The Female Body

10 question quiz on completion of all modules, awarded a certificate with 10 CIMSPA CPD points.

Learning Objectives:

• Better understand the female body’s physiological and psychological requirements within sport and exercise;
• Develop awareness of the barriers and challenges females face in participating and performing in different sporting environments;
• Instinctively know how to support females, within your skill set, to keep her exercising, training and competing;
• Be braver and stronger in your conversations with active females as you support her brilliantly in sport and exercise;
• Recognise the signs of underperformance, underfueling and underconfidence;
• Know how to broach sensitive topics and when to signpost to professional help;
• Appreciate the broad landscape of female health
• Know when and where to access reliable information;
• Support females in developing good technique so she can reduce her risk of injury;
• Support females as they expand their understanding their bodies and track their hormone health;
• Recognise and implement strategies that’ll enhance a female’s experience in sport and exercise.

• Women in sport - The opening module sets the ‘why’ of the whole course. It highlights gender gaps in data, opportunity and performance. It focuses on the importance of the female body and shows how dismissing the female experience can limit her performance and underserve her potential.
• Menstrual cycle and performance - In this comprehensive guide to the menstrual cycle we explain how it regulates, affects and impacts active women. This hugely practical module develops coaches’ understanding so you can start conversations and integrate effective new strategies – such as cycle tracking – into your work.
• Kit for female bodies - This module highlights how kit, which should enable enjoyment, participation and performance, can be a massive barrier to all of the above. Poor kit choices can cause shame, pain, and disillusionment among active women. So let us guide you through kit, and the game-changer that is the sports bra.
• Nutrition for active women - Good fuel is essential and this module offers nutrition advice tailored to active females’ physiology. Here we guide coaches through the complex ways women relate to food and their bodies, with actionable ways you, the coach, can promote positivity and body-confidence.
• Injury risk & resilience - This module explores female-specific injury risks with successful practical prevention strategies you can embrace. We cover the need to design new sporting environments to further reduce risk and that, without action, one of women’s most precious assets – the brain – is especially vulnerable.
• Pelvic health in active women - An underappreciated body nucleus, this module offers vital and liberating information about women’s bladders, bowels and pelvic floors. This is how to coach women to engage their pelvic floors and recognise risks. And how you can incorporate pelvic exercise effectively in your work.
• Environment for active women - Using all information, ideas and reflection from previous modules, number 7 brings it all together. This is everything: culture and kit, mind and body, menstrual cycles, injury and pelvic floors. This is confidence to effectively support female athletes and Act Braver in all future conversations.

This course is aimed at anyone who trains and coaches women. Content has been carefully created to be accessible to all – regardless of current experience or knowledge. The only prerequisite is that learners are over 16 years old.

With the exponential rise in women's sport and the interest that organisations have to close the gender gaps this course will help with career progression through:

• Retaining female talent in the workforce - because by completing this course they will have a better understanding of their own bodies and will be able to apply this learning to themselves so that they are healthier.
• Anyone completing this course will be upskilled so that they can better serve the girls and women they work with - as teams, clubs and brands look to tailor their approach more to the needs and requirements of girls and women they will be looking for people who have this education and experience.
• These courses will enhance the learning that you have and be able to make you operate better when working with girls and women in sport and exercise.

This course helps all those working with women to better understand the female mind and body. We discuss myths, challenges and gaps in understanding. This is ground zero for raising awareness, slashing taboos and getting an edge in participation and performance.

This course starts you on the journey to greater understanding in female health and reversing generations of half-truths and biases. No guesswork, no egos, no taboos.