{"id":84907,"date":"2018-11-19T06:44:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T14:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/first-ever-all-female-antarctic-expedition-busts-womens-endurance-myth"},"modified":"2018-11-19T06:44:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T14:44:01","slug":"first-ever-all-female-antarctic-expedition-busts-womens-endurance-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/first-ever-all-female-antarctic-expedition-busts-womens-endurance-myth","title":{"rendered":"First-Ever All-Female Antarctic Expedition Busts Women\u2019s Endurance Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-ever-all-female-antarctic-expedition-busts-womens-endurance-myth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Women who trekked across Antarctica in the first-ever all-female expedition broke more than gender norms \u2014 they also busted the gender myth that, when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/53964-extreme-exercise-linked-to-atrial-fibrillation.html\">extreme endurance exercise<\/a>, women are weaker than men.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry men, that\u2019s not the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur findings contain some potentially myth-busting data on the impact of extreme physical activity on women,\u201d lead study author Dr. Robert Gifford, of the University of Edinburgh\u2019s Centre for Cardiovascular Science, said in a statement. \u201cWe have shown that with appropriate training and preparation, many of the previously reported negative health effects [of extreme exercise on women] can be avoided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64111-women-extreme-endurance-exercise-gender-myth.html\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64111-women-extreme-endurance-ex...-myth.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women who trekked across Antarctica in the first-ever all-female expedition broke more than gender norms \u2014 they also busted the gender myth that, when it comes to extreme endurance exercise, women are weaker than men. Sorry men, that\u2019s not the case. \u201cOur findings contain some potentially myth-busting data on the impact of extreme physical activity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}