Female athletes are known to be many manly titles. Many might already have an image in how muscular women athletes can be. People picture a hard core girl with crazy calfs and abs. Female athletes are supposedly these type of women who only care about being fit. According to society female athletes are hard as stone inside and out. Female athletes are easily misunderstood as tomboys because most of them love to compete with male athletes. There is no doubt that female athletes love to beat and win
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People are always seen one way‚ but when getting to know them it completely changes. Stereotypes are a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing‚ based on truth but exaggerated. A misconception is a view or opinion that is incorrect because it is based on faulty thinking or understanding‚ formed from having stereotypes. These are formed when people think a person is just like the rest of the group they surround themselves with. This is where the
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The female athlete triad is a health condition in which active women experience three inter-related disorders due to unhealthy body weight and eating habits. In the case of the triad‚ the word active refers to females who display moderate to high intensity levels of performance. The rate of performance must be high in order to counterbalance the decrease in calorie intake. Females who perform at a high intensity are at risk for the triad since they do not take in enough calories to fulfill the
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by cameras‚ social networking apps‚ and images that tell them how to look and behave. The world of competitive sports adds significantly to the already existing pressures of today’s society. Unfortunately‚ female athletes often succumb to these pressures and take drastic measures to supposedly look and perform their best. Young people need to know that they dont need to alter themselves to be the best. Action needs to be taken to put young female athletes on the path to realization and healthy lifestyles
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Training the Female Athlete Stephen R. Gonzalez American Military University Abstract Should methodology and programming differ between athletes based on gender? This question is on the rise as the number of females who compete in sports and athletics continues to grow. A review of recent trends and research depicts the answer as‚ yes – most definitely. It is becoming apparent that females are significantly more at risk of injury and injuries that lead to athletic attrition. In order to
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The female athlete triad is made up of three medical conditions that are becoming increasingly common in active teen girls: Eating disorders‚ Amenorrhea or lack of menstrual periods and Osteoporosis or low bone mass. Low-calorie diets are usually the first sign of eating disorders. Along with diets‚ excessive exercise or obsession with exercising can also be another sign of the Female athlete triad. Teenage girls that are lower weight but exercise constantly are the individuals with the higher risk
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everywhere‚ on magazines‚ TV‚ and billboards. I have never been a size 0 but after seeing that all the girls on the media were so skinny and "perfect" my goal became to look just like them so I could get the same attention they got. It seemed that in order to get attention and acceptance you needed to look a certain way. As an adult now‚ I have witnessed the tragic effect that appearances on the media have on people. They try
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Training the Female Athlete In this Podcast‚ Peter Melanson interviews Diane Vives – director of Vives Training Systems in Austin‚ Texas‚ on training female athletes. Peter asks Diane a series of questions in regards to female athletes versus male athletes on how to train better‚ the differences between training‚ and the types of injuries caused from the training between men and women athletes. Diane answers with questions with research and studies that supports her theories and reasoning’s to
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The female athlete triad might occur if over-training is maintained over a long period of time and accompanied by other issues. The triad is a combination of three disorders. These are disordered eating in which not enough calories are taken in to fuel energy needs‚ disturbed menstrual cycle and low bone density. Athletes at highest risk of the triad are gymnasts‚ dancers‚ swimmers‚ runners or any sport that places extreme emphasis on weight or maximum performance according to the Female Athlete
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the representation of female athletes in the media‚ from television coverage and newspapers to magazines and websites. From ancient Greece where it was not allowed for women to partake in or even watch the Olympic Games and the power and independence of the Amazonian tribal warrior woman‚ to present day and the struggles with underrepresentation and misrepresentation of female athletes in sport media (George‚ Hartley‚ Paris‚ 2001; Creedon‚ 1994; Bernstein‚ 2002). The mass media is a sociocultural machine
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