Episode 462: Christine Yu – Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Christine Yu is an award winning journalist who writes about sports science and health. She has a new book coming out called Up to Speed, the Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes.
She is a really well-known journalist. She has been featured in The Washington Post, Outside Magazine, Runner’s World, Family Circle, Self, Eating Well, ESPNW, and the list goes on.
She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and her two sons.
We talk about kids and athletics, what has not been researched enough in female athletics, history of female sport, and more!
What we talked about:
4:15- The panel that she held at the Boston Marathon
7:00- Introduction to Christine
10:20- Raising a family in NYC
14:05- History of women in sport
20:00- The role that our menstrual cycle plays on sport performance
27:00- Getting the message out to young female athletes
31:20- Concussions in female sports
37:00 – Specializing in sport
47:40- Representation of women in sports science research
52:45- Physiology of the female body
59:10- Writing her book
1:05:00- End of podcast questions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Sandy Boy Productions Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:18.1 | Hey everybody, welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Hein. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm your host Lindsay, thanks for being here today. |
| 0:26.5 | Hope you're all recovering from the Boston Marathon Weekend |
| 0:29.9 | and if you were there, congratulations for everybody who completed the race or started the race. |
| 0:36.0 | I had a lot of fun over the weekend with Destination Marathon's doing a live show. |
| 0:42.3 | And actually if you are a supporter of my personal Patreon page, patreon.com slash |
| 0:47.5 | Lindsay Hein, you can grab access to that live show I did with Stephru Smolley Huddle |
| 0:53.3 | and Wesley Corrier, who is the 2012 Boston Marathon Champion. |
| 0:58.4 | Wesley I met at the Chicago Marathon Expo last fall and he is hilarious and also does incredible work |
| 1:07.8 | with the Kenyan Kids Foundation that he founded with his wife Helping Provide Education and Care for Kids |
| 1:14.4 | in his home country of Kenya. |
| 1:16.2 | So anyway, the three of them on stage together were a really good time. |
| 1:19.4 | And that's live now at patreon.com slash Lindsay Hein. |
| 1:23.6 | Alright, my guest today is Christine Yu, who is an award-winning journalist. |
| 1:29.6 | She writes about sports, science and health and she has a new book coming out called Up to Speed, |
| 1:35.4 | the groundbreaking science of women athletes. |
| 1:38.8 | This book is a long time coming. |
| 1:40.6 | It's about time someone wrote this book and I'm so glad Christine did and I loved getting |
| 1:45.3 | to know her over this conversation. |
| 1:48.6 | She is a really well-known journalist. |
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