Christine Yu, UP TO SPEED: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Zibby interviews award-winning sports and health journalist Christine Yu about her important new book, Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes. Christine describes how athletics are finally changing for women after decades of oversight and lack of research. She also discusses diet culture, body image, youth sports, sports bras, and menopause! Finally, she shares her best advice for aspiring authors.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
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1:03.4	Christine Yu is the author of Up to Speed, the Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes.
1:08.5	Christine is an award-winning journalist whose work focuses on the intersection
1:11.5	of sports science and women athletes. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post,
1:16.1	Time, Outside, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. And by the way,
1:20.4	she and I shared a mutual, really close friend who passed away, Stacey Sanders, who I write
1:26.1	about in bookends. And after we did this
1:28.3	podcast interview, she emailed me a whole bunch of pictures of when they went to boarding school
1:32.2	together, which just completely warmed my heart. Welcome, Christine. Thank you so much for coming
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