Title: Roar
Author: Dr. Stacy T. Sims
Rating Out of 5: 3 (On the fence about this one)
My Bookshelves: Non-fiction, Sport, Women’s health
Pace: Slow
Format: eBook, Non-fictional text
Year: 2016

I bought this book because I really loved a podcast that Dr. Stacy Sims spoke in. Plus, I love my sport and I’ve been wanting to train with my cycles and hormones for a long time. I’m normally a big fan of non-fictional texts that partake wisdom to me. And I’m normally happy to read them over a period of months. But I found Roar just a little bit difficult to get through.

I was hoping for a much broader focus of how women can work with their hormones and cycles to optimise their training. However, I found that Sims really focused in on a very small niche of individuals. In fact, even as someone who spends a ridiculous amount of time training, and training intensely, I found that a lot of this information was for those athletes who are full-time athletes. Not people who just want to harness their biology to improve their skills and fitness.

Reading Roar at a time when I was recovering from having two children in two years, and the whole body-image issues that come along with it, may not have been the best of ideas. I actually found that I had to put this to the side for a little while just because I found it to be a little triggering. Primarily because I can’t actually choose to eat healthy some days, it can often be a choice of eating or not due to exhaustion and the insanity of having young children.

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