Roar
Stacy T. Sims (with Selene Yeager) · 2016
Roar (2016) is a book by Stacy T. Sims (with Selene Yeager) on Women's health / female physiology. Exercise physiologist Stacy Sims argues that "women are not small men": because most sports science was built on male subjects, women need hormone-aware protocols for fueling, hydration, and training across every life stage.
The book that refuses to let women train and eat like scaled-down men, and hands them their own physiological operating manual instead.
Two of the ideas you’ll keep
The Clif summary of Roar pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first two.
- "Women are not small men" is the load-bearing thesis: female physiology, not just smaller body size, demands different food, hydration, and training protocols, because most exercise science was built on male subjects and mis-scaled down.
- Treat the menstrual cycle as two functional states, not a day-by-day app: push high-intensity work in the low-hormone follicular phase, and manage the high-hormone luteal phase (higher core temp, more inflammation, protein catabolism, reduced carb access) with more protein and carbs.
The other 5 — and the full 11-minute summary — are in the app.
What’s inside: 9 chapters
The whole summary runs about 11 minutes, read or listened to.
- Women Are Not Small Men
- The Physiology Foundation: Two Bodies in One Month
- Training the Cycle: Effort Follows Hormones
- Fuel, Don't Fast
- Hydration: Drink to Hydrate, Eat to Fuel
- Lift Heavy, Sprint Hard, Recover Easy
- Life Stages: Pregnancy and Menopause
- Gut, Recovery, and the Environment
- The 2024 Revision: Contraception and Biohacking
Finish Roar tonight.
Read or listen to the full summary in about 11 minutes, then keep the ideas with a minute of review a day. Start with the 2-minute quiz — no card required.
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