The Female Body Bible: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller

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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. This book is wonderfully empowering, it has given me huge insight into how my body works and how I can help myself be stronger, fitter and healthier. My only wish is I could have had it as a teenager when I very sadly gave up competitive swimming because I didn't like the way it made me look, and had no clue how immensely important it was to me both physically and mentally. I can't wait to give it to my daughters, so they don't make the same mistake. Louise Minchin, journalist and author of Dare to Tri We have thoroughly enjoyed working on this project (The Well HQ) and long may it continue. Professor Joanna Wakefield Scurr, University of Portsmouth

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. Desire to equip yourself with the knowledge to manage injuries that women are more prone to than men The book has lots of easy to digest information and advice women can take away and add to their own fitness regime. Instead of our menstrual cycle being an inconvenience and someone taboo we shouldn’t talk about, the book highlights the menstrual cycle’s superpower. I didn’t know my body will gain more strength and muscle if I just focus my strength workouts at a specific time in my cycle before I read this book.The 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? 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. Mastering your Menstrual Cycle', 'Your Body and Birth Control', 'Perfecting your Pelvic Floor', 'Supporting Your Breasts Well', 'Bodies That Move Well', 'Eating Well', 'Sleeping Well' and 'A Woman's Brain'. The differences that originally stopped women from taking part in exercise and competition have been overlooked and ignored completely.

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. 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. It also goes on and on about all the good stuff periods do without adequately discussing how painful they are e.g. equal to being shot or conditions like endometriosis. It's kind of like a poster book saying "get periods they're great!" without any of the actual pains or serious side effects given adequate weight. Considering we don't see any of the stuff our body is doing I would've preferred a heftier mention of the struggles of them instead of skipping over them. Video: How to talk about the taboos female athletes face in Sport. (Internal: what do athletes think Q&A) Equip you with knowledge to manage injuries that women are more prone to than men… all while being your best self.

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There were things I have learnt from this book that I wish I knew from an early life. (Covers things like puberty, menstruation). I was blown away by the learnings I took from the SmartHER workshop, hearing from the incredible experts in the field of female health and sport was amazing and it's so exciting that there is such potential still to be discovered by increasing our knowledge of the impact of female health on not only sporting performance but in our everyday lives! The landscape is certainly changing and with Dr Emma Ross and the team driving it the future looks incredible bright for females in every sport and at every level. Emma Wiggs, MBE, Paralympic gold medallist women's health and providing reliable, evidence based information. She is colleague, a friend and somebody whose information I would trust! Dr Rupy Aujla, MBBS, BSc, MRCGP, Founder of The Doctor’s Kitchen Baz, Bella and Emma are my go-to experts and with The Female Body Bible, they can be yours too. Judy Murray, tennis coach 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.

confidently communicate with health and fitness practitioners, friends, partners or colleagues about health issues you may be facing This book will help you create healthy habits that consider all aspects of female health at every life stage, including how to: Confidently communicate with your health and fitness practitioners, friends, partners or colleagues about health issues you may be facing Change the language used to talk to adolescent girls about their bodies, engage them in meaningful conversations and equip them with the confidence to advocate for themselvesI think the best thing is that it’s bought so many conversations to the fore of our minds and conversations. No longer do you feel embarrassed to talk about your period and how you feel absolutely exhausted and can’t complete a training session, or that you need to skip that session otherwise it’s going to cause more detriment than benefit. Authors, Baz Moffat, Dr Emma Ross and Dr Bella Smith started writing this book in 2021, and has been a couple of years in the making, and they can hardly wait to share it with you! Body literacy is something every woman is entitled to. Health and fitness are not the same as aesthetics and photogenics. Instead of prioritising how a body looks we need to focus on how it feels and functions. How it works. When we listen to the body, embrace it and nurture it, health and fitness will follow.