More than 40 years after Title IX greatly expanded the
opportunities for female athletes, the gender pay gap in sports is in the public consciousness like never before.
Caster Semenya will bid to move the spotlight from new IAAF rules
for female athletes who have high testosterone levels firmly back to the track as the Diamond League gets under way in Doha on Friday.
For instance, we might set the maximum fat level
for a female athlete at 18 %, and her maximum strength loss on 3 rep maxes for compound movements to 10 % of her peak.
Trainers lower the
bar for female athletes resulting in bad eccentric strength, which in turn makes them bad decelerators and greatly increases potential for an ACL injury.
When it comes to dietary fat
recommendations for female athletes, there is a lot of good data that demonstrates the cardiovascular and performance benefits of eating the «right size» amount of healthy fat - not too much and not too little.
The venture will reportedly be backed by Job One, with Knockout Times, a media
platform for female athletes, serving as its first advertiser.
The percentage of women coached by women has declined to an all - time low, even while Title IX, which prohibits sex - based discrimination in any education program or activity that receives federal dollars, has dramatically increased participation
numbers for female athletes.
While Ronda Rousey has become one of the highest - paid fighters in the UFC and Serena Williams has been known to sell out the women's final before the men's, it hasn't all been good
news for female athletes.
More recently, a study reported in the American Journal of Sports Medicine suggests that the ACL injury
rate for female athletes, particularly non-contact ACL injuries, can be significantly reduced if the athlete follows a specific exercise program called the Prevent Injury and Enhance Performance (PEP) program before practices and games.
She has lectured internationally on the topic of female athletes health, and was the organizer of Women in Women's Health, NYC, 2016, an international professional conference to promote integrative
care for female athletes through the lifespan.
The Washington - based advocacy organization cites a range of what it perceives as offenses related to education, such as efforts by the Bush administration to zero out funding for the Women's Educational Equity Act and to «weaken Title IX
protections for female athletes,» and its failure to investigate the exclusion of females from certain education programs.
It is particularly
important for female athletes, who are predisposed to instability or dislocation of the kneecap (patella), pain and problems under the kneecap, and non-contact injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), especially in sports like soccer and basketball that require twisting and cutting.
When it comes to dietary fat
recommendations for female athletes, there is a lot of good data that demonstrates the cardiovascular and performance benefits of eating the «right size» amount of healthy fat — not too much and not too little.
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For female athletes, it's also useful to consider where she is in her menstrual cycle, as there are benefits to lower carb eating during the luteal phase for fat burning.