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The Female Body Bible: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller

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harness your hormones to improve your menstrual cycle symptoms, work productivity and exercise habits This book is a must for all sports coaches and exercise professionals. It takes you on a journey to understand the female body and performance. How to work more effectively with girls and women, supporting them, creating coaching conversations, challenging your thinking and practice.

Having worked and coached in the fields of sport and fitness for over 25 years, I now have a 'go to' resource with all the current best practice and information in one place. Plus, it's easy to follow, lighthearted in places, highly readable and engaging. Baz, Bella, and Emma are pioneering a much-needed revolution for women’s bodies in sport. They’re also my go-to experts and with The Female Body Bible, they can be yours too.It’s gratifying that in their new book, The Female Body Bible, the NHS GP Dr Bella Smith, the sports research scientist Dr Emma Ross and the athletic coach Baz Moffat write as though every reader is a potential Olympian. “We set very high standards for women,” they say.

Many things I could resonate with from my youth and things to now help me prepare for the next stages in life for myself and clients! Each chapter is carefully set out to guide you, supported by the authors sharing lived experiences from themselves and their clients. Baz, Bella and Emma are my go-to experts and with The Female Body Bible, they can be yours too. Judy Murray, tennis coach change the language used to talk to adolescent girls about their bodies and give them the confidence to advocate for themselvesThe Well wrote The Female Body Bible as a revolution! This book is designed to revolutionise our understanding of women’s bodies in sport, and how get the best out of them (and avoid the pitfalls sometimes associated with being the driver of a female body! What is The Female Body Bible about? As someone who suffers with endometriosis, I'm more aware of my cycle than most, but this book goes so much further than that. Emma, Baz and Bella make it so easy to use this information in real life. The book is very anti-anything to control your periods and after a whole chapter trying to dissuade you from using any medicine says "do what's best for you" when the author is clearly very against that. Not really a positive message for young girl or anyone to be reading The book also seems to promote a bit of fear-mongering. There were several times in the book when the author made it sound like women HAD to do this thing immediately or our health would suffer e.g. ACL injury-preventing exercises without any explanation as to what these are. When I googled it I found lunges and squats were both excellent exercises for this and I don't know any active woman who doesn't do these moves! I just found it crazy how the author hadn't mentioned this or given any help as to how many to do etc and it just felt very insincere and like a scare tactic. Although it’s beneficial for professional and semi-professional athletes, I personally appreciated how Baz, Emma and Bella identified with the struggles everyday active women face. It’s a completely non-prescriptive book about health and fitness. The focus is all about what will work in your life, enabling you to keep doing sport and exercise you enjoy.

Whether you read cover to cover, dip into chapter headings or keep as your reference guide it will change your coaching of girl and women athletes. A lot of revelations whilst reading this book, especially into the power and impact a woman's cycle has on her performance. I didn't know our period symptoms aren't due to our bodies filling with hormones but our bodies dealing with a big drop in hormones. I found the section on injuries women are most likely to face and how to mitigate this very useful. The section on nutrition was useful too and something I've been on a journey with as I increase my training. Merging the latest science with the combined experience of its three expert authors: NHS doctor Bella Smith, sports research scientist Dr Emma Ross and athletic coach Baz Moffat, The Female Body Bible busts the myths and taboos that persist around women's bodies. The Eve Appeal is a gynaecological cancer charity and we have worked with Bella for over 4 years. She's a trusted and serious voice - but equally effectively engages with a group of teenagers on menstrual wellbeing or group of 50+ on the impacts of the menopause and how to manage it. Athena Lamnisos, CEO, The Eve AppealFinally, fitness advice that women can trust ... Drawing on science and their experiences, this formidable trio have produced a furious, taboo-busting book. The Times The authors seem to want every woman to wholeheartedly love their period and verged on toxic positivity. Women do not have to love their periods and body neutrality is proven to be a much better approach as there are less extreme emotions and shame. It's fine to hate your period. They are painful, messy and an inconvenience but this book feels like an always commercial where every woman is skipping through fields so happy to have her period! It's not helpful.

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