Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives Audiobook (Free)

Long-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, 2016

For too long culture has led us to trust that women and sport don’t mix. While perspiration and ‘fitspiration’ haven’t been so sizzling hot, sport continues to be stubbornly ensemble as unfeminine.

But why should sport and exercise be so gendered? What happened towards the carefree versions of ourselves, the girls who dared to climb trees, cartwheel across playgrounds or run-down hills so fast we laughed until we couldn’t inhale? about Eat Perspiration Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives When did we reduce our sense of fun, and what else do we drop along with it?

Within a brave, funny and personal call to arms, Anna Kessel carries out an extremely timely health check up on the country and women’s involvement in sport. In her exploration of main taboos, including body dysmorphia, intervals, miscarriage, sex and the gender pay space, Kessel discovers how sport and workout play and essential role in every sphere of our contemporary lives.

Sharing the tales of a fascinating selection of women – from Sporty Spice conquering the music world within a shell suit to mums who box and breastfeed – Eat Sweat Play may be the inspirational story of how women are finally reclaiming sport, and by extension their have body, for themselves