Expanding Our Awareness of Female Performance Physiology and How it Shines in the Mountains - Online Classroom

6:00-7:30pm PST via Zoom Meeting
Meeting link will be sent to registered attendees the day of the session.

In the last few years, exercise science research focused solely on the female physiology has increased by at least 50% – from 4-6% of the exercise science literature. The growth is exciting–but this proportionally dismal amount of research continues to make it difficult to know how to train as a female athlete. What do you do with popular training recommendations if your physiology has not been considered? In this session we will discuss some of the key differences and some big picture changes to consider for the female-bodied athlete; we will look at monitoring tools to personalize training methods; and we will take a look at the even more limited research emerging for athletes in peri- and post-menopause.

Seminar Notes

This presentation will encourage attendees to speak up throughout the presentation and be interactive with prompting discussion questions interspersed within lecture segments. Breakout rooms will be used.

PRESENTER

Lyra Pierotti is a coach, educator, and mountain guide. She is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, a Functional Range Conditioning Mobility Specialist, has trained with the Postural Restoration Institute and studied movement through Anatomy Trains. In the realm of guiding mountains, Lyra is an IFMGA Internationally Licensed Mountain Guide (number 208 in the States, and the 18th American woman to achieve this certification). She is also an avalanche educator, training both professionals and recreationalists through her work with the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education (AIARE). 

Some of her favorite work tangents have included technical field support for scientists in Antarctica, and teaching mountaineering skills to high school girls on a science-meets-mountaineering field program in Alaska. 

Lyra’s passion centers around helping her clients and students use their bodies and minds as wisely and fully as they can to become the athletes and leaders they desire to be, in her favorite setting: The mountains.