Becoming Bikini Bodybuilders

Challenges and Rewards of Ordinary Women Stepping on Stage

Nina Michalikova (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-0223-5 (ISBN)

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This book offers an insight into the bikini category of natural female bodybuilding by revealing benefits and challenges encountered and experienced by ordinary women who decide to become bikini bodybuilders.

Becoming Bikini Bodybuilders: Challenges and Rewards of Ordinary Women Stepping on Stage offers an insight into the bikini category of natural female bodybuilding by revealing benefits and challenges experienced by ordinary women who decide to become bikini bodybuilders. Nina Michalikova challenges prevailing misconceptions and shows that not all female athletes follow extreme training and dietary measures for prolonged periods of time to achieve their desired physique. By highlighting the positive aspects of bikini bodybuilding, this book breaks the stereotypes of a “typical bikini competitor” as a hyper-sexualized woman with underlying health issues. In addition to studying a little understood population of bikini athletes, the study uses an innovative methodology to examine the topic.

Nina Michalikova received her PhD in sociology from Texas Woman’s University in 2013 and is a professor of sociology at the University of Central Oklahoma.

Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. Personal Life
Chapter 2. Social Life
Chapter 3. Professional Life
Chapter 4. Diet
Chapter 5. Training
Chapter 6. Drugs and Supplements
Chapter 7. Competing
Chapter 8. Expenses
Chapter 9. Health
Conclusion
References
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	05.10.2023
Zusatzinfo	16 b/w illustrations;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 236 mm
Gewicht	581 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-6669-0223-3 / 1666902233
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-0223-5 / 9781666902235
Zustand	Neuware