ROAR: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life Paperback – 5 July 2016

Loving this book - reassuring, empowering and very educational. There's a great balance of diligently-referenced theory with easy-to-implement practical advice and examples. The way it's written is friendly and informal but without any dumbing-down. You'll learn why apparently proven training or nutritional methods don't work for everyone and how to adapt how you exercise and eat week to week but also at different points in your life. Periodisation of training has led to great improvements in what people can get from their sport, but periodised training is normally arranged in sometimes arbitrary blocks of time. I suppose this book is about periodising your periodisation - getting body and training cycles to peak and trough together - excited to properly put it into practise!

Excellent book. Lots of useful bits to carry forward in my cycle training. Purchased the kindle version and then paper - wanted to highlight sections for ease of reference.Having been over trained by a male coach - I know what that feels like. Women are not small men - do not train or eat like them. Buy it.

This book is easy to read and has lots of practical advice.If you push your body hard for your sport or your work, there is much in this book to help you. I found there to be a good balance of advice, with explanations as to why.Useful for women of all ages, especially of reproductive age, or approaching or going through menopause.Thank you!

Great book explaining how women can best work with their bodies for maximum fitness gains rather than battling against them. Book clearly identifies different training and nutritional needs at different ages of adulthood. On a downside, it's not as easy to see tables on Kindle version, but this is a regular layout issue with Kindle format. There aren't any tables so it's not a major issue, the positives far outweigh this issue. Highly recommend ROAR for any woman wanting to get the most out of their training and improve their performance.

Would recommend, fabulous book 👍

This book is a revelation!! As a woman and athlete I finally feel understood and I finally see the mistakes I have been doing all these years with my body and my training. I am so grateful I came across this book! In this book you'll find science and knowledge on human body, sport and nutrition and the differences between women and men. I totally recommend this book!

I found a lot of the advice contained within the book and Dr Sims’ social media pages contradictory. In one of the chapters, she advises to go low carb for my particular body type, yet she advises on social media that low carb doesn’t work for women and that we require a high carb diet.I’ve questioned her on this and I’ve noticed others asking similar questions about different claims, but she ignores these questions and only responds to complimentary comments.She has more recently started responding to these comments by saying the book is a few years old and that we should pay for her course instead. If the book is out of date, then surely she needs to stop promoting and selling it since the out of date advice could impact our health?Secondly, unless you’re an athlete, you won’t find this book very useful as the advice tends to be very specific to high endurance athletes who require a lot of energy. I especially wouldn’t recommend this if you’re looking to lose weight.There is some good and interesting advice in there and it’s useful for any woman looking to understand her own body, which I wish was common knowledge. I very much appreciate her experience and I admire the fact that she has chosen to focus on women’s research when it has been neglected due to women being considered an ‘anomaly’.Overall, I find it difficult to recommend the book as I feel that the author isn’t confident in some of the claims, however it is an interesting read if you’re looking for some basic information. If you do buy the book, take everything with a pinch of salt, do some extra research, and do consider whether the advice is right for your goals and lifestyle.

Absolutely fantastic book. I am no way an athlete but try to lead an active life to enhance fitness and combat age related issues. This advice far out ways any advice I have ever read! Why? It’s tailored to me an active female. Wish I had found this sooner.