Good for a Girl A Woman Running in a Man's World

Lauren Fleshman, world-class runner, author of Good for a Girl, A Woman Running in a Man's World.

I was struck in reading your book, Lauren, by a big chunk of your book is a very powerful and insightful explanation of the difference in the physiological trajectories of young women and young men.

And you make this, you were talking about your time at Stanford, you know, the young men are, a man or whatever they are between, of college age is at their physical peak. They get better almost automatically every year. They're full of all the, every positive hormone known to man. And whereas the women are going through a much more complicated process.

The second thing that I took from reading both of your books was particularly from Lauren's was this, this notion, this idea that I talked about very briefly before about that you spent a lot of time on the book, that the trajectory of young men and women is different and that many women have this kind of in their late teens, early twenties, how a kind of performance plateau.

And I think that it is important that parents recognize they have agency, that they don't have to go along with everything that, you know, that extra strength and conditioning training or, you know, weight workout that's might be helpful, the supplemental training, like the soccer club in my town that offers six year olds, that they can say no to that.

I found her book to be absolutely fascinating. Good for a girl, a woman running in a man's world.

Check out the new book Good for a Girl, A Woman Running in a Man's World. I think a must read for any female athletes out there, anyone who coaches athletes and anyone, everyone else.