TRAINING »How to recover from injury WOMEN’S TRAINING
LAUREN DRINKWATER
Lauren is a certified advanced personal trainer and group exercise instructor, specialising in ante- and postnatal fitness. mumfitwonder.com
If you’re someone who enjoys fitness and being active, nothing quite prepares you for when an injury strikes. You’ve invested time and effort into getting fitter, healthier, stronger, and now you’re back to where you started.
Whether you’re training for an event or you’re sticking to a regular exercise regime, it can be soul destroying to have to start from scratch, and, annoyingly, this is something women are more likely to go through than men.
According to research, some injuries (like stress fractures and injuries surrounding the knee cap and anterior cruciate ligament) are up to six times more common among women. Factors which play a part in thisathlete triad’ - an interrelationship of menstrual dysfunction, low energy availability (with or without an eating disorder), and decreased bone mineral density. If left too long without treatment, it can increase the risk of stress fractures.
