STUDIES
Want to stay up to date on the latest press releases and news about studies related to women's sports? Scroll below to view all women’s sports studies.-
June 29, 2022
A third of women won’t exercise because of how their skin looks, a new study finds
From knowing what to do at the gym to training on your own and trying to meet difficult goals, there are many things that can put you off when getting started. While many of these things are easy enough to overcome and your nerves will almost certainly subside within the...
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June 24, 2022
New study explains why you can’t eat after a hard run
There is evidence to suggest that appetite may be suppressed after a hard workout, due to alterations in hunger hormones and metabolism. In a recent study in Nature, researchers at Stanford University, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and elsewhere identified a metabolite molecule that’s released into the blood during...
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June 21, 2022
Women Have Stronger Immune Systems: Why That’s Not Always a Good Thing
Experts say women’s immune systems have a stronger initial response to most illnesses. However, they note the strong response can cause some long-term health issues, including the development of autoimmune diseases. They say the differences in immune systems can be partly attributed to hormones and chromosomes. They say this information could help...
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June 21, 2022
Which Women’s Sports Benefited The Most From Title IX?
The first half-century of Title IX — 1972’s gender-equality law that banned sex-based discrimination in federally funded educational institutions — saw women’s sports in America undergo a period of profound growth and evolution. Five Thirty Eight
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June 15, 2022
The best exercise time is different for men and women, study finds
A new study finds there are optimal times of day for achieving specific goals with exercise. The research shows that for women, in particular, exercising in the morning or evening produces different results. The study also includes the effect of exercise times on an individual’s mood. Medical News Today
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June 8, 2022
Can wellness apps grow up to be medical devices?
Several startups, including January AI, Signos, Levels Health and Supersapiens, swear that continuously monitoring your blood sugar levels will lead to better health and might even help you slim down. But to get the promised results, those companies need to connect to FDA-approved medical devices to know how a person’s...
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June 7, 2022
The Female College Sports Fan: Who is She?
An interesting report from LEARFIELD, entitled “Intercollegiate Fan Pulse Report: Empowering the Influence of the Female Fan,” highlights the empowering influence of female fans in collegiate athletics and exactly how to focus marketing efforts to engage women more than ever before. BCS
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June 2, 2022
Coffee Drinking Linked to Lower Mortality Risk, New Study Finds
The research found that those who drank moderate amounts of coffee, even with a little sugar, were up to 30 percent less likely to die during the study period than those who didn’t drink coffee. NY Times (paywall)
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May 24, 2022
Can Exercise Help Make Therapy More Effective? A Pair of Studies Suggests It Might
For many people, exercise is a whole lot more than just a way to make physical progress. And if you’ve been running for awhile, you’ve probably read about (or experienced) the many ways exercise can benefit your mental health. It doesn’t take all day to reap the benefits of a...
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May 18, 2022
Are water stations useless for 5Ks and 10Ks?
After participating in Toronto’s Sporting Life 10K a couple of weeks ago, I was curious to know how many of the top 50 runners grabbed water at 8 km. My friend who was working the water station told me zero–no takers. Obviously, races are required to have water stations, but...
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May 18, 2022
Why Running at Night Feels Harder
The new study, published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology, had 15 volunteers do a series of ten-minute treadmill walks in four conditions: with and without a 56-pound pack, and with and without a blindfold on. The treadmill was set at a comfortable pace of around 30 minutes per...
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May 17, 2022
What We Know (And Don’t Know) About Menstruation and Endurance Running
This article serves as a reference, covering what we people currently know about menstruation, the hormones involved, the impact they may or may not have on performance, and what practical habits women can bring into training and racing of all menstruating friends, athletes, and loved ones. It helps optimize running...
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May 12, 2022
For Runners, Fertility Often Has a Complicated Relationship with the Sport They Love
“Some research shows exercise is important for overall health and wellbeing—including fertility—but other research warns against exercise negatively impacting fertility,” says Dr. Lora Shahine, reproductive endocrinologist at Pacific NW Fertility in Seattle and host of the Baby or Bust podcast. Womens Running
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May 6, 2022
Skin Spews Telltale Gases for Health Trackers to Tap Into
Scientists are doing experiments to see whether sensors might be added to wearables to tell us even more about our health based on gases released by our skin. WebMD
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May 4, 2022
New study finds exercise improves heart health even more for those with anxiety and depression
A new study from the American College of Cardiology suggests that regular exercise can decrease the likelihood of heart complications by 22 per cent in individuals with anxiety and depression, compared to 10 per cent in those who don’t. Put simply, exercise seems to have stronger benefits for the heart...
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May 2, 2022
Scientists say they have nailed down the ideal amount of sleep in middle and old age
New research has found that around seven hours of sleep is the ideal night's rest, with insufficient and excessive sleep associated with a reduced ability to pay attention, remember and learn new things, solve problems and make decisions. CNN
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April 19, 2022
What Americans Keep Getting Wrong About Exercise
In 2009, New York Times writer Gretchen Reynolds discovered something big: Readers loved to click on stories about tiny increments of exercise. That June, Reynolds wrote her first story about single-digit high-intensity interval training, or HIIT. The piece, titled “Can You Get Fit in Six Minutes a Week?,” described a study...
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April 18, 2022
There’s New Data on How Your Arm Swing Affects Running
You can’t run fast without using your arms—or can you? Scientists have had a hard time agreeing on exactly why we swing our arms, and whether there are specific ways we can use our arms to speed ourselves up. The latest addition to a century’s worth of often conflicting research...
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April 14, 2022
It doesn’t take a lot of exercise to fight depression, study says
The meta-analysis, published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, looked at 15 studies involving over 190,000 people to determine how much exercise was needed to reduce depression. Adults who did activities equivalent to 1.25 hours of brisk walking per week had an 18% lower risk of depression compared with those who...
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April 6, 2022
Is 30 Minutes of Exercise a Day Enough?
Science says you may need less exercise than you think to live a long and healthy life. In general, according to her research and other studies, the more active we are, well beyond 30 minutes a day, the more our risks of chronic diseases drop and the longer our lives...
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April 5, 2022
How This Simple Breathing Exercise May Improve Your Endurance
When you’re working out, you may be neglecting one group of muscles that can be key to your performance: those that help you breathe. New research presented at the American Physiological Society annual meeting at Experimental Biology 2022 finds the benefits of certain muscles that control our breathing may extend...
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March 29, 2022
ASICS Experiment Reveals Just One Week of Physical Inactivity Has a Similar Impact as a Week of Broken Sleep on Our State of Mind
Today, the impact of physical inactivity on our mental state has been revealed for the first time in the Mind Racei – an ASICS experiment in which regular exercisers paused their normal fitness routines for one week. The impact on their state of mind was found to be similar to...
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March 24, 2022
Study: stay fit to prevent Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s and other dementias affect more than 740,000 Canadians, and unfortunately, science has not yet found a cure for the debilitating disease. The absence of an effective treatment puts even greater emphasis on the importance of prevention, and recent research shows that runners are already giving themselves a leg-up. Canadian...
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March 15, 2022
Caffeine, beets and beta-alanine: do they work for female runners?
Caffeine, beets and beta-alanine have been widely accepted as legal performance aids in the running community, but is this true for everyone? Most of the research conducted on these supplements has been done with male subjects, leaving their efficacy in women up for debate. Recently, a team of researchers reviewed...
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March 13, 2022
Why women are gaining on men when it comes to extreme endurance events
In a 2020 study on more than 15,400 ultra events — longer than a 26.2-mile marathon — statisticians found men were faster than women less than 1% of the time in 100-mile races. In distances greater than 195 miles, women were 0.6% faster than men. ADN
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