Comments on: High School Girls and Running http://completerunning.com/archives/2006/09/28/high-school-girls-and-running/ Runner's Information & Advice Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:57:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: 21stCenturyMomhttp://completerunning.com/archives/2006/09/28/high-school-girls-and-running/comment-page-1/#comment-3183 21stCenturyMom Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:50:52 +0000 http://completerunning.com/archives/2006/09/28/high-school-girls-and-running/#comment-3183 Okay - I read the article and I get it now. It isn't the sport - it's the coaches. If gaining weight puts new demands on the body then why not say, "these girls need to put more effort into the sport and augment running with weight training". You can't tell me that weight training wouldn't allow these girls to get their musculature to catch up with their weight. The eating disorders are not from running - they are from stupid coaches telling the girls to lose weight. So that's it. All done. Okay – I read the article and I get it now. It isn’t the sport – it’s the coaches. If gaining weight puts new demands on the body then why not say, “these girls need to put more effort into the sport and augment running with weight training”. You can’t tell me that weight training wouldn’t allow these girls to get their musculature to catch up with their weight.

The eating disorders are not from running – they are from stupid coaches telling the girls to lose weight.

So that’s it. All done.

]]> By: 21stCenturyMomhttp://completerunning.com/archives/2006/09/28/high-school-girls-and-running/comment-page-1/#comment-3182 21stCenturyMom Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:41:48 +0000 http://completerunning.com/archives/2006/09/28/high-school-girls-and-running/#comment-3182 That's sort of like saying "getting boobs makes you hate your body" or something weird like that. I don't think so. Kids in general go through big changes in puberty. Do 80% of girls who play soccer 'level off'? I don't think so. So yes that was food for thought and the thought I have is that the article is misinformed and totally full of poop. Just another solid reason why girls don't like sports - as if. I especially like the 'don't do anything advice'. If this were really a problem we would most certainly want to do something to help those girls avoid eating disorders and to keep them healthy. Clearly the person who wrote that has some other agenda. OMG- the more I write the more aggravated I get. What consequences is this guy talking about? AARRRGGHHH!!! Enough. That’s sort of like saying “getting boobs makes you hate your body” or something weird like that. I don’t think so. Kids in general go through big changes in puberty.

Do 80% of girls who play soccer ‘level off’? I don’t think so. So yes that was food for thought and the thought I have is that the article is misinformed and totally full of poop. Just another solid reason why girls don’t like sports – as if. I especially like the ‘don’t do anything advice’. If this were really a problem we would most certainly want to do something to help those girls avoid eating disorders and to keep them healthy. Clearly the person who wrote that has some other agenda.

OMG- the more I write the more aggravated I get. What consequences is this guy talking about? AARRRGGHHH!!! Enough.

]]> By: Dorihttp://completerunning.com/archives/2006/09/28/high-school-girls-and-running/comment-page-1/#comment-3176 Dori Sat, 30 Sep 2006 04:28:07 +0000 http://completerunning.com/archives/2006/09/28/high-school-girls-and-running/#comment-3176 I'm sorry, but it sounds like a load of crap. Running causes eating disorders in high school girls? I think the culprit of e.d. is more likely to be television, movies, advertising, bombarding girls with the message that the only attractive girls are ones that are shaped like boys. Rosie O'Donald nailed it a few years ago after the Oscars when she said never had she seen so much chest and so little cleavage. Run, Girls, Run. I’m sorry, but it sounds like a load of crap. Running causes eating disorders in high school girls? I think the culprit of e.d. is more likely to be television, movies, advertising, bombarding girls with the message that the only attractive girls are ones that are shaped like boys. Rosie O’Donald nailed it a few years ago after the Oscars when she said never had she seen so much chest and so little cleavage. Run, Girls, Run.

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