Roar
2016 • 304 pages

Ratings4

Average rating3.5

15

This book is fully geared towards women doing endurance sports. It's got some interesting stuff on how menstrual cycles + hormone stuff can affect the body and postmenopausal considerations. I was annoyed throughout after the weight training debacle, the fatphobic stuff, some boring gender generalizations, and why the heck was all the dairy products mentioned were specifically low-fat? I also wanted a clearer citation style, there are some resources listed for each chapter but in the text it was just “and this one study...”

October 21, 2021Report this review