The Female Athlete's Body Book

by Gloria Beim and Ruth Winter

Offers advice on topics including: how to minimize injury while enhancing sports performance? nutrition and training for top performance and lifelong health; the specific needs of younger, pregnant,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071411755
• ISBN13: 9780071411752
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

It's about time!

This is the first book that I've found that is by both a sports authority, sports enthusiast and well known medical writer. It's is great to have a source of information that is both credible, easily searchable and very useful to me as both an athelete and a women! Great job!

A must read!

This book is awesome! I just read the section on knee injuries and learned what I should have known last year before I underwent ACL reconstruction. Dr Beim's explanations are very clear and readable. This is the kind of information you need to be your own advocate when visiting the doc to discuss your injury. It's so important to be armed with this kind of powerful information when you are choosing a surgeon. I sure wish I had read this book and knew what to ask my Doc BEFORE my surgery. I'm sure it would have saved me from having to go under the knife twice!I highly recommend this book for every active female who wants to be proactive in her own health care choices! It's also a pearl for learning how to listen to your body to prevent alot of those self-induced, over use injuries so common to the average athlete.READ THIS BOOK!

If you're an active woman, you should read this book...

I was so impressed with both the amount of information in this book and the ease of finding information specific to a certain body part or sport. It reads like a casual conversation with a trusted trainer/doctor--all the medical terms are explained well in "normal peoplese" language--and yet it's very comprehensive and does focus both on the prevention and treatment of common sports and activity injuries in females.I played 3 sports in high school, did intramurals in college, and have participated in various adult leagues and other physical activities ever since my college graduation 5 years ago. I seriously wish that someone had given me this book 10 or 15 years ago, so I could have been doing more to protect my body and optimize my performance all this time... and I am buying more copies of this book to give out to all of my active girlfriends for their next holiday/birthday.

Great reference book! written in words I can understand

I loved this book! It was easy to read and understand and I was able to reference it according to the sports that I participate in. The material was written in a concise, interesting manner and it was not overly detailed. I especially appreciated the chapter that focuses on chronic conditions that can affect me during various sports, as I have mild arthritis in my neck. The exercises that pertain to this problem have already helped!

Good for the Injury-Prone Weekend Warrior

I got this book for my girlfriend. While not a competitve athlete she does play several sports and has been injured in all of them. I liked the fact that this book was written by a female doctor/athlete. A large part of the book is broken down by sport and explains the injuries typical of each one along with tips on prevention. My "walk it off" advice never gets a good reaction so I'm counting on this book to reduce future injuries.