The Female Body Bible: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller

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Each chapter is carefully set out to guide you, supported by the authors sharing lived experiences from themselves and their clients. This book is wonderfully empowering, it has given me huge insight into how my body works and how I can help myself be stronger, fitter and healthier. My only wish is I could have had it as a teenager when I very sadly gave up competitive swimming because I didn't like the way it made me look, and had no clue how immensely important it was to me both physically and mentally. I can't wait to give it to my daughters, so they don't make the same mistake. Louise Minchin, journalist and author of Dare to Tri The data gap in women's health remains huge: in sports science and medicine in 2020 as little as 6% of research was conducted exclusively on women. Worse still, of that 6%, only 8% was found to be of high enough quality for the outcomes to be trusted. Whether for my own understanding, training and general awareness of my body or to empower those I coach and train. More than once I have gone “No way! That cannot be the case, how didn’t I know that?”

This isn't just a book, it's a movement - a call to action. Every woman deserves to know more about her body and everyone, regardless of their sex, needs to know more about women's bodies to remove the vestiges of secrecy and shame once and for all. This is the playbook of all the elements that go into getting the most out of your body, and a selection of strategies that you can try to find out what works for you and your incredible body. There were things I have learnt from this book that I wish I knew from an early life. (Covers things like puberty, menstruation). We have thoroughly enjoyed working on this project (The Well HQ) and long may it continue. Professor Joanna Wakefield Scurr, University of Portsmouth Having worked and coached in the fields of sport and fitness for over 25 years, I now have a 'go to' resource with all the current best practice and information in one place. Plus, it's easy to follow, lighthearted in places, highly readable and engaging.This isn't just a book, it's a movement - a call to action. Every woman deserves to know more about her body and everyone, regardless of their sex, needs to know more about women's bodies to remove the vestiges of secrecy and shame once and for all. This is the playbook for getting the most out of your body, offering strategies for you to find out what works best for you. You need this book! It pioneers a much-needed revolution for women's bodies. Maisie Hill, author of Period Power Body literacy is something every woman is entitled to. Health and fitness are not the same as aesthetics and photogenics. Instead of prioritising how a body looks we need to focus on how it feels and functions. How it works. When we listen to the body, embrace it and nurture it, health and fitness will follow.

Worksheet: How to have productive conversations with female athletes about any aspect of women's healthWhat has been so rewarding working with Emma Ross is how she was able to make any audience be prepared to think differently when it came to the development and support of the female athlete. David Faulkner OLY: Head of Performance, The FA, Women’s Professional Game, Para and Futsal Team Leader GB Women’s Football – Tokyo 2020 Olympics Whether you read cover to cover, dip into chapter headings or keep as your reference guide it will change your coaching of girl and women athletes. The book also seems to promote a bit of fear-mongering. There were several times in the book when the author made it sound like women HAD to do this thing immediately or our health would suffer e.g. ACL injury-preventing exercises without any explanation as to what these are. When I googled it I found lunges and squats were both excellent exercises for this and I don't know any active woman who doesn't do these moves! I just found it crazy how the author hadn't mentioned this or given any help as to how many to do etc and it just felt very insincere and like a scare tactic. As someone who suffers with endometriosis, I'm more aware of my cycle than most, but this book goes so much further than that. Emma, Baz and Bella make it so easy to use this information in real life.

Confidently communicate with your health and fitness practitioners, friends, partners or colleagues about health issues you may be facing confidently communicate with your health and fitness practitioners, friends, partners or colleagues about health issues you may be facing I don't want to spoil anything for anyone who wants to read this as I would highly recommend the whole thing without skipping anything! Finally, fitness advice that women can trust ... Drawing on science and their experiences, this formidable trio have produced a furious, taboo-busting book. The Times Baz, Bella and Emma are my go-to experts and with The Female Body Bible, they can be yours too. Judy Murray, tennis coachThe Well wrote The Female Body Bible as a revolution! This book is designed to revolutionise our understanding of women’s bodies in sport, and how get the best out of them (and avoid the pitfalls sometimes associated with being the driver of a female body! What is The Female Body Bible about? I was blown away by the learnings I took from the SmartHER workshop, hearing from the incredible experts in the field of female health and sport was amazing and it's so exciting that there is such potential still to be discovered by increasing our knowledge of the impact of female health on not only sporting performance but in our everyday lives! The landscape is certainly changing and with Dr Emma Ross and the team driving it the future looks incredible bright for females in every sport and at every level. Emma Wiggs, MBE, Paralympic gold medallist This book will help you create healthy habits that consider all aspects of female health at every life stage, including how to: