Women, Weight, Sports Performance and Body Image
Women athletes tend to be somehow more image-conscious than men. Their concerns mostly come from coaches pressure, peer pressure, athletic body stereotypes, modern society standards or just marketing, social media and advertisement. Here, I will not be the first nor the last to touch upon such a multi-angled topic and heavily discussed issue. I will talk briefly about weight and sports performance rather than weight and athletic image. These are two completely different things. If you are a female athlete and you are exercising to lose weight, this article is not for you at this point. If you are a female athlete and you are exercising for performance, hold on tight and read on. First and foremost, performance takes into account the duration/frequency/intensity of the required training for a specific event, it differentiates the body weight from the fat percentage, and it takes into account the individuality of the athlete. All these parameters are hard to put into numbers and