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Optimizing Women’s Health and Training
272 pages, 7 11/25 x 9 69/100
14 b/w photographs, 19 b/w line drawings
Paperback
Release Date:21 Nov 2025
ISBN:9781913426750
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Optimizing Women’s Health and Training

Embracing Female Physiology for Performance and Wellbeing

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Handspring Publishing

This detailed, yet approachable guide distils the latest research studies on female physiology and its effects on physical performance and psychology. Using these new findings, it provides a framework for optimizing physical training with the natural cycles of the female body, helping your clients make the most of their individual body-mind system.

It pays special attention to the changing conditions within the female body across different life stages and experiences, and how to best manage/maximize them. This includes the monthly hormone cycle, pregnancy, breastfeeding, menopause as well as contraceptives, conditions like PCOS and endometriosis, and more.

Dr Katja Bartsch is a sports scientist and yoga teacher (E-RYT 500, YACEP). She was trained in Anatomy Trains Structural Integration by Tom Myers and his team. Katja offers trainings, workshops, and lectures on female hormones, fascia, and yoga and is part of the international Yoga Medicine® teaching and podcast team. She is based in Germany.

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