Gold Medal for Pregnancy
Normally when we think of pregnancy, we think of a time that involves a lot of slow moving and waddling, feeling tired and sick, a bit of a struggle even. But as The Times Online recently reported, the experience of pregnancy can actually help women as athletes.
Apparently labor pains and the experience of childbirth can help a woman overcome nearly anything on the court or field.
Athletes such as distance runners Paula Radcliffe and Liz McColgan and Scottish golfer Catriona Matthew, and more recently tennis player Kim Clijsters, have shown an astounding athletic performance shortly after giving birth. The Times notes that "all claim that the demands of pregnancy and childbirth made them stronger of body and more willful of mind, suggesting that in some way the rigours of the process heightened their athletic powers."
Studies have shown varied results as to the number of women who experience the "motherhood effect.
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