A few minutes into your high intensity intervals, you notice your legs feel sluggish. “That’s odd,” you think, since you felt fine just a few days earlier. You shrug it off as just a bad day at the gym, and return the next week to do another interval workout. After the first sprint, you can’t …
Women’s nutritional needs are different than men’s, due in part to the menstrual cycle and differences in bone density between the sexes. Inadequate caloric consumption to match the caloric expenditure of running—a common problem among women runners—puts many female runners at risk of nutrient deficiencies that can affect their health and their running performance. Here …
Recommendations for exercise during pregnancy have undergone significant modifications since 1985. Initial guidelines placed restrictions on exercise intensity and duration, limiting women to a heart rate of less than 140 beats per minute and restricting exercise to 15 minutes or less. Following publication of numerous studies that showed maternal benefits from regular exercise during pregnancy …
