Many sportswomen plateau in the 18-22 age bracket as their bodies focus on building fertility and retaining fat, before hitting their sporting prime in their mid-twenties – and yet they are often hastily written off or pressured into losing weight during this natural plateau. Here she cites research showing that US and UK schoolgirls drop out of sport at far higher rates than boys, despite all its benefits, often due to self-consciousness around puberty and periods.Īs Fleshman moves on to her ups and downs as a college athlete, she looks at how the sports world often ignores “the female performance wave”. She writes with clarity and emotion about her love of running as a child, her pride in impressing her father, and how her sporting talent made her “one of the boys”. More broadly, it is an inspiring book about sportswomen’s bodies: the things those bodies can achieve, the growth patterns and rhythms that they have, and the pressures put on them to perform just like men’s bodies (while also looking ‘beautiful’).įleshman intersperses her personal story with wider observations of how the sports industry treats women. Lauren Fleshman’s new book, Good for a Girl, is a memoir of her career as a professional athlete and coach in the USA.
Book review: Good for a Girl by Lauren Fleshman
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