Do You Still Worry about the Health

In fact, if you were a female runner, even you did not change the eating habit, your weight would be lost and your waist would become thin. Just as it pointed out in chapter VI, most women said that in their first year of running, they lost ten pounds or even more. Not only that, but also they did not feel uncomfortable while running and need not to run with the help of willpower. Due to running, people did not feel hungry than usual. After running for several months, Kathleen Lance wrote in the book "Running For Fitness", she had a strange feeling that as if the body was changed fully when she put on the clothes.
Most women said that after taking part in running, the benefits they got was that they did not feel difficult and the lives were more pleasant and more relaxed. The words of Dr. Elliott indicated many women's statement. The illness of her body had disappeared after running. The size of her clothes was No. 14 in the past and now it was No.10. Her pulse slowed down to 45~50 from 70~75 per minute. In the past five years, she did not have a migraine and also did not have constipation. If something had changed, the situation was entirely the opposite. She did not suffer from the insomnia and she would fell asleep when she lay down.
Kenneth Cooper who was one of the founders of running might appreciate the benefits of running for women. He said in the book "New Aerobic Study", women who had abdominal pain would feel uncomfortable to run. Only based on the common sense, they should pause in those days. Not all the women agreed with this view. Natalie Brown wrote in the book "Jogger", in menstrual period, and she got two advantages when she was running. One was the stomachache was reduced, it might because the body was better than before. The other was that the pain would disappear if you ran at the time that the abdominal pain was specially serious.
The women's head coach Magee Al Boom of Indiana University believed that, most of the women who participate in running felt better in menstrual period. She also said that, the body were not changed much in menstrual period. The certain stages of the period made women have a state of engaging in the effective activities. But, in everyday activities, this difference was so small that it could not be found. You should be able to participate in athletics at any stage of menstrual period.
There were some benefits of running: The excess calories and fat were consumed by running. Generally speaking, compared with the women who lack of exercise, the women who took part in sports energetically would be low 54% to have heart disease. Running could relieve the premenstrual syndrome for women. The premenstrual syndrome would be relieved effectively due to the continuous aerobic exercise. These women who were enthusiasm for doing exercises were rarely troubled by the premenstrual syndrome and dysmenorrhea. Reducing these problems could make women relaxed and pleasure. Therefore, to participate in sports was significant to women's health.