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

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After fading away to just a glimmer, the woman finally finds hope in the care of a doctor who provides a diagnosis and treatment plan: The main character in each story is commonly referred to as 'the woman' they're not even deigned names yet the stories purpose is to lift women up. It's a nice idea, but it didn't quite hit the nail on the head for me. I wasn't nodding along going, "hey, yeah I am pretty awesome and pretty and powerful in my own right and my anxieties are irrelevant!" it was more of a slow shake of the head, disgruntled at the way women were portrayed. Dr. Stacy Sims is a singular voice and an epic intellectual talent in the health and fitness world. As former professional athletes turned fitness entrepreneurs, we have found that her insights into the unique interworkings of the female athletic body were a total game changer. ROAR will help athletes everywhere become faster, stronger, and healthier.” —Juliet and Kelly Starrett, New York Times bestselling author, and cofounders of San Francisco CrossFit and MobilityWOD Other favorites of mine are the stories The Woman Who Walked in Her Husband's Shoes, The Woman Who Was a Featherbrain, and the The Woman Who Was Pigeonholed. But really, they're all terrific. The tales are simple. You might at first glance find the premise a little obvious, but really, taken as a whole, these fables illustrated different aspects of what it means to be a woman, how we are defined by society, ourselves, and each other, and how perception and awareness can change everything. There's a lightness and humor in many stories, even as the situations, taken to their logical (or illogical) conclusion can be nightmarish. Balter, Ariel. "A book review by Ariel Balter: Roar: Thirty Stories, One Roar". New York Journal of Books . Retrieved 17 May 2022.

I ended up loving this entire collection. The thirty stories are a mix of far-fetched, grounded in the familiar, comedic, and painful. All are told in a straight-forward manner, where we take the fantastical elements as reality and are faced with considering how our world's definitions of women's lives and women's roles might look if all the euphemisms and catchphrases for the assumptions and barriers facing women became literal parts of the everyday world. By turns sly, whimsical and affecting, these 30 short stories are an inspiring examination of what it means to be a woman today.If you are a woman who is into fitness, whether new to it or fairly well acquainted, chances are that this book will have something for you. As women age, changes in their hormones impact how their body burns certain fuel. Again, makes sense and actually good to know. I'll be 49 in a few months, and I do feel as if my approach to training and diet has had to change. I felt as if beyond the two things I learned not much else was there. Above a few generalizations about hormones, by her own accounting, each athlete has specific needs, and the only way to fully understand what they need is to get tested and then use the results of those tests to tweak what they are doing. Review : Thirty awe-inspiring stories that every person needs to read to understand woman, not as a gender but woman as a HUMAN BEING. Cecelia Ahern never fails to impress with her storytelling and this is what you can expect from her newly released collection of short stories.

So many of my observations about how I feel now make sense. I workout regularly with my husband, who of course is not subjected to these hormonal shifts, who was certain these fluctuations was "just in my head." Now, I have real answers as to what is going on in my body. I know when to go with the flow, when to train hard, what to eat, drink and how much I need, and how to find and understand metrics that will help me understand what is going on in my body. This book is aimed at Iron(wo)men and the like. I can't really see myself chugging BCAAs, measuring my protein intake or wearing those funny bike pants, but if you do, then this is the book for you. For females, low-carb, high fat and protein diets and intermittent fasting result in muscle loss, not fat loss. Boo. It can pause periods. This is bad. Eat some protein and carbs within half an hour of hardcore exercise. Roar is a collection of fantastical stories, rooted in the real world, in which the unnamed women at the heart of the different tales experience life through a series of metaphors that have somehow become reality.

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What lured me in: the promise of a discussion about adapting around the natural hormonal waves my body experiences month-to-month. That was a big part of what the Reddit chatter had been about. There is one chapter on this (pgs 16-34). I don't know that I want to take Zinc, Magnesium, Omega 3 Fatty Acids, and Aspirin every day for the 7 days leading up to my period. That's a lot of supplements to counteract a bit of a performance slump. But I'm not a professional athlete so **shrug**. All this to say: this chapter didn't do much for me save for validating the dip I see in my physical capabilities each month. Anyone who advises regular intake of medicine looses a lot of credibility in my eyes. Sims advises aspirin for a bunch of stuff - like taking 250 mg aspirin a day for a full week before flying. This feels very wrong to me on a "higher" level. Majority of the stories of these Women were absolutely on point. However, some of them didn't seem to work out for me which maybe due to the fact that I haven't seen or experienced such an environment or prejudiced behaviour towards women in my life. So that is simply my opinion and there is a high chance you might love them.