Hey Ladies!!

Two disparate articles I read recently got me thinking.  The first was an article from the New York Times blog, where a physiologist explained that most of the research done on "athletes" failed to include female participants.  Thus, some of the wide-sweeping claims we hold as fact may only be true for HALF OF THE POPULATION!  

Researchers were surprised to discover that women respond to carbo-loading and protein intake after a workout differently than men.  More surprising is how many of these studies failed to include female participants.

While working on my undergraduate degree I attended a lecture by psychologist Carole Gilligan, author of In a Different Voice.  Gilligan observed that prior to 1982 there was a profound absence of women in medical and psychological studies that defined our view of what is a human being. 

Watch the following interview with Carole Gilligan about her research.

Many are surprised to discover that more women than men do CrossFit.  Knowing much of the research has ignored women, we want to know, WHY DO YOU DO CROSSFIT? More importantly, WHAT DO YOU WISH CROSSFIT MOUNT OLYMPUS DID OR DIDN'T DO?