We don’t see many muscular women in popular culture – and the display of much heavier and obviously stronger female bodies can be overwhelming or shocking. Professional tennis playing sisters Serena ...

In Western culture, women’s ideal body shape is very thin and unsurprisingly, many women exercise primarily to lose weight. In this context, muscularity is often associated with masculinity and thus, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images; Sports Illustrated; A24; OpenAI; Sam Lee for TomboyX American rugby sensation Ilona Maher, was an inspired choice to ...

In an earlier blog (Feminine Physique, November 26, 2014) I discussed the findings from this research. Women’s bodybuilding is no longer only for women who wish to build an extreme amount of muscle ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether peripheral muscle strength is significantly different between lean and obese women controlled for age and physical activity, using an allometric approach. DESIGN: ...

As strange as this sounds this week of all weeks in sports, there was a time when muscles on women were neither preferred nor celebrated. A very long time, actually. Back before Title IX, and even in ...