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1900 Woman's Physical Development and Emile Zola
by LostCentury
posted April 26, 2011 at 10:30am

1900 Woman's Physical Development magazine cover with motto "Ugliness a Sin, Health is Beauty," and article by Emile Zola, "Why Modern Sports Benefit Woman."...more

1896 article - Regular Exercise for Girls
by LostCentury
posted April 25, 2011 at 10:23am

January 14, 1896 – Harper’s Young People Regularity in bodily training is the “golden rule” of all physicians and gymnasium teachers. “A little exercise every day, taken at a certain time,” is worth more than all the spasmodic exertio...more

Ask Lauren Fleshman: Can Max Weights and Marathon Training Play Nice Together?
by Ask Lauren Fleshman
posted April 19, 2011 at 5:40pm

Q: Lauren, I will be training for the Chicago Marathon this October. I will be running five days and resting or cross-training the other two. I want to add barbell squats and seated calves to my training regimen. I will be doing both on the same day onc...more

Women who exercise (and sing)
by Mariah Burton Nelson: BEYOND WORKOUTS - Think of Yourself as an Athlete
posted April 17, 2011 at 8:40pm

One of many pleasures of public speaking is engaging an audience in something new and slightly risky. A tension builds: Who will participate? What will happen next? Most adults do not consider themselves singers, and are reluctant even to sing Happy Birt...more

Weighing the options
by Stephanie Perleberg: Believe and Run On!
posted April 15, 2011 at 8:35pm

There is one topic in sport that really doesn’t get much focus. Sure, there have been hundreds of discussions that focus on current athletes nutrition and eating disorders but what about those former athletes? How does a person who has been competing at...more

Intervals on a new treadmill
by Run Girl Run
posted April 14, 2011 at 12:51pm

After a busy day of work yesterday, I was more than ready to head to the fitness center and kick my butt with some intervals. The fitness center where I live is free for residents, which is awesome, but the equipment isn't the best. It's very old and so...more

Fuel for intervals
by Run Girl Run
posted April 13, 2011 at 1:10pm

Do you know what drives me bananas? After I wait forever for my work computer to boot up and I'm finally connected to the VPN, I get a little pop up message that says updates have finished installing and I need to reboot the computer. Serrrrriously? Yes...more

Do you like large races?
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted April 11, 2011 at 12:47pm

I spent the day at one of my favourite parks yesterday watching healthy people (no envy!) running in Ireland's largest 10k. Phoenix Park is the largest enclosed green space in any European city so it's the perfect place for a race, although I'm not sure w...more

Sports Injuries we hate
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted April 7, 2011 at 12:49pm

Derval O Rourke European Championships zimbioThis is a guest post from Don Connigale, a freelance journalist, copywriter and regular runner who is currently working with a number of clients including No Win No Fee UKKNEE PAINKnee pain comes up next, in pa...more

FIT Project (Dallas Edition) part two
by Sarah Stanley Inspired
posted April 5, 2011 at 2:29pm

Race report alert! Don’t worry, it’s mostly photos And beautiful ones at that! This stop of the FIT Project is in Dallas, Tex. What’s the FIT Project? Glad you asked, here is the quick scoop on it. Quick recap? I missed my goal by six seconds. B...more

Brianna Glenn's Blog: Counting Calories
by My so-called FABULOUS life: Brianna Glenn
posted March 31, 2011 at 5:25pm

The other day I decided to download a calorie counter app on my ipad. My reason for doing this started off as curiosity of what percentage my diet broke down to, in terms of protein, carbs, and fat. What I was going to do with this information once I ha...more

Pain and sacred spaces
by Byline to Finish Line
posted March 24, 2011 at 3:25pm

Where would be a good place to puke? It was a thought that crossed my mind during the fifth of six 800-meter intervals on the treadmill this morning. Would I have time and opportunity to rush into the locker room? Were there any trash cans around? When d...more

This week’s lesson: How to be brave
by Byline to Finish Line
posted March 15, 2011 at 1:47pm

Reviewing the workouts he had given me for the week, I told my coach that Monday’s swim workout was going to be hard. He had assigned me 400 yard sprints — at 20 seconds faster than last week’s pace. Um, seriously? Yes. Seriously. “Be brave,”...more

Running Hills
by Run Girl Run
posted March 15, 2011 at 1:45pm

When I run by myself, I tend to walk up parts of some of the bigger hills on my route to help save my legs so they don't fatigue too quickly. (Source) My hills are smaller than these I never really thought that my quick walk breaks could be having a neg...more

Girls Sports – Introducing the concept of sports & fitness
by Game On! Sports Camp 4 Girls
posted March 14, 2011 at 2:26pm

A Short Poem Look out yonder and ye shall see, the smiles, the sweat, the muscles, the glee. The healthy, the toned, the academic progress they boast, the sportsmanship, discipline, and teamwork we toast. The friendships, the memories, for kids ta...more

Implications of White House Report on fitness and health
by After Atalanta
posted March 11, 2011 at 6:22pm

The White House released its Report on Women recently. (That seems like a rather casual title for a White House report. Perhaps it is called something different?)Anyway, not surprisingly, some things change, and some things stay the same--and some things ...more

Trail running and effing ankle rolls
by The Glowing Edge
posted March 9, 2011 at 6:08pm

New training tactics, new hazards. Also new curse words. Well, maybe the same old curse words. All of it is worth the fabulous experience of running a trail, and with the advent of spring (and no more local gym membership) I’m totally off the treadm...more

Perspiration drives inspiration: Sports can make you happy (and more successful)
by Fair Game News
posted March 9, 2011 at 12:55pm

By Laura Pappano Just in time to save us from seasonal affective disorder, writer and blogger Mina Samuels has published Run Like a Girl, a relentlessly optimistic book (doesn’t mean there aren’t trials) about the transformative power of ...more

International Women’s Day: Physical Activity Equality for ALL
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted March 8, 2011 at 2:15pm

Blog written by Kinesiology graduate student and doctoral candidate Chelsey Thul, M.A. Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), which honors the economic, political and social achievements of women throughout the world. According to the IWD website...more

Working with a Personal Trainer
by Run Girl Run
posted March 8, 2011 at 2:01pm

Good morning and happy Tuesday! I'm happy to say my legs recovered fairly well from Saturday's speedy long run and I was able to do my easy run yesterday at a pace much quicker than I'm used to. If that's going to be the trend, I'll definitely be doing m...more

Why I Yoga
by Run Girl Run
posted March 4, 2011 at 5:16pm

After four days of hard workouts, with three of those days being two-a-days, yoga was just what my body needed last night. It was a calming, restorative class that helped clear my mind after a busy week at work and helped loosen my legs after a week of h...more

Stretching in the office
by Run Girl Run
posted March 4, 2011 at 1:55am

My legs hate me. They're sore and achy and punishing me for jumping back into hardcore training after two weeks of rest. I took them on a super short recovery run this morning to help shake them out, followed that up with some very gentle foam rolling a...more

Brianna Glenn is a Working Girl
by My so-called FABULOUS life: Brianna Glenn
posted March 3, 2011 at 9:42pm

I'm sure everyone that stops by this blog is aware of what my day job is. But like every good working woman, I also have my side hustles. One such hustle involves a bit of sports modeling from time to time. Now don't get me wrong, I don't consider myse...more

Mice Were Sacrificed...But the News is Good
by RunLikeAGirl
posted March 3, 2011 at 11:19am

a new study confirms the anti-aging impact of our athletics......more

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