When I see them on TV they look muscular, slim and flat chested and I hear they stop having periods.
2007-03-02 04:57:23 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Very low body fat, less than about 11%, can cause enough hormonal disturbance that women have irregular periods or stop althogether. Rather than improving performance, this can lead to bone loss and serious problems like stress fractures.
I know a few professional endurance athletes who have become pregnant. They just were careful not to let their body fat get too low.
I don't know the physical reason for this, or if anyone has studied it, but all of them came back to their sport in a short time stronger and faster than before childbirth.
2007-03-02 05:58:34 · answer #1 · answered by silverbullet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of female athletes, such as Olympic gymnasts and figure skaters, do work out and diet to the point where they can hold off their period and keep their bodies from otherwise physically maturing. However, since women ovulate before their first period (about two weeks prior), working your body like that is not a reliable form of birth control, since you never really know if you'd menstruate.
2007-03-02 05:05:17 · answer #2 · answered by CrazyChick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure it's physically possible but they may have a clause in their contracts that say they cannot.....like male athelets cant participate in other sports or ride motorcycles...
2007-03-02 05:04:21 · answer #3 · answered by shady7979 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm sorry to assert yet nope. it style of sounds like further and extra youthful girls folk(18-30) I having illegitimate little ones conventional by potential of deadbeats. they don't make the hassle to get to comprehend all of us anymore, in basic terms meet on the information superhighway open legs on the 1st date, all without understanding their final call.
2016-10-17 02:46:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably not, most of them are amennhoric, and I have experienced thast when I was doing some hardcore working out for years... I thought I'd burned my ovaries away, and most of them do
2007-03-02 05:10:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard that women who have an extremely low body fat risk messing up their menstrual cycle.
But I'm sure that it's still possible...especially when they gain some body fat again.
2007-03-02 05:06:59 · answer #6 · answered by Julio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most women athletes have irregular peroids or peroids with much greater length in between. but it is not impossible for them to get pregnant.
2007-03-02 05:01:54 · answer #7 · answered by vospire s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-03-02 05:00:48 · answer #8 · answered by binary sunset 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they look like that because most of them are men
2007-03-02 05:02:13 · answer #9 · answered by JAMES THE PUNISHER 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
why not
2007-03-02 05:00:15 · answer #10 · answered by doctor asho 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋