Annual Meeting session · 1.5 CECs

Female Performance: From Paper to Pitch, and Back Again

For the first time, the 2024 Paris Olympics will have similar numbers of female and male athletes.

About this course

However, there is a gulf in the scientific knowledge and resource afforded to females in comparison to

males. Female physiology is distinctly different to males, yet many practitioners deliver training

interventions without making considerations to the nuanced biological differences of women. This

course will deliver an evidence-based perspective of female performance from informed researchers

and practitioners in the field. It will cover the crucial factors relating to female-specific biology and how

this can be successfully translated to the field of play. Despite an inequality in the literature, there

remains a long history of research that can be used as a start point, if interpreted and applied diligently.

The course will also raise the importance of listening and learning from the real world to inform

research questions that translate scientific papers to performance success.

Delegates will have a greater understanding of sex differences and considerations around female biology that affect athletic performance. Importantly, how these learnings might be applied to females
Delegates will increase knowledge in the application of previous literature and how those findings can be translated to the field of play. Critically, delegates will understand how evidence-based practice and practiced-based evidence can be synergistically combined to drive research with impact
Delegates will have an appreciation for the need for applied research and have understand the strengths and limitations for field-based research