Why are women training and eating like a man? We are not small men!
This may seem a blatantly obvious statement, but for years the fitness industry and professionals have trained and treated women the same as men. Exercise wise and nutritionally. Stacy T. Sims, a nutritionist scientist and exercise Physiologist, who also trained as an athlete competing in triathlons, including the Ironman World Championships spent years training and fuelling herself like a man because that's what everyone did but she suffered because of it. Some races she would feel great. But others, especially those that were in the week or so before her period started, were awful. She couldn't handle the heat (Even...