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Sex Hormones, Exercise and Women

Scientific and Clinical Aspects

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Editors:
  1. Anthony C. Hackney

    1. Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

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  • Offers a comprehensive synthesis of the research on how the reproductive endocrine system affects female exercise ability
  • Presents unique overview of how oral contraceptives influence the capacity to exercise in women
  • Addresses the physiology and psychology behind the endocrine-female exercise interplay, placing them in context for use by researchers as well as clinicians who work with women during injury rehabilitation or development of exercise training programs
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. The Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Ovarian Axis and Oral Contraceptives: Regulation and Function

    • Hope C. Davis, Anthony C. Hackney
    Pages 1-17

  3. Sex Hormones and Their Impact on the Ventilatory Responses to Exercise and the Environment

    • Joseph W. Duke
    Pages 19-34

  4. Sex Hormones and Substrate Metabolism During Endurance Exercise

    • Laurie Isacco, Nathalie Boisseau
    Pages 35-58

  5. Sex Hormone Effects on the Nervous System and their Impact on Muscle Strength and Motor Performance in Women

    • Matthew S. Tenan
    Pages 59-70

  6. Estrogen and Menopause: Muscle Damage, Repair and Function in Females

    • Peter M. Tiidus
    Pages 71-85

  7. Nutritional Strategies and Sex Hormone Interactions in Women

    • Nancy J. Rehrer, Rebecca T. McLay-Cooke, Stacy T. Sims
    Pages 87-112

  8. The Effect of Sex Hormones on Ligament Structure, Joint Stability and ACL Injury Risk

    • Sandra J. Shultz
    Pages 113-138

  9. Sex Hormones and Physical Activity in Women: An Evolutionary Framework

    • Ann E. Caldwell, Paul L. Hooper
    Pages 139-149

  10. Sex Hormones and Environmental Factors Affecting Exercise

    • Megan M. Wenner, Nina S. Stachenfeld
    Pages 151-170

  11. Exercise, Depression-Anxiety Disorders and Sex Hormones

    • Shannon K. Crowley
    Pages 171-191

  12. Stress Reactivity and Exercise in Women

    • Tinna Traustadóttir
    Pages 193-208

  13. Sex Hormones, Cancer and Exercise Training in Women

    • Kristin L. Campbell
    Pages 209-225

  14. The Effects of Acute Exercise on Physiological Sexual Arousal in Women

    • Cindy M. Meston, Amelia M. Stanton
    Pages 227-241

  15. Sex Hormones, Menstrual Cycle and Resistance Exercise

    • Yuki Nakamura, Katsuji Aizawa
    Pages 243-256

  16. Effects of Sex Hormones and Exercise on Adipose Tissue

    • Victoria J. Vieira-Potter
    Pages 257-284

  17. Exercise in Menopausal Women

    • Monica D. Prakash, Lily Stojanovska, Kulmira Nurgali, Vasso Apostolopoulos
    Pages 285-307

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 309-315
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About this book

It is well-established, through extensive peer-reviewed published research, that physical activity and exercise training can impact the reproductive endocrine system of women.  This ground-breaking, comprehensive title presents a range of unique insights into the opposite question: how the reproductive endocrine system of women affects their exercise ability.  More precisely, the thematic question explored in this work is: if exercise affects reproductive hormones, conversely then could the reproductive hormones have physiological effects unrelated to reproduction that influence the capacity of women to exercise?  In exploring this question, the goal is to better understand the unique physiology of women and whether female sex hormones might account for some of the variance in physiological performance between amenorrheic and eumenorrheic women, andwithin women across the age span as they experience menarche to menopause.  Sex Hormones, Exercise and Women: Scientific and Clinical Aspects synthesizes the research by exploring the physiology and psychology behind these occurrences. This novel title will not only be of interest to researchers, exercise scientists, graduate students, and clinicians; it will also serve as a source of valuable information for female athletes and their trainers in the context of preparing for competitions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

    Anthony C. Hackney

About the editor

Anthony C. Hackney, PhD, DSc
Department of Nutrition; Department of Exercise & Sport Science
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC, US

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sex Hormones, Exercise and Women

  • Book Subtitle: Scientific and Clinical Aspects

  • Editors: Anthony C. Hackney

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44558-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83079-7Published: 05 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44558-8Published: 09 November 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 315

  • Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Endocrinology, Sports Medicine, Cardiology, Gynecology

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